The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, July 1934 - April, 1935 Page: 207
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Location of Tejas Indian Village and Spanish Missions 207
dache settlements were along the south side of the valley of the
Neches River and San Pedro creek, in what are now the surveys
of Leonard Williams, Jacob Prewitt, Hardy Ware, M. Ryan, J.
Hall, I. Young, and Daniel McLean, their principal village,
known as the Tejas village, or San Pedro, being located probably
near what is now the southern portion of the Hardy Ware survey.
3. THE FINDING OF EUROPEAN ARTICLES AND INDIAN IMPLE-
MENTS NEAR THE SITE OF THE VILLAGE OF THE TEJAS
Evidences of early Indian settlements, such as broken Indian
pottery and flint arrow-heads, are found in the plowed fields
along the valley of the Neches and San Pedro, particularly from
a point about two miles west of the older crossing of the San
Antonio road on the Neches River, and from this point westward
for several miles. About four and a half miles southwest of the
Kennedy crossing, near the southeast corner of what is now the
M. Ryan survey, Mr. George A. Moore, about ten or twelve years
ago, while plowing in his field in a low level place, one-fourth of
a mile west of San Pedro creek (as it bends towards the north),
and one-fourth of a mile east of the large spring just east of his
house, discovered a cannon of obsolete design buried in about ten
inches of soil. Its total length was about eighteen inches. It
had a diameter at the breech of about five inches and at the tip
of about three to three and a half inches. The instrument
tapered gradually from the breech to the tip end, was round in
contour, had no trigger underneath, and weighed about thirty
to thirty-five pounds. About an inch from its tip end it had a
spiral screw-thread, so made that another barrel could be at-
tached to the tip possibly to make it longer. On the upper sur-
face near the breech there was a small tube which extended down
into the barrel of the cannon, through which powder could be
poured. In order for it to be fired, it would have to be mounted
on something to hold it secure, but there was nothing on it to
indicate what held it in position for firing. It was made of iron
and was very rusty, weather-worn, and almost destroyed.'
While plowing in a field at a shallow depth about thirty or
'Interview with Mr. George A. Moore. The cannon, now lost, was
evidently of a type known as rabadoquines. Lieutenant-Colonel Sefior
Director Sebastian Semperes (Artillery Records and Library, Madrid)
to Albert Woldert, March 20, 1930.
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