The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 7, July 1903 - April, 1904 Page: 156
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156 Texas Historical Association Quarterky.
Colonel Piedras informed the Political Chief of his acceptance
in the letter following, while at the same time he requested fur-
ther instructions:
"His Excellency the Governor of the State, in his official note
of 22d of March, has been pleased to commission me to adjudge
lands in right of property to the families composing the Cherokee
tribe of Indians, transmitting to me also instructions for my gov-
ernment, and having accepted the appointment for the purpose of
preserving better order on this frontier, I inform your Lordship
of the same, as one of the first duties imposed upon me by this
appointment, and I await that you may be pleased to communi-
cate to me your orders, and give me instructions for the better dis-
cL.rge of it, craving you will communicate to the Civil Authorities
the necessary orders in relation to the matter, as may be requisite
to effect the object required."'
Additional instructions were sent to Colonel Piedras by the Gov-
ernor on the 9th of August ;2 but before they had been issued, Col-
onel Piedras had been expelled from Nacogdoches by a party of
Texans.3 This event terminated the measures that had been taken
to put the Cherokees in possession of their lands; despite the fact
that General Teran, heartily seconded by Governor Letona, had
been very anxious thus to ensure the friendship of these Indians.
Before the claims of the Cherokees were again brought forward
important changes took place in the body of officials upon whom
the management of this business devolved. With Piedras's expul-
sion the garrison at Nacogdoches withdrew to San Antonio and
never returned. General TerAn, "a genuine monarchist" and the
colonists' "archenemy" committed suicide, and his position of com-
mandant of the Eastern Internal States was filled by the appoint-
ment of General Vicente Filisola in January, 1833. General
Filisola was himself one of the Texan empresarios, having obtained
a permit, October 15, 1831, to colonize 600 families within a dis-
'Joss de las Piedras to Ramon Musquiz, May 7, 1832. Translations of
Impresario contracts, 91.
"Governor to Jose de las Piedras, August 9, 1832. Nacogdoches Archives.
8Col. Ballock's report of the engagement at Nacogdoches. Brown, His-
tory of Texas, I 192.
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