The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, July 1922 - April, 1923 Page: 271
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Memoirs of Major George Bernard Erath
the members of the company, and exchanging many expressions
of friendship and esteem, we set out at once. We rode through
a section of country which is now in Washington County,
passing the scattering houses by the way; all were deserted
by their owners, but unmolested by Mexicans, with supplies
and meat still hanging in the smokehouses. We reached Porter's
the next day, Thursday, the 19th of May, in the lower part of Rob-
ertson's colony, which had in the meantime been changed by the
Convention to Milam County. It will be called so by me after
this, and I may here state that about eighteen months later the
congress of the Republic formed two counties out of it, making
and calling all of that portion east of the Brazos River Robertson
County, and retaining the name of Milam for the portion west
of the Brazos embracing all the tributaries of that stream north
and northwest of the San Antonio Road to the head of the Brazos.
A little later about seven or eight hundred square miles below
the San Antonio Road to the Yegua were added. All of this
territory now comprises about twenty-five counties, covering about
twenty-five thousand square miles, and is still known as Milam
Land District.
Much to our joy we found Porter and his family and some of
the neighbors had returned. They had fled as far as the Trinity,
but came back immediately after San Jacinto. Property was un-
damaged, as the Mexicans had not devastated east of the Colorado
that high up the country. My cattle were all there except one
horse that was carried off by a Mexican who had lived with an
American family in pretended loyalty to Texas, but had disap-
peared at the same time my horse did, before the departure of
Porter and others during the Runaway time. This was all the
loss I sustained, and Porter and my friends had hunted that
horse for me before they left.
Everybody got busy working out crops, and I helped Porter.
But the people on the frontier had cause to be apprehensive of
Indian attacks. A few families higher up the country who had
not run away before, now after the Mexican scare was all over,
moved down to the settlements for protection. About the first of
June came the news of the capture of Parker's Fort by the In-
dians; it created general consternation. For the protection of271
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, July 1922 - April, 1923, periodical, 1923; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101084/m1/277/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.