Identifier: indianwarspionee00brow (find matches)
Title: Indian wars and pioneers of Texas
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, John Henry, 1820-1895
Subjects: Indians of North America Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America
Publisher: Austin : L.E. Daniel)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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when young Bryan arrived. When he returned,
the latter, who had not seen him for more than
ten years, called upon him at the house of Samuel
M. Williams, who was Secretary of Austin's colony,
and was cordially received.
Stephen F. Austin was then a member of the leg-
islature of Coahuila and Texas and invited his
nephew to accompany him, as his private secretary,
to the city of Saltillo, capital of the provinces.
The offer was accepted and, after an interesting
journey through a country then almost entirely un-
inhabited, they arrived at Saltillo, reaching their
destination about the first of April, 1832. In June
the legislature adjourned until fall and Austin left
for Matamoros to see Gen. Terran, commander
of the military district including the Eastern States
bordering on the Rio Grande. While leisurely
prosecuting this journey he heard of the troubles
occurring in Texas and that Gen. Mexia had been
sent with four armed vessels and troops to the
mouth of the Brazos to quell the outbreak. He
therefore hastened forward with the utmost dis-
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Moses Austin Bryan


INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS. 169


patch, joined Mexia and went with him to Texas,
leaving bis horses, mules and traveling equipage
with Mr. Bedell, expecting to return in the
autumn and attend the session of the legisla-
ture. However, he found the political waters so
stirred by the battles of Anahuac and Velasco be
-tween the colonists and Mexican soldiers, that he
concluded to remain, and wrote to his nephew that
Mr. Bedell and three or four friends would take
goods to the State fair at Saltillo to be held on the
10th of September, the anniversary of the declara-
tion of Mexican independence, and he could return
with them to Blatamoros, where Mr. Bedell would
give him the horses, mules and baggage and furnish
a trusty Mexican to pilot the way to San Felipe.
On approaching Goliad, the Mexican heard the
people talk of the battles of Anahuac and Velasco
and refused to proceed further. The alcalde of
the town, however, furnished a guide for the re
-mainder of the journey. On reaching his destina-
tion, Bryan at once visited his mother ot her home
on Chocolate Bayou.

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