Ya know, I who have never wrote anything have castigated the popular Texas Historian Fehrenbach here, or more exactly his “Comanches, the Destruction of a People” book.
But I gotta say he related the legend of Britton Johnson, AKA “Niqqer Britt” very well.
October 1864, a few hundred Kiowa and Comanche launch a raid on the Texas Frontier settlement of Elm Creek, killing settlers and abducting several children.
Tho technically a slave, it often happened that “slaves” were often blood kin or at least life-long associates of their masters. No mention of consanguinity is made in Britton’s case but he had a wife and kids and freely bore arms.
In the aftermath of the raid the survivors pool their resources, purchase a variety of goods of value to the Comanches, and Britton Johnson rides out alone into Comancheria looking to recover the children.
I think the Williams in this are Gean Williams ancestors.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
