Edward Jenkins is killed by Indians, probably Comanches, at the farm of William Barton, Woods Prairie (near present-day West Point).
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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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: 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Karankawas demand corn from Daniel Gilleland, an Austin colonist then living near present-day Wharton. Refusing to give them any, he raises a party of settlers and attacks the Karankawa camp, killing several Indians.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.291822000000
Longitude: -96.098549000000
Longitude: -96.098549000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 214.
Event Type:
Date: April 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Lipans, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Mexican troops led by Capt. Manuel Barragán and assisted by Lipan Apaches kill seven Comanches west of San Antonio.
Tribe: Lipans, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.418826000000
Longitude: -98.781509000000
Longitude: -98.781509000000
Citation:
Foster Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 144.
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 (Mexican/Tejano), 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 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) An Anglo-American surveying party is attacked by 60 Indians on Walnut Creek above Pecan Spring, in present-day northeast Austin. One surveyor, Christian Strother, is killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.275104000000
Longitude: -97.656830000000
Longitude: -97.656830000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 23-25.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 8-12.
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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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 (Mexican/Tejano), 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: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Surveying party led by A. Legrand is attacked by Snake Indians near present-day Texhoma. Nine Indians and three whites are killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 36.504559000000
Longitude: -101.778687000000
Longitude: -101.778687000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 27-28.
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 (Mexican/Tejano), 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 (Mexican/Tejano), 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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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 (Mexican/Tejano), 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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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 (includes Anglo-American, European) 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.
Event Type:
Date: May 19,1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American A presidial company from Victoria (then known as Guadalupe Victoria) attacks a Karankawa village near Arroyo Tres Palacios on Matagorda Bay (present-day Palacios). During a battle that lasts an hour and a half, six Indian men and four women are killed.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 28.717384000000
Longitude: -96.237703000000
Longitude: -96.237703000000
Citation:
Placido Benavides to Ramon Musquiz, May 28, 1834, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin
Event Type:
Date: December 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two Cherokees attempt to break into the house of a Robertson colonist at the Falls of the Brazos. The resident is severely wounded, both Indians are killed by local residents.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.251853000000
Longitude: -96.919263000000
Longitude: -96.919263000000
Citation:
Malcolm McLean, Sterling Robertson Papers, 9:50.
Event Type:
Date: 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) David Ridgway is killed by Indians, probably Wacos or Tawakonis (Wichitas) halfway between Fort Milam (four miles southwest of present-day Marlin) and the Brazos Falls.
Tribe: Wacos, Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.238087000000
Longitude: -97.009586000000
Longitude: -97.009586000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 219.
Event Type:
Date: 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three Anglo colonists are followed and attacked by Indians, possibly Caddos, between the Trinity and Sabine rivers. One Anglo is killed.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.014842000000
Longitude: -94.940633000000
Longitude: -94.940633000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 61-62.
Event Type:
Date: February 6, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three Mexicans and an Anglo named Smith are killed by Indians, presumably Comanches, a few miles south of San Antonio. One man is killed; Smith later dies of his wounds.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.148252000000
Longitude: -98.530913000000
Longitude: -98.530913000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 29.
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955).
Event Type:
Date: March 21, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) John Edwards, a wagoner, killed by Kichai (Wichita) Indians near Bastrop on the road to Washington on the Brazos.
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.097356000000
Longitude: -97.320638000000
Longitude: -97.320638000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 26.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 10:394.
“Murder by the Indians!” The Texas Republican, March 21, 1835.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 231.
Event Type: