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few llay::; after their arrirnl in Sni,l Plac-e the ware Paid a Yisit In· a tripe I trilicJ of Indians Caffpll Lipan;; thC' Capt of whir·h "·as ,:er\'" lmpcrtinC'11t in demanding Prrscnt~ from )Idlulli11 who refu:-:cd to CompJy with any of hir,; w1111ts )h·)lullin ordl•rc-cl a ('apt Kell_,· who h:td orga11iz<>d illl' fn1cnJ into a Company of Ci,·il militin to hnni them [1mmc ldiately under arms to mand thr. Cn1111on a1Hl fire them off which was clo11e in II Ye:·y few minute:i, the Pllllians on] henriu_!! the report of the C111111011 lml'diately left the Pince, on heiug requested to Remain to Sec the men exerci8e the answer 110. thnt the ha,l to fiml out 11 Good Camping Grouud for the night nnd went off hut returned no more, in July 18:30 a Com pan~· Prepared to go and explore the Country on the Nueces and Sellect Pince for a town which was done by the Empre~nrio nfcGloin ancl others, on the following month he )fcGloin, four men and his family moved from the l!Iission to the Nueces takin:r with him the Cannon for his defence on the Second day after Getting there he was visited by a company of Comanche Indians in number fifty four which '!onducted themselves very friendly to the Said Settlers nit.hough all Precautions being use to preYent a[ttack] on Seeing us so Cautious !he Capt. told us he was [friendly] to all whites and tl1~t the ware o~ly m Search of an other tribe called the Cnrancuasos, which was enemies of thers, at 10 of the Same night five of their Scouts returned bring Intelligance that the Knew where the enemy was, whereon the Got up there horses and was r<>adv in less than ten minute~ to mnrch, distance of fifty miles, which distance the road nnd ntacked the others nt day light killing two of them and taking all their hor8es [with] them, Some of the Settlers got disntisfyed with the Country nnd returned to the U. S. the rest remo,·ed to the Nueces which we nnmed it the town of Sau Patricio, in October we ware ,·isited hy an other Part_,· of Comanches twenty four which stoped nt ukGloins house, where the Got provisions & in the night one of them Got into n Sheep pen and was about taking one when he was Seized by the neck by a Sen•nnt of l\fcGloins and gaYe him a [good] Floging he got to bis Company _but n~ver Jet them Know [what] happened him the went off next d~y 1~1 a friendly [manner] Sau Patricio is in Latitude 27 :22 about 4.> miles from the Gulf of Mexico, -21. . News arri,·ed i11 San Patricio of the C'npture of Goliad by the Texrnns [on the] 10 octob through Some officers that made their esfcape_ by them 1 it was also Stated that the ware coming to tnke the Gnmson of Lipantitlan. the Commander of which in Compnn_,. with those from Goliad held a com1cil to See which wa8 the he~t way to tlefrnd it the Come to n c-onclusion to Send for a piece of Cannon to ,'nn Pntririo ~vhich belonged to )kMullen and ?llcGloin knowing the same to l~c m favour of the 'rexians the only wnnted Some pretence to tnke it. from them uow it was concluded fo Send for the rnnnon next f morn- ing], whic·h wa:,: acomp,rnyNl hy l\ Xote from till' (·Ollllllrllnlit'r,I to James )lc:Uloin requesti11g of him to let him haw th<' ~•a11_11on lur I\ few davs to exercise his men nnd thnt he would n•turu It :-;11f P. ~11·- Gloin refuse,l lending it Stntilll! thnt the C111111011 Wll:-' hi,; l'riruh• Property, llllll he pur(•ha:ied it for the Protel'tiuu of hi,: famil_r ltll<l the people from sanlges & nny other t'nem~· rhnt wl1nul,l 11tk111pt. to molest us nn n11s,n•r lit•in!! l'l'tl11·1u•d the ollll'l'f" 1·ome to n 1'0111·111,.:1011 to Send a Compau.,· of n1en to tnkt• tht> C11111wn mul nl,:o tht• owner
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