In a message dated 7/10/2002 8:59:53 PM Central Daylight Time, RMan862582@aol.com writes: > Could be that almost everyone was notorious. The Mexican government wanted > fighters who could oppose the Indians. They looked for 1812 veterans, the > harder the better. > > Also, there were a lot of "outlaws" that came from other places to start over or to escape from the LAW. I have quite a few ancestors that came to Rusk, Panola, San Augustine and the nearby vicinity to be able to have land, but not the restrictions that the Government was "inflicting" at the time. Alice Braddy Davis Elmendorf, Texas