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PAPERS OF l\lIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
ensued - Mrs. Perry yielded not one half but one fourth of the Lands held by Austin in his own name, and the whole of trust lands held in the name of Brown - Austin's colony originally was to commence on the Brazos two Leagues east of it & run westward to the LaBacca- & from the Gulf to the San Antonio Rivr, running from Bexar to Nacogdoches, crossing the Colorado at Bastrop, & the Brazos below Tenoxticlan; the Trinity at Robins ferry &c - The Constitution of Mexico, reserved ten leagues on the coast from location. Austin petitioned the Mexican Govt. to permit him to extend his colony east of the Brazos so as to enclude Galvezton Island, and the settlemt made on the SanJacinto making the dividig waters of the Sanjacnto & the Trinity the dividig line - The settlers residing in this territory completed the contract of Aus- tin for three hundred families - He then further petitioned to be allowed to settle the ten literal Leagues reserved on the coast - No. 2432 [184-?, l\L B. LAMAR, RICHMO:ND? TEXAS] DIFFICULTIES WITH THE TONKAWAY AND COMANCHE INDIANS IN BEXAR AND VICINITY, 1836-31, AND BETWEEN AUS-- . TIN AND THE FALLS OF THE BRAZOS, 1840; HAYS'S EXPEDITIONS AGAINST LA- REDO, 1840 30 Information Recd. From Major Howard Military- 1836 - November - Majors Tinsley and Howard, in a Land ex• cursion, met with a party of the Tonks 15 in number - 7 Texans -· a fight ensued ; the Tonks commencing it - 3 Tonks killed. Texans met no loss except one horse killed - The Tonks fought with Bows & arrows- Commanchees - They had been invited into Bexar to make a Treaty; between 80 & 100 - they came prepared for fight, having their guns loaded & cocked; and bearing a white flag on a long staft with a cross on it - 'rhey recd. many presents, in guns powder, shot, red paint &C - professed great frndship & entered into a formal treaty conducted on the part of Texas by Genl. ,T ohnson, who was then in command of the army - The Comanchees had long been in the habit of makin~ the Mexicans place a g-uar<l over their horses, when they visited Bexa:r;, either for civil or hostile purposes, and held the city responsible for the safe keeping of said horses - It frequently happened that the Comanchees, would steal their own horses thus guarded. and then would demand pay of the Mexicans - when thev entered Bexar on the occasion above mentioned, they came with all their usual inso-
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