Publication: James Pinckney Henderson (Department of State, Columbia, Texas) to Memucan Hunt
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1837-03-14
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James Pinckney Henderson alerts Memucan Hunt in Washington, D.C., that several men, including Congressman John G. Robinson, were killed in present-day Fayette County by Caddo Indians who had crossed into Texas from the United States. He requests that Hunt ask for five hundred U.S. troops to be sent to the area.