NOTES



  1.  H. P. N. Gammel (comp.), The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 (10 vols.; Austin,. 898), I, 125.

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  2.  For a detailed study of the law, see the chapter entitled "The Law of April G, 1830,'- in Eugene C. Barker, The Life of Stephen F. Austin (Nashville, 1925), 296-328.

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  3.  Manuel de Mier y Teran to Antonio Elosua, April 24, 1830 (MS., Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), Vol. 53, pp. 126-126 verso. See also "Tenoxtitlan," Texas Gazette (San Felipe de Austin), June 26, 1830.

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  4.  Elosua to Mier y Teran, June 28, 1830 (MS., Bexar Archives, Archives, University of Texas Library).

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  5.  Severo Ruiz to Elosua, July 18, 1830, ibid.

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  6.  Mier y Teran to Elosua, July 16, 1830 (MS., Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), Vol. 53, p. 129.

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  7.  Francisco Ruiz to Elosua, August 7, 1830 (MS., Bexar Archives, Archives, University of Texas Library).

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  8.  Mrs. Jud Collier to M. D. M., interview, April 20, 1963. Mrs. Collier's father-in-law, J. R. Collier, purchased the site of Tenoxtitlan on November 30, 1898, and later sold it to Junius Smith. John J. Toupal, Burleson County Clerk, to M. D. M., March 12, 1963 (MS. in possession of the writer).

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  9.  Mier y Teran to Elosua, July 17, 1830 (MS., Bexar Archives, Archives, University of Texas Library).

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  10.  Mier y Teran to the Minister of Internal and External Relations, July 31, 1830 (West Transcripts, Archivo de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1827-1830, Archives, University of Texas Library), Legajo V, 210-212.

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  11.  Mier y Teran to the Secretary of Internal and Foreign Relations, September , 1830, ibid., 274 276.

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  12.  Mier y Teran to Elosua, September 20, 1830 (MS., Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), Vol. 53, pp. 131-131 verso.

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  13.  Francisco Ruiz to Elosua, October 9, 1830, ibid., 132-134.

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  14.  Mary Austin Holley, Texas (Lexington, 1836: facsimile reprint, Austin, 1935), 120-121.

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  15.  Francisco Ruiz to Elosua, October 29, 1830 (MS., Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), Vol. 53, pp. 136-136 verso.

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  16.  Francisco Ruiz to Elosua, October 9, 1830, ibid., 132-134.

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  17.  Eugene C. Barker (ed.), "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin, 828-1832," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXIII, 217.

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  18.  Mier y Terán to Elosua, October 12, 1830 (MS., Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), Vol. 53, pp. 116-116 verso Francisco Ruiz to Elosua, December 13, 1830, ibid., 138-138 verso.

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  19.  For detail of this contract, see Malcolm D. McLean, “Leftwich’s Grant,” Texas Parade, IX, No. 5, pp. 35-36, 38-39.

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  20.  Francisco Ruiz to Stephen F. Austin, November 26, 1830, in Eugene C. Barker (ed.), The Austin Papers (Vols. I and II, Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Years 19l9 and 1922, Washington, 1924, 1928; Vol. III, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1926), II, 541.

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  21.  Francisco Ruiz to Elosua, October 30, 1830 (MS., Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), Vol. 54, pp. 279-279 verso.

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  22.  Sterling C. Robertson to Ramon Muquiz, November 13, 1830 (MS., Nacogdoches Archives, Archives, University of Texas Library), Vol. 53, pp. 7-9.

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  23.  Mier y Teran to Elosua, December 31, 1830 (MS., Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), Vol. 54, pp. 286-286 verso.

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  24.  Muquiz to Elosua, February 9, 1831, ibid., 285-285 verso.

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  25.  Francisco Ruiz to Elosua, March 4, 1831, ibid., 291-291 verso.

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  26.  General agreement between Robertson & Thompson and their colonists, November 28, 1830 (MS. in possession of the writer).

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  27.  Francisco Ruiz to Austin, November 22, 1830, in Barker (ed.), Austin Papers, II, 538

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  28.  Francis Smith to Austin, August 22, 1832, ibid., 848-849.

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  29.  Francisco Ruiz to Austin, August 18, 182, ibid., 845.

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  30.  Nestor Clay to Stephen F. Austin, July 27, 1831 (MS., Unpublished Austin Papers, Archives, University of Texas Library).

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  31.  Francis Smith to A. G. and R. Mills, March 1l, 1831, in Eugene C. Barker, "A Glimpse of the Texas Fur lade in 182," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XIX, 280-82.

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  32.  Ohland Morton, "Life of General Don Manuel de Mier y Teran," ibid., XLVIII, 540. Reprinted as Teran and Texas (Austin, 1948).

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  33.  Francisco Ruiz to Austin, November 26, 180, in Barker (ed.), Austin Papers, II, 541-542

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  34.  Francisco Ruiz to the Military Commander of Coahuila and Texas, June 23, 1832 (MS., Nacogdoches Archives, Archives, University of Texas Library), Vol. 62, pp. 103-104.

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  35.  Francis Smith to Austin, August 22, 1832, in Barker (ed.), Austin Papers, II, 848-849.

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  36.  Frank W. Johnson (E. C. Barker and E. W. Winkler, eds.), A History of Texas and Texans (5 vols.; Chicago, 1914), I, 166-167.

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  37.  Recommendation of Jeremiah Tinnin by John Teal and others, December 14, 1832 (MS., Unpublished Austin Papers, Archives, University of Texas Library); E. S. C. Robertson to Moses Austin Bryan, April 23, 1875 (MS. in possession of the writer). Craddock lived in Tenoxtitlan until 1836.

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  38.  See Austin and Williams Contract, February 25, 1831 (MS., Translations of Empresario Contracts, Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), 190-191.

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  39.  James Armstrong, Some Facts on the Eleven League Controversy (Austin, 1859), 11.

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  40.  These applications are all in the Character Certificates (Spanish Archives, General Land Office, Austin), filed alphabetically under the name of the applicant.

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  41.  Decree of Governor Vidaurri, May 22, 1834 (MS., Archivo de la Secretaria de Gobierno del Estado, Saltillo), Legajo 29, Expediente 1293, pp. 614-618.

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  42.  J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin, 1889; facsimile reprint, Austin, 1935), 242.

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  43.  Lucy A. Erath, "Memoirs of Major George Bernard Erath," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXVI, 224-226.

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  44.  William A. McLeod, Fullinwider and McFarland, Pioneer Texas Presbyterians (Cuero, 19l), 5; Wllliam Stuart Red,History of the Presbyterian Church in Texas (Austin, 196), .

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  45.  Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, 241.

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  46.  John Milton Swisher, "Reminiscences of Texas and Texas People," American Sketch Book, V, 96-97.

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  47.  Louis Wiltz Kemp, The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence (Houston. 1944), 9-15, 39-42, 287-304. 336-340

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  48.  Amelia Williams, "A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and the Personnel of Its Defenders," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXXVII, 271. There is additional material on Eliel Melton in the Submiscellaneous Files (Archives, Texas State Library).

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  49.  Sam Houston Dixon and Louis Wiltz Kemp, The Heroes of San Jacinto (Houston, 1932), 105, 229-230, 231-232, 247-248, 325, 361 378

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  50.  N. C. Duncan, "Marlin in 1836," Galveston News, October 1, 1895; George W. Tyler, The History of Bell County San Antonio, 1936), 26-27.

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  51.  R. Barr to Horatio Chriesman and other commissioners appointed to locate the seat of government, about November 15, 1837 (MS., State Department: Seat of Government Papers, 1836-1842, Archives, Texas State Library).

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  52.  John P. Coles to Stephen F. Austin, August 18, 183Z, in Barker (ed.), Austin Papers, II, 845-846.

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  53.  Wilbarger Indian Depredations in Texas, 241-245.

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  54.  Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas from Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (2 vols.; New York, 1855; facsimile reprint, Austin, 1935), I, 352.

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  55.  R. Y. King, "An Indian Story," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Reunion of the 01d Settlers' Association of Bell County, Held at Belton, Texas, September 27th, 1902 ([Belton], 1902).

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  56.  Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston), June 2, 1841.

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  57.  This inscription is also reproduced in Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations, Monuments Erected by the State of Texas to Commemorate the Centenary of Texas Independence (Austin, 1938), 124.