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A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo 167
selected a location for his headright land.21 Just when John
Harris entered the Alamo is not known, but it is evident that it
was some days after Crockett and others entered.
In fact, various documents show that most of Crockett's men
were professional men-doctors, lawyers, civil enginers--who had
been enticed to Texas by the cheap lands and the rich oppor-
tunity to make a fortune. They were willing to help, Texas
fight for independence, but fighting was not their sole object in
coming. Indeed there is abundant proof that many of the
young men who came to Texas in 1836, did a good deal of land
prospecting even on their way to the battle grounds. So it is
probable that all of the Mounted Volunteers from Tennessee
did not arrive in San Antonio with Crockett on February 8,
1836, but it is certain that most of them joined him there before
the coming of the Mexicans on February 23.
Reliable documents show that the following list of men were
members of the Tennessee Mounted Volunteers, and that they
either went to the Alamo with Crockett, or followed him there
a few days later:
Age
David Crockett.................. 50. .......... ..Tennessee
Joseph G. Washington............ 28 .............Tennessee
Micajah Autry .................. 43............. Tennessee
B. Archer M. Thomas (B. A. M.) ..18 ............. Tennessee
John Purdy Reynolds ............. 27............. Tennessee
John W. Thomson .............. 27.............Tennessee
W illiam McDowell ................40 ............. Tennessee
Joseph Bayless .................. 28.............. Tennessee
W illiam B. Harrison ............. 26 .............Tennessee
W illiam H. Smith ................ 24 ............. Tennessee
Robert Campbell...... ......... 25 . .......... Tennessee
John Harris........... ......... 23.. .Kentucky-Tennessee
Peter James Bailey .............. 24 ............. Kentucky
Daniel William Cloud............ 21 ............Kentucky
William H. Furtleroy.............22 ............Kentucky
Richard L. Stockton..............18.............Virginia
William Irvine Lewis ............. 28 ... ........ Pennsylvania22
"1Mrs. Mary Lee Harris (Mrs. Sidon Harris) of Austin, Texas, wrote
me on February 15, 1930, that John Harris was a younger brother of her
husband's father whose name was Sidon Harris, Sr. She says that John
Harris was named for John Crockett, the father of David Crockett, and
that John Harris and ])avid Crockett were first cousins and came to
Texas together in 1836. Comptroller Military Service Records, No. 1077,
shows that John Harris was a single man, a member of Captain William
B. Harrison's company, and that his brother, Sidon Harris, administered
on his estate.
22Chapter V repeats this list with annotations, but it seems well to state
here that lands were issued to the heirs of all of these men except two-
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