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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 2424. NOTES ON SMITH, COTTON, BURNET. LAMAR [Richmond? Texas, 184- ?l - Daniel W. Smith; merchant at Natchitoches; afterwards Consul at Matamoras John Cotton-an early adventurer among the Comanchees with Judge Burnet- In 1839 they met at my house in Houston after a separation of many years- Judge Burnet came to Texas in 1818- spent 18 months in the upper region of the Colorado- Settled in the Country as an Emigrant in 1826-awhile at Sanfillippi; and in 1831 settled at his present resi- dence near Lynchburg- The Sawmill at that place was built the same year by Burnet and Capt Norman Hurd- [Endorsed :] Burnet- Smith the Consul at Matamoras &C John· Cotton-
No. 2427. MEXICANS WHO FELL IN THE ALAMO. AGUS- TIN BARRERA
[San Antonio, Texas, 184- ?]' [faded] Losoya f?l Andres Moras [ ?]
Carlos Despalier Antonio Padillo Gregorio Espinosa [ ?]
The foregoing· were imprisoned and fell (during the storming of the Alamo) fighting for their liberty in the . [faded] whose names are not recorded on the monument erected to the memory of those who [faded] perish with Travis and others when the Alamo feU' [AGUSTIN BARRERA ?l [Added.in Lamar's hand:] Z. M. P. French former clerk of Lagrange- J as. B. Ravis lived on the Trinity murdered Flacco for his horses in the fall of 1842 after Summerfield's campaign. He and Flacco were- taking a cavayard of horses to Sanantonio jointly, and to get the whole- profits of the hole of the horses he shot Fiacco while he was sleeping; [Endorsed:] Names of some Mexicans who fell in the Alamo, St. Antonio Obtained from Mr. Barrera who saw them, when dead an,_d'_ knew them personally
No. 2430. "FEDERATION WAR." LAMAR
[Richmond ? Texas, 184- ?l Peredez was taken & shot by Urea.- Reyes was taken prisoner . at chorubusco. Ampudia, boiled the head of a captered enemy in oil, in, Ucatan viz Santamanat. Vasquez was killed at Cerro Gordo Trespelacios, whilst Governor at Bexar in 1822, he issued pape:r- money, which was redeemed by the Govrmnt- Whilst he was with Long at Galvezton he also issued paper there, which was never recog~ nized by the Govt-
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