Camp robbed by Tawakonis (Wichitas) three miles above Green DeWitt farm on the Guadalupe River.
Date: February 28, 1829
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.502303000000
Longitude: -97.464448000000
Longitude: -97.464448000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, 175-76.
Event Type:
Date: May 1829
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A party of Tawakonis (Wichitas) kill José Salinas and Miguel Castro near San Marcos.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.886197000000
Longitude: -97.904449000000
Longitude: -97.904449000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27), vol. 2, 219-20.
Event Type:
Date: July 1829
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Four Indians, probably Tawakonis (Wichitas), killed during raid of settlers at Thomas Thompson farm house near Bastrop.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.110533000000
Longitude: -97.323096000000
Longitude: -97.323096000000
Citation:
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: From its First Settlement in 1685 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck, 1953), 260
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1829
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White John McSherry killed by Indians, possibly Tawakonis (Wichita) on the west side of Guadalupe River, at the lower edge of the DeWitt Colony.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.841255000000
Longitude: -97.064552000000
Longitude: -97.064552000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1988), 88.
Event Type:
Date: March 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tawakonis (Wichita) raid John Walker’s home on Little River. One family member killed. Reports of other Anglos killed in surrounding area and livestock stolen.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.970849000000
Longitude: -97.353457000000
Longitude: -97.353457000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924), 2:351. John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 211.
Event Type:
Date: 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American San Antonio resident, Jose Manuel Delgado, killed by Wacos near San Antonio.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.516000000000
Longitude: -98.321553000000
Longitude: -98.321553000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 4:154.
Event Type:
Date: August 1830
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Three hundred Comanches appear at Laredo, where they remain for four days, stealing cattle and horses.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.550062000000
Longitude: -99.468120000000
Longitude: -99.468120000000
Citation:
Joseph B. Wilkinson, Laredo and the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative (Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1975), 126-27.
Event Type:
Date: December 14, 1831
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of Indians, probably Comanches, break into animal pens at the ranch of Father Florentino Ramos near San Antonio and take a servant girl captive.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.352932000000
Longitude: -98.684079000000
Longitude: -98.684079000000
Citation:
Antonio Elozua to Captain of the Company of the Rio Grande, December 30 1831, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Event Type:
Date: May 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches kill a party of woodcutters and capture a young boy near Goliad.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.673366000000
Longitude: -97.405757000000
Longitude: -97.405757000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 142
Event Type:
Date: August 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Anglo immigrant H. Reed is killed by a party of eight Wacos (Wichitas) near Tenoxtitlan, 14 miles northeast of present-day Caldwell.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.636003000000
Longitude: -96.666092000000
Longitude: -96.666092000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924), 2:836, 848-49.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Event Type:
Date: 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Edward Jenkins is killed by Indians, probably Comanches, at the farm of William Barton, Woods Prairie (near present-day West Point).
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.944578000000
Longitude: -97.038646000000
Longitude: -97.038646000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., eds. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:39.
Event Type:
Date: April 30, 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Comanches attack Mexican troops at the Arroyo Hondo (Hondo Creek), eleven miles east of present-day Vanderpool, killing Ramón Aguirre.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.756345000000
Longitude: -99.491243000000
Longitude: -99.491243000000
Citation:
Antonio Elosua to Captains of Companies of Rio Grande and Bexar and Vicente Arreola, May 14, 1833, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Event Type:
Date: August 13, 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A band of five Karankawas raids the La Parra Ranch (near present-day Sarita), killing ten - one man and nine women and children. The Indians plunder the ranch, taking one woman and three girls captive.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 27.224793000000
Longitude: -97.785987000000
Longitude: -97.785987000000
Citation:
Enrique Villarreal to Alcalde of Guadalupe and Mariano Cosio Ramon, September 4, 1833, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Event Type:
Date: August 17, 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Karankawas raid a ranch near Guadalupe Victoria (present-day Victoria). A presidial company of 14 men engage the Karankawas, killing three warriors and a young girl.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 28.836170000000
Longitude: -97.034897000000
Longitude: -97.034897000000
Citation:
Placido Benavides to Alcalde of Goliad, August 26, 1833, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Event Type:
Date: 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Eight Mexicans are killed by Indians, probably Comanches, near San Patricio.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.971171000000
Longitude: -97.762235000000
Longitude: -97.762235000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, Refugio: a comprehensive history of Refugio County from aboriginal times ... (Woodsboro, TX: Rooke Foundation, 1953-55), 137.
Event Type:
Date: February 2, 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A group of Comanches with stolen horses attacked a merchant caravan. One resident, Theodosio Trevino, is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.782021000000
Longitude: -99.497557000000
Longitude: -99.497557000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 6.
Event Type:
Date: 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Land agent Thomas McQueen is robbed and severely wounded by a party of Indians, probably Comanche, on the Medina River, approximately 24 miles west of San Antonio. One Indian is also killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.364474000000
Longitude: -98.825988000000
Longitude: -98.825988000000
Citation:
Jose Padilla to Samuel May Williams, February 26, 1834, Samuel May Williams Papers, Rosenberg Library.
Event Type:
Date: April 7, 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Two Laredo residents are killed by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.578071000000
Longitude: -99.404754000000
Longitude: -99.404754000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 6.
Event Type:
Date: May 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White William Ponton is killed by Comanches on Ponton Creek, northwest of present-day Shiner.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.428502000000
Longitude: -97.176308000000
Longitude: -97.176308000000
Citation:
"Ponton Creek," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rbpbd), accessed October 31, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 79.
Event Type:
Date: May 15, 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Judge Gabriel Martin is killed by Kiowa Indians on Glass Creek, 15 miles above Washita River (now Lake Texoma). Martin’s son Matthew and a young male slave, Hardy, are captured, but escape and return home a few months later.
Tribe: Kiowas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.847483000000
Longitude: -96.685248000000
Longitude: -96.685248000000
Citation:
Pat B. Clark, The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County (Dallas: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1937), 21-22.
R. L. Jones and Andrew Davis, “Folk Life in Early Texas: The Autobiography of Andrew Davis,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 43, no. 1 (October 1939): 162.
Christopher Long, "Martin, Gabriel N.," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmabb), accessed October 31, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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