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Fremont accomplished all that was required of him and then returned to Fort Laramie sometime in September. During the expedition I performed the duties of guide and hunter. But when we returned to Fort Laramie I quit Fremont's employ he continuing his march for the States, by the same route as that by which he had come. I went Bent's Fort in January 1843 & then departed for Taos. In February of that same year I married Senora Josepha Jarrimillo? a daughter of Don Francisco Jarrimillo?. I remained in Taos till April then started for the States with Bent and St Vrain. I was hunter for the party and continued as such till our arrival at Walnut Creek? where we found Capt. ?? Cook encamped with four companies of Dragoons, he informed us that a train belonging to Genl.Armijo was a short distance in his rear. Their party had a great number of wagons and about one hundred men, Mexicans and Americans. Capt. Cook had received word that a larger band of Texans were at a crossing of the Arkansas river, awaiting the arrival of Genl.Armijo The purpose was to capture it and kill and take as many Mexican prisoners as they could in revenge for the treatment Genl.Armijo had given them when they were in his power. We concluded to inform Genl.Armijo of the predicament he was in. It was also arranged that our Dragoons were to guard the Mexican party to the Arkansas River and that after the departure of the American troops Genl.Armijo should depend on his own soldiers for protection. I was spoken to in regard to the carrying of the letter to Genl.Armijo in SantaFe I was offered $200.00 for the performance of the duty