The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 6, July 1902 - April, 1903 Page: 164
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164 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
tribes in that quarter are all friendly and warm for our cause. It
is expected that the party will intercept some contraband traders
from St. Antonio.
"We daily expect to hear from our friends who have gone to
Galveston for the purpose of opening a port of entry, and establish-
ing a court of admiralty, at that place.1 As that is an excellent
port, with a good harbor, and lying so near New Orleans, we prom-
ise ourselves many facilities in procuring such articles of provis-
ion, which we would find difficulty in getting transported any other
way. We also hope through this channel to keep up a friendly
commercial intercourse with all nations, particularly with the
United States; a government to which we are all attached, and have
long hoped that we would one day or other bre governed by its laws;
this hope having from recent evils vanished, we will now try to
govern ourselves, and -to have laws as nearly assimilated to them as
possible.
"By the arrival of five deserters from St. Antonio, we learn that
there are not more than two hundred troops in that place, and
about eighty in Labadie. These deserters say that if we go in con-
siderable force, the royalists will not fight, but, together with the
inhabitants, throw themselves on our protection. Their situation
at this time is truly deplorable-a person cannot venture one mile
from the city without a strong guard, on account of the hostile con-
duct of the Indians who are continually hovering around them.
We hope soon to protect them from the Indians as well as the roy-
alists.
"We hear of large quantities of wild cattle in the vicinity of
Labadie, which will support our army on its march.
"We understand that strong settlements are forming at Picond
Point, on Red River. The lands there are of the best quality, and
enough of provisions have been made there this year to supply four
times the number of inhabitants that now reside there.
"We are authorized to state that an act has passed the Council,
giving private soldiers, who serve during the war, 6400 acres of
land, which is to be of good quality, and to be laid off in tracts of
six hundred and forty acres. A diminution of 1280 in that bounty
It is interesting in this connection to note the prominence given to the
port of Galveston, as well as the absence of any direct reference to
Lafitte, the enlistment of whose services historians hitherto have made the
sole object of this visit.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 6, July 1902 - April, 1903, periodical, 1903; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101028/m1/168/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.