The “Fredonian Republic,” which numbered a handful of citizens, and lasted about fifty days, was set up in Texas, in the year 1832, by one Edwards. See the ‘Narrative of James O. Pattie’ (Cincinn.), pp. 289–91. “Fredonia” is noticed in E. A. Freeman’s ‘Impressions of the U.S.’ (1883), p. 32.
