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the Daughter of Capt G. they were then in some 20 yards of the Door so soon as they found they were discovered, they yelled and made for the Door, the young lady, had. the presence of mind, to close the Door, and bolt. it, the Indians made an effort to brake the Door. Down, and would of succeeded no doubt, had they not discov- ered Capt. Geary and his slave, corning to the releif of the family, so soon as they made the Discovery, they abandoned the Door and met Geary & his slaYe at the fence, within 30 feet of the House, the In- dians no Doubt was, alarmed or they certainly would have, killed, the whole family Capt Geary. being a man of Extraordinary muscular power. would, nock. them Down with his Hoe which prevented them from taking, the usual pains in shooting, the old. lady, (Mrs. Geary) and her Daughter hearin~ the voice of the Capt. each gathered a rifle threw open the Door, and marched out amid, the Indians, So soon as the Indians discover~d them with guns, they began shooting at them, Captain Geary. disco,·ering, that his wife was wounded jumped, the fence, reached his wife and, got his Rifle, one of his little sons, about the same time got the gun his sister had, the Indians took the alarm, and fled, the fight had been. a bloody one in deed, the arrows, was lying thick when I reached the Battle ground, the Indians, made their escape, and owing to a very severe rain. falling that evening, prevented us from Capturing any of them, Capt Geary thinks there was, at least 15 Indians, and all. fighting - him and his .slave, except two, who had guns, and they were snaping, during the whole fight at them, but did not succed in g-etting them to fire, Capt. Geary, was strongly so- licited, by his family and friends to leave the frontier, but he refused, and said he felt, as though he could succeed, every time, even if Double the number. should attact him, he has kept his· ground, and is now living in Peace, not Dreading the approach of Indians - Wm. H Bourland No. 2434 [184-?] A. COLEMAN, .THE LAST INDIAN DEPREDATION ' UPON THE SOUTHWESTERN FRONTIER NEAR AUSTIN 38 On the 2nd. Jany 1843, I started for Mr. James Smiths there [sic] miles below the City of Austin, in a small buggy, after some Ladies, Mrs. Thompson & her Daughter, about the time of starting Mr. Bell one of the Citizens asked to ride with me, a pa.rt of the way, and we started, about 4 oclock in the evening, when about a quarter of a mile below the City on my way down, I discovered a party of fifteen Indians on horseback within about one hundred yards of me, both of us be i:u.g unarmed, I whipped the horse for the purpose of making my escape to Mr. Lucketts, who lived about a half mile from the place where I firRt discovered the Indians, unfortunately however part of the Har- ness broke and the Horse got loose from the Buggy, and left Mr. Belt and myself perfectly afoot and unarmed, we both jumped out of the buggy and got over a fence immediately on our right, and run say three· hundred yards before they caught us, they speared me, and shot me with an arrow and hit me with something like a club, as soon na
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