A party of merchants is fired upon by seven Tonkawas near Brazoria. One Indian is killed.
Date: April 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.049144000000
Longitude: -95.576882000000
Longitude: -95.576882000000
Citation:
“Unfortunate Occurrence,” The Texas Republican, May 2, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: April 15, 1835
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) Mr. Gressier and 13 French and Mexican merchants are killed by raiding party of 70 Comanche on the San Antonio Road, 15 miles west of Gonzales.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.515749000000
Longitude: -97.675150000000
Longitude: -97.675150000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 16.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 1:41.
Unfortunate Occurrence,” The Texas Republican, May 2, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-April 1835
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) Party of settlers from Gonzales led by James H. C. McClure skirmish with a Comanche raiding party, numbering about 50, on the Rio Blanco, near present-day San Marcos. Five or six Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.853765000000
Longitude: -97.917442000000
Longitude: -97.917442000000
Citation:
Andrew J. Sowell, Early settlers and Indian fighters of southwest Texas, Austin: B.C. Jones, 1900), 438-440.
“Unfortunate Occurrence,” The Texas Republican, May 2, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: May 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) Searching for stolen horses, a company of two dozen settlers led by Major William Oldham attacks and burns a Kichai (Wichita) village on Boggy Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River, five miles south of present-day Centerville. Two Kichai Indians are killed.
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.211879000000
Longitude: -95.982495000000
Longitude: -95.982495000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 10:393-94.
Event Type:
Date: June 1, 1835
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) Driving wagons of merchandise from Columbia to Bastrop, Amos Alexander and his son, Amos Alexander, Jr. are attacked by Indians 35 miles southeast of Bastrop at the headwaters of Pin Oak Creek.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.007101000000
Longitude: -97.070007000000
Longitude: -97.070007000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 239-40.
Event Type:
Date: June 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Caddos, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A force of 60 Texas volunteers captures four Indians--two Caddos, chief Canoma and his son, and two Cherokees--near the Three Forks of the Little River, six miles southeast of Belton. Mistakenly believing them to be horse thieves, they vote to execute the four men.
Tribe: Caddos, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.970328000000
Longitude: -97.348480000000
Longitude: -97.348480000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 207-08.
Event Type:
Date: June 6, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Three men are killed by Indians, probably Comanches, near the La Bahia Crossing on the Colorado River.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.323952000000
Longitude: -96.153674000000
Longitude: -96.153674000000
Citation:
Texas Republican, June 6, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: June 29, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) To protest Mexican customs laws, William B. Travis and 25 men force Mexican garrison at Anahuac, led by Capt. Antonio Tenorio, to surrender.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.764558000000
Longitude: -94.674806000000
Longitude: -94.674806000000
Citation:
Margaret Swett Henson, "Tenorio, Antonio," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fte12), accessed July 17, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association
Date: July 12, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tawakonis (Wichita) living near the headwaters of the Navasota River (near present day Mount Calm) repulse an attack by Robert M. Coleman and 20-25 settlers. One Texan is killed (John Williams), and four wounded. Two Tawakonis are killed.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.752773000000
Longitude: -96.887098000000
Longitude: -96.887098000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1835
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) Austin colonist James Lyons is killed by a party of Comanches on his farm, a few miles south of present-day Schulenburg. His son, Warren Lyons, is captured, and lives with the Comanches for ten years before returning to his family.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.613376000000
Longitude: -96.919681000000
Longitude: -96.919681000000
Citation:
Benjamin Dolbeare, A Narrative of the Captivity and Suffering of Dolly Webster among the Camanche Indians in Texas: with an account of the Massacre of John Webster and his Party, as related by Mrs. Webster (New Haven: Yale University Library, 1986), 12.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Event Type:
Date: August 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) “Cherokee” John Williams, a noted horse thief, is killed in a Cherokee village. Exact location unknown, but approximately 30 miles north of Nacogdoches.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.720669000000
Longitude: -94.638573000000
Longitude: -94.638573000000
Citation:
House Executive Documents, 25th Congress, 2nd sess., No. 351, 776.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 11:252.
Event Type:
Date: August-September 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) John H. Moore leads 175 colonists on a two month campaign against the Tawakonis (Wichita). Skirmishes with Tawakonis near the headwaters of the Trinity River near present-day Dallas result in two Indians killed, including a female prisoner.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 32.677784000000
Longitude: -96.529611000000
Longitude: -96.529611000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:21-29.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: from its First Settlement in 1865 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck Co., 1953), 1:352.
Event Type:
Date: September 30, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: White (includes Anglo-American, European) James Lang, a member of Thomas A. Graves surveying party, is killed on the San Gabriel River, forty miles north of present-day Austin.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.610742000000
Longitude: -97.829809000000
Longitude: -97.829809000000
Citation:
George B. Erath, The Memoirs of Major George B. Erath: as Dictated to Lucy A. Erath (Waco: The Heritage Society of Waco, 1956), 24-25.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:30.
Event Type:
Date: September 30, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Coushatta Indian killed by Anglo-Texans at Gonzales.
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.493164000000
Longitude: -97.441444000000
Longitude: -97.441444000000
Citation:
John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (Austin: Presidial Press, 1973), 2:5.
Event Type:
Date: October 1835
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) Three Cherokees are killed in Cherokee territory, roughly thirty miles north of Nacogdoches, possibly by Anglo-American surveyors.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.009037000000
Longitude: -94.664951000000
Longitude: -94.664951000000
Citation:
Mosley Baker and F. W. Johnson, “Report of Messrs. Baker and Johnson to the Chairman of the General Council of Texas,” Telegraph and Texas Register, November 7, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: October 17, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835, Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835, Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Roughly 100 enslaved persons are whipped in the aftermath of a slave revolt in Brazoria near the lower Brazos River. An unknown number of enslaved persons are hanged and whipped to death.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.168988000000
Longitude: -95.431910000000
Longitude: -95.431910000000
Citation:
Sean Kelley, ""Mexico in His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810-1860." Journal of Social History, vol. 37, no. 3 (Spring 2004), 716.
Event Type:
Date: November 1, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of fifteen Wacos (Wichitas) or Caddos raid the farm of Joseph Taylor near Three Forks of the Little River, three miles southeast of present-day Belton, burning the cabin and killing livestock. Two Indians are killed. (Note: De Shields attributes the attack to Kickapoos).
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.973254000000
Longitude: -97.402073000000
Longitude: -97.402073000000
Citation:
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas: being an Authentic and Popular Account, in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Waged between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas, Matt Bradley, ed. (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 132-39.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:42-4.
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 21, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: December 7, 1835
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 A large Comanche raiding party attacks Laredo, taking about 200 animals. One citizen is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.519627000000
Longitude: -99.468612000000
Longitude: -99.468612000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 8.
Event Type:
Date: December 21, 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 Three residents, Ramon de la Garza, Gregorio Canales and Luciano Benavides, are killed in an attack on the town by Comanches Indians.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.508184000000
Longitude: -99.494407000000
Longitude: -99.494407000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 8.
Event Type:
Date: November 16, 1850
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835, Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835, Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) 100 Comanches led by Yellow Wolf raid a wagon train at Cherry Spring fourteen miles northwest of Fredericksburg. Four teamsters are killed, three are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.483261000000
Longitude: -99.009207000000
Longitude: -99.009207000000
Citation:
Texas State Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 16, December 7, 1850.
Event Type: