The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 150
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Texas istorical Association Quarterly.
Colonel Almonte, who was in that year commissioned by the gov-
ernment to make a statistical report on Texas.1 Yoakum adds the
information that he was the brother-in-law of J. M. Carbajal, a
respected citizen of De Le6n's colony, in the present county of
Victoria.
It is just possible that Gritten remained in Texas after the de-
parture of Almonte. At any rate, a letter of his in the Bexar
Archives indicates that he had been some time in the country be-
fore the beginning of July, 1835.2 During July and August he
devoted himself unsparingly to the task of restoring confidence be-
tween the colonists and the government, and apparently held for a
while some sort of commission from Ugartechea to report on the
state of public opinion in the settlements. An extract from the
letter mentioned above and another found in a dispatch of Colonel
Ugartechea to General Cos afford all the information that is ob-
tainable on this point. Gritten wrote on July 5 to Ugartechea:
"According to whale Dr. Miller has told me, you want me to give
you a description of public opinion in this district; and I shall also
indicate the rumors that circulate here. This I do, thinking to
render a service to my country. And I shall be happy if I am
able to avert in this part of the republic fighting and blood-shed,
which would be regretable as much for the nation in general as
for Texas in particular." On the 7th, Ugartechea writing of Grit-
ten to General Cos said: "I have allowed to this individual, who
has constantly behaved himself with loyalty and good faith, a sol-
dier to accompany him to San Felipe" to investigate the imprison-
ment of a Mexican courier and the seizure of his dispatches. The
half dozen long letters which within the next two weeks Gritten
wrote to Ugartechea are among our most valuable sources for the
history of the period, and without the support of other evidence
confute the charge against him of treachery to the interests of the
colonists.3 They tell Ugartechea that the great majority of the
'Yoakum, History of Texas, I, 341, note; II, 44-45; Brown, History of
Texas, L 310, 448-450.
'Gritten to Ugartechea, July 5, 1835. Bexar Archives. The letter is
printed in Publications of the Slouthern History Association, VIII, 345-348.
These letters, dated July 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 17, 1835, are all in the Bexar
Archives; and all except the last are printed in Publications of the
Southern History Association, VIII, 345-45-6, passim.
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