Re: Lindsay Harris, Tho. Harris l800 Va.
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Diane Ethridge 2/17/07
I'm unable to find much substance referenceing the Uriah Harris who served with my Ashworth kinsman during the Texas Revolution.The Ashworths of this era seem to have been multi-ethnic Amerind renegades who migrated ahead of the paler European settlers.Prior to the Revolution, the area of Mexican Texas between the Sabine and the Trinity Rivers was reserved for emmigrating Amerinds from the American southeast.One Uriah Harris who wound up in Texas, not necessarily the same, was identified as the son of a family which migrated from Virginia to Illinois.If anyone has clues, they will be welcomed.
Larry
an excerpt from http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/History%20of%http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/History%20of%
20Jefferson%20County/Chapter%206.htm
10 Volumes A, pp. 2, 21, 80; B, pp. 112-1 14, 220, 226, 239, 246;
and C, pp. 43-45, 161, Commissioners' Court Minutes, Jefferson
County, Texas; Record of Retail Licenses, 1839-1851, pages
unnumbered, Jefferson County, Texas. Freeholders subject to jury
duty in 1837 included: James Stephenson, William Gill, William T.
Hatton, John Townsend, C. C. P. Welch, Benjamin Johnson, R. Ballew,
William McFaddin, Uriah Gibson, D. Garner, Joseph Ritchie, S.
Simmons, Benjamin Allen, Robert Hatton, Isaac Garner, Thomas Rowe,
Uriah Harris, Jacob Garner, D. St. Clair, Charles Cronier, Gilbert
Stephenson, W. E. Smith, James Dyson, John Stephenson, Elisha
Stephenson, Abraham Winfree, M. Hatton, B. Arthur, David Harmon,
John Cole, William Hays, W. H. Irion, Elisha Allen, John A.
Caruthers, William Clark, Clark Beach, John Bland, George Allen,
Charles Myers, Silas Parmer, James Simmons, Joseph Young, William
Hatton, Jr., N. Holbert, James Ware, J. T. Robinson, James Jett,
Peyton Bland, John Harmon, Thomas Heart, Elijah Allen, Claiborne
West, Charles Cohorn, T. N. Mathias, Absalom Jett, and Aaron Allen.
The first associate justices of the court were George A. Pattillo
and Reason Green, with John Harmon and Abraham Winfree serving as
county commissioners. Joseph Grigaby, Hezekiah Williams, George
Allen, and Richard Ballew were appointed as the first reviewers of
roads. Thomas H. Brennan was the first clerk of the county court,
and Claiborne West served as the first president of the board of
land commissioners.
an excerpt from http://wtblock.com/wtblockjr/j_h.htmhttp://wtblock.com/wtblockjr/j_h.htm
On October 5, 1835, David Garner raised a company of nineteen
volunteers from what is now Orange County, and was elected as its
leader.14 It is quite fortunate that, since no other muster roll of
it survives, the list of volunteers was preserved in Stephen F.
Austin's Order Book, as follows:
Camp above Bexar Nov. 17th 1835
To Genl. S. F. Austin, Commander
in Chief of the Army of Texas
Having arrived at this place on yesterday with nineteen men, I beg
leave hereby to report myself and company to you and to be
considered as attached permanently to your Army. Enclosed is a list
of the names of the members of my company.
Very respectfully etc.
Captain D. Garner
M. Hattin
Wm. H. Green
Patin Blan
John Willis
John Choat
Michael Green
Henry Garms
Jacob H. Garner
John Haynes
Wm. Ashworth
George Ivens
Uriah Harris
Charles Cronia
John P. Wallis
Joseph Richey
John Dulin
Solomon Cole
The above is a correct Copy of the original this day filed by me.
Wm. T. Austin, Aid de Camp 15
One of the oddest engagements that Captain David Garner and his men
participated in was the "Grass Fight." Most of the Texas militiamen
had received no pay for the two months of their service at Bexar,
when they learned that a large Mexican pack train was a few miles
below San Antonio, said to be carrying a payroll of Mexican silver.
Garner was detached to Col. James Bowie's command, and when the
latter attacked the pack train on November 28, 1835, they soon
discovered that the Mexican teamsters were carrying only grass
forage for their cavalry horses, but no silver. The Texans lost one
killed and two wounded in that affray.16
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