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William are still livig, near their first residence, & are worthy good citizens - old settlers Alexander Jackson, settled peach Creek, now Colorado Co. died in a few years - John C. Clark, settled near the same place & time. Was a great In- dian Fighter. A Karankaway dropped his buffaloe skin in the robe [sic] knowig that it would attract the attnten [attention] of tho whites as they passed by. Two men, soon came along - . the Karank secreted in the bushes let fly an arrow at one of them; but the other man, who was Clark, shot him with a rifle almost as soon as the arrow had struck his friend - He landed at the mouth of the river; the Indins jumped upon the canoe & held it; they killed, Alley, Law, & another; Clark wounded badly with arrows swam the river, with 4 arrows in him & escaped - Still living at the sane place east side Colorado near Egypt -- One of the first settlers 5 or 6 young men settled soon after, on peach creek, Jno. McCroskey, Thos. McCoy, Jacob Betts, Wm. Kingston Peter Panell, Moses Mor- rison; Thos. H. Borden, Wm. Selkirk. They are all dead except Kngston, Morrison & Borden - The war with the Karankaway lasted 4 or 5 years - upwards of 150 of thm were killed. The Karankays murdered many of the ship- wcked sailors on the coast - they were canibals Wm. Kin,chaloe on peach Creek about the same time; died a few years ago. Amos & Daniel Rawls, same place & time - dead - [Endorsed] Information from A. Rabb Colorado earliest settlers No. 2426 [184-? J . ?] ROWLETT, "INFORMATION FROM DOCTR. ROW- LETT ON THE RED RIVER"; EARLY SETTLERS AND INDIAN DIFFICULTIES 31 About the middle of February 1836 the Steam-Boat, Rover, com- . manded by Benjamin Crooks, landed at several places along the Texian line betwen the white-oak shoals, and Jonesboro; having OJ} board emi- grants from the United States, many of whom settled themselves, and now reside along the Red-River, and about the 1st of m1rch 36 landed at Jonesboro in Red River County when she discharged the families of John Stephens Edward Stephens (from Lamar County Alabama) Daniel Slack (from Missippi) Richard H Lock (from Somerville Ten- nessee) and D Rowlett (from Waidsboro Kentucky) all having left
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