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Committee on the Texan Declaration of Independence 133
letter from Mr. Kimbal. Childers informed me that himself and
Mr. Robinson, the Empressario, were elected from Milam. Had
an argument with him on the tariff question.
As Colonel Gray continued his journey, his Diary recorded addi-
tional acquaintances he was making in Texas from day to day.
En route to San Felipe, he stayed over night at the home of a Mr.
Foster, and here, in this hospitable home, he met Mrs. Childress.
His Diary thus records the meeting:
Wednesday, February 24, 1836.
Started about noon for San Felipe, . .. Arrived after night
at the home of a Mr. Foster, a venerable old man, a native of King
and Queen county, Virginia, and his wife, of Spottsylvanie County.
. . . They appear to be an amiable, worthy and pious couple.
Here, for the first time in Texas, I heard a blessing asked for our
meal at supper. Found Mrs. Childers here. Had a good
supper,
Further evidence that Childress had arrived in Texas and become
a bona fide "settler" in the Nashville Colony1' e is stated by all
writers that have mentioned Childress to any extent,'03 but G. B.
Franks, "Nashville Colony, March 8th, 1836," in a letter to "Chil--
dress, G. C. Esq., Washington, Texas," is more conclusive on this
subject.'04 The principal part of the letter reads:
To the Convention
Now in Session at Washington
I beg leave to inform the honorable body that during many
depredations dayly committed on the frontier, I have taken the
responsibility on myself to rase a volunteer company to go against
the Indians. I have got as far as Mr. Childress with thirty men
and a small piece of artillery,
G. B. Franks.
Two weeks after Colonel Gray had presented his letter of intro-
"'This settlement in Robertson's Colony was called Nashville after
Nashville, Tenn.
103A contemporary of Childress, W. P. Zuber, who knew him by sight
in March, 1836, in an article on The Declaration of Independence in
Texas, in The Galveston News, June 24, 1900, said: "Mr. Childress
. . . was a native of Tennessee, by profession a, lawyer, and his residence
was at Nashville-on-the-Brazos, in what is now Milam County, . . ."
"'Addressed from "Nashville Colony, March 8th, 1836, received and
read in the Convention."
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