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lence to him. He however was soon undecieved - John Austin en- tered Mrs. Peyton's house, and made known his object - Mrs. Peyton plead for Deaton; & Deaton himself supplicated for his life, saying that if they would not punish him, that he would immediately leave the country - Austin replied, that he would give him a passport; and taking hold of him, he was lead out and tarred and feathered, and after being marched up the streets once or twice, was ordered to leave the county - They offered him a drink of whiskey, which he refused to take - Sam Williams, John Austin, Brown Austin were the chief operators - Their apology was that said Deaton was endeavoring to persuade the people to fire the Land office &c - [Endorsed] Laura Rich Kenny No. 2447 [184-?, M.B. LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXAS] DIFFICULTIES WITH KARANKAWA INDIANS The "Lively" was the first vessel sent out to hunt[?] the mouth of the Colorado - 53 She wag wrecked and lost somewhere below the mouth of the River - The Crew were saved but the provisions and cargo was all lost. The men took up their march in search of some settlemt - They soon divided; one half of them taking one direction and the other another - One party met the Karankaway Indians, who told them the way to the mouth of the Colorado - whither they went, and thence wandred up the river - and let the other party who had camped up the river - There were some few settlmts on the Cole>- rado before the ''lively" came, Burnam's & others who came with Austin via, Nacogdoches - The crew suffered greatly from hunger; several starved to death; others reached Barns & other settlmtts &c- Nothing being heard of the Lively the "Only Son" was dis- patched from New Orleans in search of her; she made the mouth of the Colorado, commanded by Capt. Ellison, a gentlemanly man. She brought out several passengers among whom, were, a Mr. Morgan & family, Capt. J ennin1,rs (a former partner of Oliver Jones; they ran a stam [sic] boat together on the Mississippi) a man by the name of Dickinson; John Hanna, Kentucky; Kinchelow,. John T. Hawkins Kntucky, Majr. Joseph Hawkins of Missouri and others - John T Hawkins came to the Country for his health; he & his relation Joseph established a camp up the Colorado & left in the fall of 1822 - Jo!>eph Hawkins never returned to Texas: but after his death his children came, & settled in Coles settlmt. One of them was married to John Rice Jones - Old Col. Job11 T. Hawkins probably died - he never came back - The Only Son then returned to N. 0. Major Kinchelow went in her after his fami]v - Kinchelow saw The ''Lively ( ] Mr. Peyton, & it was thro' his discription of Texas that Mrs. Peyton
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