The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, July 1940 - April, 1941 Page: 362
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
lies of whom he wrote to Martinez from Nacogdoches in
October had moved. . . . During December several
other families joined them. About Christmas Robert and
Joseph Kuykendall and Daniel Gilleland proceeded along
the La Bahia road to the crossing of the Colorado and
planted the first settlement on that river, near the pres-
ent Columbus. The other Kuykendall brother and
Thomas Boatright moved a few days later some ten
miles west of the Brazos, and on January 1 [1822]
established a settlement on New Year's Creek on land
which they had previously explored.
The Christmas experience of 1828, in the Gulf coast area, of a
Texan immigrant bound for Stephen F. Austin's headquarters is
told in D. W. C. Baker, A Texas Scrapbook, page 72:
A gentle breeze and fair wind sprang up, and soon we
were off the mouth of the Colorado, and within about
two miles of Matagorda, which then contained two fam-
ilies, who had lately moved down and commenced a
settlement. The next day Mr. Wightman and another
went to the settlement, and returned with the present
of a Christmas dinner, which consisted of some hominy,
beat in a wooden mortar, and the fresh milk, which
were gratefully received and promptly dispatched. The
people of the new settlement, anxious to have it said
that a vessel had arrived at Matagorda, came down to
assist us; the women and chattels were taken on shore,
the little vessel was careened over on one side, and by
main strength dragged over the bar, and soon lay along-
side of Matagorda. Our Christmas dinner, as stated,
was taken on board, and the next day we landed, having
been twenty-two days from New Orleans.
An excerpt from the Narrative of Robert Hancock Hunter,
1813-1902 (edited by B. G. Green, 1936, Cook Printing Company,
Austin, Texas), pp. 11-12, is distinguished by its highly original
orthography in describing a Christmas of 1834.
Pa bought a negro woman, Ana from old man Brown
in Sanphilop, & the next year he bought a nother
woman of Brown, Anas daughter Harriet. I believe it
was 3 years he bought 2 negroes Freeman & Seger, &
the next year he bought a woman Mary, a African.
Father shipped fifty nine bales of cotton down the362
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