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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
the stratigem were permitted to depart on their journey from the
count[r]y.73
Dr Hoxey74 informs me that the commander of this party who com-
manded also at the attack at Nacogdoches, was afterwards hung for
murder.75 He was a man of tolerable fair character, popular with the
people & had property. A pedlar had been murdered & robbed, and
one of the party committing the murder, turned states evidence &
swore that this man (the commandant) whose name I don't remember,
together with another were the murderers; whereupon he was tried 8c
executed together with his other accomplice, both protesting their in-
nocense to the last under the gallows....
My Journey Continued
I left Nacogdoches Tuesday 28th July 1835 in company of a man
named Frank Adams living near St Philipe. I left in extremely bad
health, coughing blood &8 burning with the bilious fever; the weather
extremely hot; my sufferance was excessive; about 17 miles we
reach[ed] a house (Mr Costleys)76 where I was so entirely overcome
Durst's. Hattie Joplin Roach, A History of Cherokee County (Texas) (Dallas, 1934), 5;
Crocket, Two Centuries, 159.
730n the morning of August 3, a small band of Texan volunteers ambushed and cap-
tured the retreating Piedras and his men at Durst's crossing on the Angelina River.
Piedras turned over his command to Francisco Medina, who immediately declared for
Santa Anna. Henry S. Foote, Texas and the Texans; or, Advance of the Anglo Americans
to the Southwest (2 vols.; Philadelphia, 1841), II, 22-25; Louis J. Wortham, A History of
Texas, From Wilderness to Commonwealth (5 vols.; Fort Worth, 1924), II, 39-42.
74A Georgian, Asa Hoxey studied medicine in New York and practiced for ten years in
Mobile, Alabama. In 1832 he moved with his slaves to Washington County, Texas, and
established two plantations. He was an organizer of the Washington Townsite Company,
which promoted the town of Washington-on-the-Brazos. Dr. Hoxey represented Washing-
ton County in the Consultation, and in 1835 he served on the General Council. Although
he did not actively practice medicine in Texas, he was appointed medical censor of the
Republic. Webb, Carroll, and Branda (eds.), Handbook of Texas, I, 856.
75Dlffering accounts name, as commander of the small band of volunteers, Colonel
James Bowie and James Carter, "an old citizen of Nacogdoches." Crocket, Two Centuries,
158. There is, however, no evidence that either was "afterwards hung for murder." Brown,
History of Texas, I, 191.
76Michael Costley settled in the Ayish Bayou District about 1832; he laid out the town
of Douglas on land purchased from John Durst In 1836 Costley commanded a company
of Texas Rangers against the Cherokees. At the time of Lamar's visit, he was a twenty-six-
year-old farmer with a wife and one child. In 1837 he was killed by the first district clerk
of Nacogdoches County, W. R. D. Speight. Ericson, Nacogdoches, 35; Nacogdoches County
Tax Rolls, 18g7 (Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin); Blake, "Research Collec-
tion," LIII, 356.312
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