old man from dallas Wrote:
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> M.C. wrote: "Warren Ferris and his survey crew
> east of the Trinity at Kings Fort near present
> Kaufman did have several encounters and a few
> deaths between 1839 and 1841. Those like the
> massacre at Fort Parker in 1836 were probably by
> the Cherokees then settled in East Texas."
>
> M.C., I always defer to your superior knowledge of
> things historical, as you have researched very
> extensively and clearly have learned far more
> about this particular historical period than
> anyone else I know.
>
> Regarding the last sentence above however, I
> thought it was well established that the Fort
> Parker attack was by Comanches. Certainly,
> Cynthia Ann Parker and her less well known today
> cousin Rachel Plummer, who along with several
> others were captured in the raid, lived with
> Comanches. Cynthia was with them for 28 years and
> was welll integrated into the tribe, Rachel for
> almost two years before escaping. Rachel wrote
> two compelling and very literary published
> narratives of her time with the tribe.
You are quite correct - it was Comanches in the Parker raid and now I'm less sure about the surveyors' encounters, although most of the East Texas Cherokee tribe was wiped out in the 1839 Battle of the Neches, there were scattered stragglers about.
M C
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> M.C. wrote: "Warren Ferris and his survey crew
> east of the Trinity at Kings Fort near present
> Kaufman did have several encounters and a few
> deaths between 1839 and 1841. Those like the
> massacre at Fort Parker in 1836 were probably by
> the Cherokees then settled in East Texas."
>
> M.C., I always defer to your superior knowledge of
> things historical, as you have researched very
> extensively and clearly have learned far more
> about this particular historical period than
> anyone else I know.
>
> Regarding the last sentence above however, I
> thought it was well established that the Fort
> Parker attack was by Comanches. Certainly,
> Cynthia Ann Parker and her less well known today
> cousin Rachel Plummer, who along with several
> others were captured in the raid, lived with
> Comanches. Cynthia was with them for 28 years and
> was welll integrated into the tribe, Rachel for
> almost two years before escaping. Rachel wrote
> two compelling and very literary published
> narratives of her time with the tribe.
You are quite correct - it was Comanches in the Parker raid and now I'm less sure about the surveyors' encounters, although most of the East Texas Cherokee tribe was wiped out in the 1839 Battle of the Neches, there were scattered stragglers about.
M C