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Children of Horatio and Anna Maria (Ripley) Bigelow:
1555C.11t Horatio Ripley, b l3 Nov 1813 Cambridge, MA; d 25 Oct 1888 Boston. MA; m 10 Nov 1840 Annie L. Smith. 6 children.
1555C. 12 John Ripley, b ca 1815 (bapt 30 July 1821 at Cambridge, age 6 yrs); d 28 June 1836, aged 21, Cambridge, MA; unmarried.
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol I, pg 254-255;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Sibley's Harvard Graduates;
Index of Marriage Notices, pub by American Antiquarian Society
of Worcester, MA;
vital records Cambridge and Weston;
correspondence with descendants.
History notes from internet:
Dissatisfaction over the "concession" of Texas to Spain
precipitated the last major filibustering expedition to attempt to establish
a Republic within Spanish Texas. With financial backing from the uncle of
his wife, Gen. James Wilkinson, Col. Dr. James Long of Natchez, a former
U.S. Army surgeon in Carroll's Brigade in the War of 1812 under Gen. Andrew
Jackson, raised arms and followers with the objective to establish a Republic
of Texas by connecting with insurgents in Mexico which could be used as a
base of solidifying independence in the whole of Mexico. Long, an idealist
experienced with the futility of war and violence for greedy ends, was a
man of some means and staked his entire fortune on the venture. Soon after
the war he met and married Miss Jane Wilkinson with whom he retired to his
plantation at Natchez. Through presumably Wilkinson associations he became
very familiar with the earlier experience and fate of Phillip Nolan and directly
with individuals having an active familiarity with Texas. The group is thought
to have been encouraged by General Andrew Jackson and others in high echelons
of the USA government, although official policy of the United States was
neutrality in regard to Spain. A force of near 300 occupied Nacogdoches,
then troops were spread with outposts from there to the coast and a government
was established on 23 Jun 1819 with Long as President and Commander of the
Army.
Among his "Supreme Council" of advisors were Stephen
Barker, Horatio Bigelow, John G. Burnet, Hamlin Cook, J. Child, Peter
Samuel Davenport (photo left), Pedro Procello, John Sibley (photo
below from Lindenwood College), W.W. Walker, and Bernardo Guti�rrez, former
commander of the Republican Army of the North. In addition to Long, Vicente
Tarin, former Commandant of the Second Flying Company of Alamo de Parras
and anti-Spanish resistance leader in Texas, was a signatory to Dr. Long's
Declaration of Independence where he is identified as "Secretary."
Horatio Bigelow was a newspaper man who edited
the Nacogdoches Texas Republican in 1819, was captured with James Long and
other members in 1821. He later returned to Nacogdoches, where he worked
with the Nacogdoches Mexican Advocate.
Dr. John Sibley (1757-1837) was U.S. Indian agent
for the Orleans territory between 1805 to 1814. He is credited with
maintaining US-Indian relationships friendly to the United States from the
Sabine River to Matagorda Bay. Consequently, he was an object of intense
observation by Spanish authorities. His correspondence with Thomas Jefferson
and the US government departments as well as to US newspapers were rich with
information on Texas in the period and is credited with shaping US government
policy. He operated from his long time home in Natchitoches and participated
with Long Expedition in Texas.
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