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Article: Texas's first Declaration of Independence: Jackson County colonists put their dislike of the Mexican government down in writing, but it had to be eaten.
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- Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2006
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Byline: Pat Hathcock
Jul. 30--EDNA -- In July 1835, a bunch of Jackson Municipality colonists -- Edna didn't come about until 1882 -- met at Millican's Gin House on the Lavaca-Navidad River to discuss their dissatisfactions with the Mexican government under Santa Anna. They wrote it all down and it could be called a first Texas Declaration of Independence, but no record remains to verify. Major McNutt, who was carrying the document to San Felipe de Austin, was caught by Mexican soldiers and ate the evidence.
That story comes from Jackson County Judge Harrison Stafford II, great-great-grandson of John McHenry. McHenry was there at the meeting.
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