of obtaining your certificate, as the Sec. of War is absent. Their names are Andrew Hitchcock and John C. P. Kennymore.

"Resply Your Excly's Most Obt. Svt.

Charles Mason
Chief Clerk"

President Houston endorsed their applications as follows:

"Let the accounts of the young Gentlemen be audited to the time of their discharges -- allowing two months pay previous to the 24th of December the date of the muster.

"At Bells, 15th March 1837.   Sam Houston."

On November 9, 1836, after Hitchcock's discharge, but before he thus presented his claims for audit, what purported to be a complete list of Fannin's men was published in the Telegraph & Texas Register, with notations opposite the names of such of them as had not been killed, showing the manner of their escape; that is, those marched out to be shot on March 27th, but who escaped from the actual massacre; those spared as surgeons or laborers; and those who escaped death through not having been captured by the enemy -- this referring particularly to those who escaped on Colonel Ward's retreat. On this list, Joseph Gamble, Thomas Horry, A. J. Hitchcock, and John C. P. Kennymore are all listed as having been spared as laborers. Kennymore again entered the military service of the Republic and was a Captain in the Regular Army of Texas for some time.

Many years later, on February 5, 1859, he transmitted to the Texas Almanac, for publication, a copy of the November 9,