Mooney & Morrison's General Directory Of The City Of Austin, Texas, For 1877-78. Page: 20
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20 HISTORICAL
cans would not again cross the frontier, capture and pillage
the city as they had done at San Antonio on two previous
occasions. The Archives still remaining in the city the
people knew not at what time another forcible demand
might be made for them by the government, while the much
dreaded Indian was no less hostile and blood-thirsty than
in previous years, many good and true men losing their
lives during the summer of'43 by the scalping knife, among
whom were Mr. Dalson, Black, Donavan, Bell Fox and
others.
During the summer provisions became exhausted and
much suffering would have followed but for the timely arrival
of two loads of corn, placed at the disposal of the
archive committee whose members distributed it where
most needed, allowing it to be used only for bread, for it
was not to be had in sufficient quantities to warrant feeding
it to stock. It was ground on hand mills and together
with what meat, game etc., the people obtained by means
of their rifles, they managed ts avoid hunger in any great
degree. In those days, the shoes worn consisted of a
buckskin upper and buffalo hide sole, all of home manufacture.
The possessor of a suit of tent-cloth clothes was
considered to be extremely lucky. Thomas Freeman, then
"A knight of the shears" prepared several suits for the citizens
from material taken at the arsenal. It is indeed not
strange that with all the disadvantages under which the
city had to labor, that its progress was not over rapid in
'43. In the spring of '44 a wagon load of flour, salt, sugar,
coffee and other necessary articles, arrived from Matagorda,
consigned to Dr. Robertson. Few changes of any note
occurred during the early part of the year, an occasional
chase after Indians and the erection of new buildings
with other preparations for winter consuming most of the
time until fall, when the regular election for President took
place. Anson Jones being duly elected was inaugurated in
November, and a complete change of government followed.
The Congress, then in session, adopted measures for the
annexation of the Republic to the United States, as a mem
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Mooney & Morrison. Mooney & Morrison's General Directory Of The City Of Austin, Texas, For 1877-78., book, 1877; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46838/m1/26/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.