Matagorda and Bay Prairie Company
Pledge of Protection
October 9, 1835
 

The volunteers under the command of Capt. Geo. M. Collinsworth, being about to take up the line of March for Goliad, and to give the population of that town protection against military domination, deem it duty which they owe to themselves, to their fellow soldiers embodied else where in the same patriot cause, but more especially to the citizens of Guadeloupe [sic] Victoria, to declare in a clear and unequivocal manner, their united and unalterable resolution to give ample and complete protection to the citizens of this town, and to those also of every other which they many enter--requiring only, that, the citizens of said towns stand firm to the Republican institutions of the Govt. of Mexico and of Coahuila & Texas under the constitution of 1824; and for the redemption of this resolution, we pledge our lives, our property, and our sacred honor.

TOWN OF GUAIDELOUPE [sic] VICTORIA, Oct. 9th. 1835
 

Signed

Geo. M. Collinsworth, Capt.
James W. Moore, 1st Lt.

D. C. Collinsworth 2d. - do

Ira Ingram - cam.y ?

R. Stevenson - O. T.
 

Tho. Anderson

H. F. Armstrong

J. B. Barton

J. W. Baylor

T. M. Blake

J. P. Bordon

Jno. Bowman
M. Carbahall

W. Carleton

A. Constanta

W. Cummings

H. T. Davis

P. Dimitt

Spirce Dooly

Jas. Duncan

Jno. Duncan

T. R. Erwin

Jno. Flick

D. George

R. O. Graves

Jno. Hall

Jno. Ham

T. C. Hamilton

M. Hicks

A. H. Jones

F. Jones

W. J. Lightfoot

D. Martindale

R. Mercer

L. McCullough

W. New

J. L. Osborn

J. A. Padillo

G. W. Paine

B. Rawles

Jas. Rawles

R. S. [L.?] Reding

Thos. J. Reed

A. Scott

Thos. Thomson

Benj. White

Saml. Wildy

N. B. Williams

Signed afterwards at Goliad
 

Alfred Allison

T. Cannon

Jeremiah Day

A. Dessieux [?]

Hugh McDonald
     Fraser

L. W. Gates

Rob. P. Hearn

Francis Keller

Mc. Lambert

V. Loupey

B. J. Noble

H. Riley

Edwd. St. John

Chs. Shearny

A. Smiley

Ira Westover

Henry Williams

Historic Matagorda County, Volume I, pp. 656-657