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"Indian agent, merchant, planter; born in Stokes County, N.C., in
1784; son of James and Elizabeth (Strother) g.; married Ann, 1812.
Asst. factor govt. trading house, Stephens, Miss. Territory, 1805-19;
Indian agent. on Spanish Boarder; largely responsible for success of
American trade with Spain; Member of Alabama Senate, 1825-27; Died in
Mississippi, January 21, 1873."
Source: Who Was Who in America, Revised Ed., Historical
Vol., Chicago, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1967.
It would appear, by the annexed extract from the Texas
Telegraph, that the people of that province are not particularly in favor of having
more Indian neighbors:
"Those tribes are
the same which have been removed to the 'far west' by the government of the United
States. We noticed, in a conspicuous paper, and which has always advocated the cause
of Texas, that in speaking of the Seminole war, and its consequent disasters, it
said it clearly pointed out the necessity of removing the Indians west of the Mississippi.
If the Indians east of that river are sufficiently formidable to hold the citizens
in dread, in a country, too abundantly furnished with every means of defence, the
citizens of Texas and the western states of Mexico surely have reason to apprehend
hostilities from al the Indian tribes which have, from time to time, been sent on
to their borders, unless the government of the United States take precautionary
measures for keeping them in check. This they are in duty bound by the treaty to
do, as well as to protect its own citizen on the frontiers, and which, we consider,
the only and primary object of the military movements under the direction of General
Gaines on the eastern borders of this country."
Arkansas Gazette, November 22, 1836
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