The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 51, July 1947 - April, 1948 Page: 343
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Four John Greggs of Texas
looked on with suspicion.46 The following description of condi-
tions at and near Marshall by a visitor to Texas a year or two
later, after the beginning of the Regulator-Moderator war, is of
historic interest:
I will state that to my knowledge, in the county of Harrison, in
Texas, is a small stream, or bayou, known as "Widow's Creek," and
upon its side, within a distance of five miles, are living ... twenty-
five widows whose husbands were all slain in this unnatural warfare
[of Regulators and Moderators]. ...
Marshall is the shire town of the county, and it would strike a
member of the Peace Congress with amazement, could he but see
the appearance of the men who visit it upon a public day, armed as
they are verily to the teeth. I remember a peaceable-looking, old,
grey-headed personage, riding in, one fine morning, with no imple-
ments of war visible, except a double-barrel and a bowie knife, and
the loungers remarked that he was rather poorly provided for and
"wouldn't stand more than half a chance."47
John and Josiah Gregg left Clarksville about September 15,
1841, with a drove of mules which they intended to sell to the
Cajuns along the bayous west of Baton Rouge and New Orleans
in Louisiana. They took the road south through Nacogdoches
County to Overton, turned southeast near Minden, and entered
Shelby County, going on to Shelbyville and the ferry east of
Hamilton. There they crossed into Louisiana and went on to
Natchitoches and Alexandria, and down Bayous Teche, Vermil-
lion, and Boeuf. From this visit to Louisiana Colonel John Gregg
returned to Van Buren in late October and continued to live
there until 1844-
His second child, a daughter named Alla, was born in Caddo
Parish, Louisiana, on July 7, 1844, while he and his family were
living on a rented place about eight miles west of Shreveport.48
In November of that year he bought a plantation of four hun-
4oH. Yoakum, History of Texas, II, 439; George Louis Crocket, Two Centuries
in East Texas; A History of San Augustine County and Surrounding Territory
(Dallas, 1932), 194 if; J. Villasana Haggard, "The House of Barr and Davenport"
in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XLIX, 66-88; J. V. Haggard, "The Neu-
tral Ground Between Louisiana and Texas, 1806-1821," in the Louisiana Historical
Quarterly, XXVIII, 1049 if.; John H. Reagan, Memoirs (New York, 1906), 38 if.;
Philip Paxton, A Stray Yankee in Texas (New York, 1853), 315-326.
47Ibid., 325. Charles W. Jackson, an unsavory character, had been a merchant
at Shreveport, Louisiana, before moving to Texas.
48Josiah Gregg, Diary and Letters, I, 146.343
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