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- Gabriel filed receipts to recover supplies that he had taken by wagon for use inthe "Battle of Bexar". The division reached G.Cole's place on the Sam Bernard at mid-day and Santa Ana rested his troops there. On April 10th, their march resumed after they confiscated 20 barrels of sugar and 12 hundred twenty five bushels of corn. (History of Texas by J.H. Brown at Fort Bend County Library. Excerpt from Almonte's diary) " Saturday, April 9 [1836]. at 5 A.M. we left San Felipe with the choice companies of Guerro, Matamoros, Mexico and Toluca with fifty cavalry of the Tampico regiment. At half past 12 we arrived at Coll's [Cole's] farm six and one-half leagues [from San Felipe]. Three Americans were seen who took the road to Marion [Columbia] or Orizimbo [Old Fort] and leading to Thompson's Ferry. We found at the farm a family from Lavaca who came by way of the Brazos. Various articles were also found. The husband of the woman was a mulatto, the woman was white. We sent Wilson, the husband, to reconnoiter at Marion, that is the ferry. He did not return. It rained at night and the wind blew from the north." In the "History of Fort Bend County, Texas" by Clarence Wharton, c1939 Tx State Archives" the following information is available according to Dobie, a researcher in this line. "In those days the road from Columbia to San Felipe did not follow the meanders of the Brazos but passed Damons Mound and Mrs. Powell place on Turkey Creek about a mile from the Bernard, thence up by Gabriel Cole's across the prairie and on to San Felipe." page 72, Chapter VI Settlements on the Bernard pg 64........Only two permanent locations were made by the Three Hundred on the Bernard in Fort Bend county-James Beard, the saddle maker, cook on the schooner "Lively", and James Scott. The other Bernard locations from Gabriel Cole down to James where the south line of the County leaves the Bernard for the Brazos came later. At the time of the Revolution there was a solid tier of Mexican grantson both sides of the Bernard. Gabriel Cole whose survey lies in the Big Bend of the Bernard at the most north and westerly corner of the county, came from Maine [this is in error, should be South Carolina] in 1832 and got his grant that year. In 1835 he joined the patriot army at Gonzales and was at the siege of Bexar in December. In the following March when Santa Anna's Army was on its way to the Brazos ,Gabriel took his family and fled with the runaways. Later we shall see that his humble homestead on the Bernard was the camp site for the Mexican army on its way to the Jesse Thompson Ferry on the Brazos in April. After the Revolution he continued to live on his land until his death in 1846.[Cole probably lived on the Charles Baird Survey at this time. See Act of Congress. 1839, Vol 3, pg 40] Below Gabe Cole's, Andrew Northington from Kentucky came with his family." In the "History of Fort Bend County.......pg 87 "The act creating the County [Fort Bend] and fixing its boundaries was passed 29 December 1837. On the east side of the Brazos the County line began at Bigham's upper line and followed the old line between Harrisburg and Brazoria for three leagues, when it took a tangent to the north to a low elm at the head of Bray's Bayou. by various turns the upper lines returned to the Brazos along the south line of Churchill Fulshear's league leaving the old sailor outside the County Boundaries. Crossing the river here it went up the west bank ten or more miles to the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek and thence over to the Bernard at Gabriel Cole's corner. The Bernard formed the West boundary down to the southeast corner league 8 and from there in a direct line to the south prong of Cow Creek which followed to the Brazos, reaching the river ten or more miles farther down than the starting point at Bigham's."
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1795 - 1839 (44 years)
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