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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
Spencer was killed in this fight & also
got the· best of the fight -
Smith Bailey 22 years old son of old Brit Bailey - -A;t the fight at Skull Creek as above stated Selkirk, one of the old Surveyors was killed & perhaps another man - [Endorsed]
Information derived from Mrs. Eberley
No. 2448 [184-f, M. B. LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXASl J. C. PEYTON; THE FREDONIAN WAR; L. R. KENNEYH Mrs. Eberley. J. C. Peyton, resided in N. 0. temporarily. He was from Nash• ville - He emigrated to Texas in 1822 June 7th; landed here the 18th - came over in the, "Good Intent" Capt. Landed at Mata- gorda, remand th[ere] some da]ys [ ?] [w]ent to Hawkin's la[ nding (where?] . now stands, remained there from the lat- ter part of August, & left in 6 weeks; & went to a place, now known as McCluskey's Tanyard, 5 miles below Columbus, on the East side) ...... Hawkins Camp was on the west - After Christmas, went to Biern- ham.'s lived a while in his house, made a crop there - In the fall of 1823 Mrs. Peyton visited Tennessee; travelled by Land, then N aca- doches - boarded at ]\foN eil's in the Ayesh bayou until spring, thence she went to Natcitoches where she arrived in May 1824 - thenca she went to Tennessee, spent summer & part of the winter, and returned to Texas in March in 1825, and met her husband in Nacogdoches; where they remand untjl the fall, and moved to San Phillippe in Oc- tober 1825 - This was now the first time she saw Austin - Mr. Pey- ton died at Sanphillpee in May 1834 - Mrs. Peyton remand in San- filliRpe until the breakinp; out of the war. In 1836 she was at Colrim- bia, where she remained [ ?] a Mrs. Eberley; who died in- Freedonian War 1827 - The Revolutionist were writing to the people on the Brazos; they wrote among others to Mr. Peyton - He advised them to desist; the time had not yet arrived - The Revolutionist ha[d] at [Nacogdo]ches declared [ Inde]pendence and hoisted on their hats a blue cockade - Many cockades were sent to Sanfillippe to be dis- tributed to such as were disposed to join them. Austin was for a while in ignorance of this affair - The Alcalde at Nacogdoches was made prisoner - The Americans embodied thmselves - News was sent to the Authority of San Antonio. The Governor Saucedo (he was nearly blind) and the political chief came to Sanphillippe. When they arrived Austin was sick. Thev thro' Austin sent on commission- ers to the Revolutionists, Judge Ellis (then on a visit to Sanfillippe) and Abner Kirkendall, and some others, names not recollected. The
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