Please help identify the men named or implied in the following 1843 listing.
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Tax Collector James Bourland submitted this listing to the Republic of Texas Treasury Dept. since these were the items stolen in 1843 from a Texas Customs-House by U.S. Cavalrymen after they left Bourland tied and bound. ..The depositions of Bourland and Texas Legislator, George Washington Wright of Lamar County, were taken plus Bourland wrote a petition to Anson Jones, the Secretary of State of the Reupblic of Texas be filed in the Texas courts.
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This "outrageous event" became a major bone of contention when the U.S. Congress and the U.S. State Dept. were considering the annexation of Texas. ..Gen. Zachary Taylor and his ilk on one side and Bourland's ilk on the other.
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In U.S. President, John Tyler, last State of the Union address, he recormmended the the Texas Red River Tax Collector be paid. ..It seems that two U.S. Presidents and their cabinets spent hours discussing this topic that spurred numerous correspondences with attachments.
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In summation, John C. Calhoun, U.S. Sec of State, was instrumental in making sure the U.S. Congress passed a law giving the "late" Republic of Texas $30,000 to cover this "Red River difficulty" that Texans called an "outrage." ... one of only four laws passed during the 2nd Session the 29th U.S. Congress.
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I must include this John C. Calhoun quote that should make all Texans proud of Bourland and his perseverance ...“in the hope, therefore, of closing the discussion and putting an end to this exciting subject.”
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Doak & Timms, Doaksville, I.T. — 5 bales, 9 boxes, 9 sacks coffee, 2 barrels, 9 kegs, 1 small box glass, 1
large cask.
D.& T., Fort Towson, I.T.— 14 sacks coffee, 4 boxes.
D.& T.—112 pieces of castings, 44 plough moulds, 101 bars iron, 9 slabs iron, 4 bundles iron.
D.& T., Fort Towson — 23 barrels, 5 bales, 37 sacks coffee, 1 bale blankets, 1 ditto bagging, 1 box, 36 kegs.
A.P.U., Fort Towson — 5 boxes, 1 barrel, 1 sack coffee
Rev. Alfred Wright, Wheelock, I.T., care of Doak & Timms — 2 boxes, 1 bag feathers, 2 kegs. 1 bundle
mattresses marked C.N.H., 1 barrel
Rev. Cyrus Byrington, care of Doak & Timms — 1 box, 1 barrel
Gerard Olmstead, Wheelock, I.T. — 2 boxes marked ‘C.N.’
Berthelet, Heald & Co. — 29 barrels, 2 bales blankets, 23 sacks coffee, 20 kegs
T.F.—5 boxes, 1 willow carriage, 43 plough moulds, 15 flat bars iron, 1 bundle nail iron, 11 bars rolled iron, 1 bale
twine, 14 bales bagging, 1 dozen teapots, 3 casks, 28 sacks salt, 14 coils rope.
Berthelet, Heald & Co. — 16 bales bagging, 1 bale twine.
B. — 248 pieces castings, 27 pairs andirons, 1 barrel
B., Doaksville — 21 barrels, 21 boxes, 1 cask, 11 kegs, 13 bags shot, 22 boxes, 142 brooms, 31 painted buckets, 2
sacks coffee
Shrack & Nail, Doaksville — 3 boxes, 14 kegs, 4 bales bagging, 2 tin canisters, 1 coil rope, 4 small boxes, 1 large
oven, I barrel.
Shrack & Nail, Fort Towson—8 barrels, 35 sacks coffee, 19 boxes, 19 kegs, 20 painted buckets, 130 pieces castings,
29 sacks salt
Shrack & Nail, Lieut. Wetmore, Fort Washita, I.T. — 1 dozen Windsor chairs, 3 lanterns, 28 boxes, 48 kegs, 10
barrels, I bale, 1/2 dozen spades, 1 bellows and vice, 1 set measures and bunch of wire, 2 wheelbarrows, 1 dozen
sneads [snaths], 1 dozen pitchforks, 1 dozen spades, 1/2 dozen buckets, 1 dozen pitchforks, 1 dozen spaced marked
‘U.S.,’ l large cask, 1 pair wagon wheels, 6 cross-cut saws, 6 spades.
P.J.A., Fort Towson — 7 barrels, 2 barrels, 2 bundles leather, 1 box, 10 sacks coffee, 1 bundle of kid-skin leather, 2
large casks, 25 sacks salt
B.F. Cocke, Jonesborough, Texas — 3 barrels, 3 boxes, 4 sacks coffee, 5 kegs
B.F. Cocke, Fort Washita, I.T. — 5 barrels, 1 box, 5 kegs
John McDowell, Fort Towson, care of Berthelet-Heald — 4 barrels, 6 boxes, 33 sacks salt
J.J. Hillion — 1 bale bagging
M. & G. Brown — 1 coil rope
L.A. Singleton — 3 coils rope
A.L. — 2 coils rope
R.N. — 2 coils rope, 28 bunches twine
R.H., near Scott’s place — 6 bales of bagging, 9 coils rope, 5 sacks salt
B.& J. — 1 box
B.& B. — 2 bales blankets
Joseph Glass — 1 bale bagging
George Brinkley’s — 1 sack salt
J.R.W. — 1 sack salt
B.J.H. — 1 sack salt
G.B. — 1 sack salt
W.B.H. — 1 sack salt
J.B.M. — 1 sack salt
Goods found not marked or numbered: 91 painted buckets, 6 whip saws, 3 stone jugs, 1 stone jar, 1 piece bagging, 1
coil rope, 30 brooms, 4 large willow crates, 7 sacks salt, 1 barrel, 6 frying pans, 64 pigs lead.
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I know this is off topic, but I think it is an important part of the history of Indian Territory.
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Texas records implied that the above inventory had been lost, but was found in records housed in Wash, D.C. .. This listing will be published in future publications, so it behooves us to identify as many of these people as we can.
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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