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The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
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The Fredonian republican party in Texas has been suppressed by Mexican forces, who captured ten prisoners en route to trial in Nacogdoches, likely facing execution. Rumors circulate of Cherokees murdering Fields, a Fredonian declaration signer.
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"The republican party, calling themselves Fredonians, have ceased to exist, and the Mexican party have quiet possession of the province of Texas. They have taken ten prisoners, who have been put in irons, and marched on to Nacogdoches from the Ayish Bayou, where they were taken for trial. They probably will suffer death; they are strongly escorted by 70 or 80 men (Spaniards) well mounted; to escape is impossible. It is rumored in this town that the Cherokees have murdered Fields, one of the signers of the declaration of Fredonians."
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Texas
Event Date
Feb. 13
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fredonians ceased to exist; ten prisoners captured and likely to suffer death; rumor of fields murdered by cherokees
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The republican party calling themselves Fredonians have ceased to exist, and the Mexican party have quiet possession of the province of Texas. They have taken ten prisoners, who have been put in irons, and marched on to Nacogdoches from the Ayish Bayou, where they were taken for trial. They probably will suffer death; they are strongly escorted by 70 or 80 men (Spaniards) well mounted; to escape is impossible. It is rumored in this town that the Cherokees have murdered Fields, one of the signers of the declaration of Fredonians.