Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 11, July 26 through October 14, 1835, Nashville-on-the-Brazos Page: 69
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McLean, PAPERS CONCERNING ROBERTSON'S COLONY IN TEXAS, Volume XI
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together. There also came about this time the Powers and McCanlis
families. When the party arrived at their destination only two
settlers had preceded them, and they were living in a camp. One of
these was James McLaughlin. When the Boales party arrived at the
Brazos, opposite the place where they wished to settle, they had to
stop and build a boat before they could cross their effects to the
prairie and bluff on the other side. . . .
Although the wording used above by Sowell gives the impression
that Calvin Boales arrived in Robertson's Colony and settled at the
future site of Old Nashville in 1834, other, contemporary evidence
shows that the year was probably 1835. In the Spanish Archives of the
General Land Office in Austin there is a manuscript volume entitled:
"Surveys made in the Nashville Colony under the authority of the
Commissioner Guillermo H. Steele (i.e. W H Steele) in the year 1834,"
and that volume contains a section headed: "A list of Colonists recvd.
since the passage of the Organic law in the Nashville Colony." This
list shows that Calvin Boales was not sworn as a Robertson colonist
until December 27, 1835. He was from Mississippi, 35 years of age, and
his family consisted of his wife Francis, 24; and the following
children: Dabney M., 9; James, 7; Elisabeth, 4.
The Tandy family was sworn a little over a month later, on
January 30, 1835. It consisted of Ralph Tandy, 55, from Alabama; his
wife, Matilda, 49, and five children: William M., 24; Albert M., 22;
Ralph A., 17; Mary E., 13; Christopher, 8.
Nobody by the name of Billy Smith was sworn as a Robertson
colonist.
When we come to Billy Moore, though, that is a different story:
there were two William Moores and one William H. Moore. The first
William Moore, age 47, from Tennessee, was sworn on January 10, 1836.
His family consisted of his wife, Sally T., 42, and five children:
George W., 18; Nancy D., 16; William, 14; Elisha P., 10; Eliza, 8.
The second William Moore (probably the one mentioned by Sowell,
since he was sworn on the same day as Tandy, Powers, and McCanless) was
38 years of age, from Mississippi, and he was sworn on January 30,
1836. His family consisted of his wife, Sarah, 34, and six children:
Mary Ann, 15; Martha E., 9; twins: Willis Bishop and William Hanson, 6;
Sarah Abigail, 5, and Alexander Campbell, 2.
The William H. Moore, who is listed in the Collection of Mrs.
T. S. Sutherland, Sr., on an undated memorandum, was 37 years old, from
Mississippi. His wife, Lucinda, was 31 years old, and they had five
children: Sarah, 13; Martha Ann, 11; Robert, 10; James, 8, and David,
2.
We do not have any record of a Jerry Bailey, but, if that was a
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McLean, Malcolm Dallas, 1913-. Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 11, July 26 through October 14, 1835, Nashville-on-the-Brazos, book, 1984; Arlington, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91048/m1/73/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .