Uvalde County, TX
History

Fort Inge

Image by Larry D. Moore, Wikipedia

Regarding the name of the hill at the site of Fort Inge...

George Nelson, in Preliminary Archaeological Survey And Testing at Fort Inge, Texas, Uvalde County Historical Commission, 1981, says, "The hill at the site is shown on an 1846 U.S. Army map as "Pardon Hill" (Hughes, 1850), which may refer to events linking Joseph Pardon of San Antonio to the site.

Joseph Pardon was one of the Canary Islanders sent by the king of Spain to settle San Antonio in 1732. A check of the Bexar archives shows him to be a senior regidor and an ordinary alcalde in the town government where he issued an edict forbidding the unlawful taking of cattle that were remotely scattered within thirty leagues (Ca. 80 miles) of San Antonio. Perhaps Pardon had an Indian fight or a camp at the site; no other information has been located about this link to Pardon. Another Pardon Hill is in Bexar County.

Hughes, used as a reference by Nelson, was Captain George W. Hughes, in an 1850 writing, Memoir Descriptive of the March of a Division of the U. S. Army Under the command of Brig. Gen. John E. Wool from San Antonio, Texas, to Saltillo, Mexico., 1846. Sen. Ex. Doc. 32, 31st Congress, 1st Session, Washington.

Again quoting from George Nelsons writings, "the prominent rocky hill at the site (known through time as Pardon's Hill, Pilot's Knob, the Knoll, Leona Mountain and Inge Mountain) is the weathered stump of a volcanic plug that rises approximately 140 feet (el. 1021 ft.) above the surrounding countryside."

[Source: "Branches & Acorns" SWTGS Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 2 - December 1990]