Atascosito May 23,1827
To Col. Stephen F. Austin
Sir Some days ago Burrel Franks who lives on the Nachez
River near the lower crossing was examined before Henry W.
Munson and myself relative to certain Thefts lately committed in this
neighbourhood— He stated among other things that a stranger
who called himself Hawkins had been at his house—that he
(Hawkins) with one Clement (sometimes called Reno) were the persons
who had comitted the thefts on the Trinity—that they had a
cavalarde of sixty or seventy horses above the San Antonio crossing on
the Trinity River that those horses they had stolen from the
settlements on the Brassos and Colorado—I have thought proper to
communicate this to you for the benefit of your settlement—for further
information on the subject I refer you to Doct Brown who will hand
this—
George Orr