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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
uel G. Hardaway8l of Montgomery, Alabama, former member of
the Georgia Battalion who escaped the massacre, in which he
incorporated copies of the muster rolls of Captain Uriah Bullock's
and Captain James C. Winn's companies, which had been trans-
mitted by Governor Pease to the Texas Legislature on January
3, 1855, accompanied by the following message:
The accompanying papers have been presented to me by Mr. Wil-
liam R. [sic] Fannin as the agent of the State of Georgia:
It will be seen from an examination of them that Mr. Fannin
is authorized to receive from this state payment for a lot of United
States yagers and equipment which were the property of the State
of Georgia, and are said to have been furnished to two companies
of the Georgia Battalion who came to our aid during our revolution,
and were massacred at Goliad by the Mexican Army. The affidavit
of S. G. Hardaway, a member of one of these companies who escaped
at the massacre, and who is well known to many of our citizens,
states that the arms and equipment of these two companies were
the property of the State of Georgia, and that they were surrendered
to the Mexican Army at the capitulation of Col. James W. Fannin.
I know nothing in relation to this matter beyond what is disclosed
by these papers, but if the facts are as stated by Mr. Hardaway, and
I have reason to believe that his statement is true, this state ought
to pay the State of Georgia the value of these arms and equipment.
I trust that the Legislature will investigate this claim and if satis-
fied of its justice, that they will provide for its payment.14
On August 6, 1856, the Sixth Texas Legislature approved an
appropriation "not to exceed $3000.00," for payment of the above
claim,5 and Governor Pease, on August 8, 1856, reported the fact
to Governor Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia, and stated: "I am
prepared to carry out the objects of the law."1
On December 27, 1856, William F. Fannin, La Grange, Geor-
gia, wrote to Governor Pease referring to an earlier visit, and
13Affidavit of Samuel G. Hardaway, Montgomery County, Alabama, November
24, 1855 (MS., Memorials and Petitions, Archives, Texas State Library), File Box
No. 33, Memorial No. 75.
14Message of E. M. Pease, January 3, 1856 (MS., Executive Record Book, 1854-
1857, Archives, Texas State Library), Book No. 35, P. 393.
1SH. P. N. Gammel (comp.), The Laws of Texas, 1822-x897 (lo vols.; Austin,
1898), IV, 444.
leE. M. Pease to Herschel V. Johnson, August 8, 1856 (MS., Executive Record
Books, Governor Elisha M. Pease, 1854-1857, Archives, Texas State Library), Book
No. 276, p. 50o9.516
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