Early Governors' Papers

truth that a whole community who were acquainted with their virtues, mourn the loss of the two young men who were slain. They were young men of promise and much esteemed by all who knew them. Porter has left his aged parents & a numerous train of relatives to lament his untimely death; Williamson a widowed mother & her large family of children overwhelmed with grief. We enclose you one of Major Porters advertisements containing a description of the two who have escaped. -

Columbia Oct 8^th 1825

Wm Pillow G. M. Martin Edw^d M Ford M. D. Cooper J. C. Hill Wilson White Saml Cauthers John Ferrel Hugh Douglas C. J. Noyes Ch^r Ford Alexander Ferris G Gallagher M. Rhea P. R. Booker

James K. Polk John [?] [Showp?] Thos White E. B. Dooley H O B. Newsum Joseph Hart Abner Pillow Jas C OReilly David Martin Saml M. Dorrel Robert Calvert P. Nelson David dugger