"Untitled," Civilian and Galveston Gazette, January 11, 1843

Summary: Reported on a fight between blacks and natives at Cross Timbers. Over fifty blacks had robbed a store and tried to escape to Mexico but a party of Creeks and Cherokees pursued them. Listed the casualties of the battle and the number of blacks that escaped.

It is stated by the Little Rock Gazette that the 52 negroes, who robbed the store of Begelow & Wames, at Webber's Falls and fled for Mexico across the upper and unsettled part of Texas, were pursued by a party of Creek and another of Cherokee Indians and overtaken in the Cross Timbers, about 200 miles from Fort Gibson. The negroes resisted; two of them were killed, one wounded, and twelve taken. The remainder effected their escape.

Source Copy Consulted: "Untitled," Civilian and Galveston Gazette, January 11, 1843, p. 2