The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 294
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
killed. Their reports were the first to be received, and have been
followed by some of the later writers.
I. HUTCHINSON'S DIARY.1
Monday Sep 5, 1842 Opened the District Court of Bexar No
invasion expected. The third treaty between England and Texas
having been ratified stipulating intervention for the recognition of
Texas by Mexico; and the U. States government having requested
that of Texas to suspend hostilities against Mexico with a view to
its cooperation--peace was believed inevitable.
Friday 9. Late at night Antonio Parez warned John W Smith
in confidence of the approach of 1500 Mexicans
Saturday 10. A public meeting-myself presiding-report dis-
cussed-and generally discredited. The Mexican citizens-100
under Salvador Flores--and the Americans 75 under C. Johnson
-formed and appointed Hays to command the whole. Hays and
six2 others started as scouts, directing us to remain until some one
or more returned. The Mexicans sent out three3 commissioners.
'Anderson Hutchinson was born April 7, 1798, in Greenbrier county,
Virginia. On attaining to manhood he removed to Knoxville, Tennessee,
where he read law and obtained a license to practice. He was located for
some time at Huntsville, Alabama, and then removed to Mississippi and
formed a partnership with H. S. Foote. He followed his profession in
Mississippi about ten years, and shortly before his removal published
in association with Volney E. Howard, in 1840, a digest of the laws of
Mississippi. In the fall of 1840 he opened a law office in the City of
Austin. He was elected judge of the fourth judicial district in January,
1841. By September, 1842, he had prepared a Texas code, which he pur-
posed to submit to the seventh congress for approval, but the inroads of
the Mexicans into Texas during this year frustrated his plan. He had
to flee from San Antonio in March, 1842, on account of Vasquez' raid, and
his family lost their piano and most of their clothing. His capture at
San Antonio in September, 1842, by General Woll, and his seven months'
captivity in Mexico is the subject of the Diary. Judge Hutchinson died in
Mississippi in 1853.
The diary was kept in a small note book, 41 by 7J inches in size, and
bound in limp leather, with flap and band for fastening. The writing fills
43 pages. The original Diary is in the Texas State Library; it was pur-
chased in October, 1909.
2In a letter to the Secretary of War, dated Secguin, 12 Sept. 1842, Hays
says he was accompanied by five men.--Appendix to House Journal, 7 Tex.
Cong., 16.
'In a letter to the editor of the 'Telegraph, dated 14 Dec. 1842, A. Miskel
gives the names of two of the Mexican commissioners, Don Domingo Bus-
tillo and Don Ignacio Chavez.-Telegraph and Texas Register, 21 Dec.,
1842.
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