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be a breaking up of the Govt. But there is no prospect that they will succeed at present. In October the time expires for locating grants. See that '\Villiams attends to all that business a.ncl also to Padillas-clont neglect this. Also try and collect something on the notes due me. I shall spend about 2000 Dollars or probably 2,500 on this trip and as I am labor- ing for the common good no honest man will refuse to pay what he justly owes me. • Were it not for you and Emily and the Old Settle·rs I doubt whether I Should not remain here for a year or two-that is unless the revolution continues, for then no one will be safe here. I have recd. one letter from Texas since I left there. from John dated in June-I have written every mail since I arrived here, I hope the family are all well at Chocolate Bayou. I have more confidence of health there than at peach point I do not know whether '\Villiams has returned-or not-he was to have left Mobile about the middle of July as he wrote me from there. Tell John to keep clear of land speculators. I had rather herd with devils than with that class of mankind. I am unhappy that I do not hear from you-how are the children- what kind of a crop-how is Stephen (my brothers boy) and your S. F. A- There were 43000 sick here at one time ·The deaths I believe ha,e been about 18000. I have never witnessed such a horrible scene of distress and death. The common people in a part of the state of Puebla got an idea that the ,vater was poisoned by the foreigners and they massacred seven frenchmen in one village-all the foreign- ers in that place. Remember me to H Austin and Phillips and his wife and to your neighbors-tell Henry that he must not neglect to locate his other League o-f land before the time expires. I cannot tell when I shall get home I intend to persevere to the end and effect what I came for if I can regardless of time or expense. S. FA. neighbors and a thousand things, :My health is good at this time farewell
AUSTIN TO JAMES F. PERRY
~1exico October 2 1833
Dr Brother, I am so much afflicted by accounts of the deaths by cholera in Texas that I can scarcely write anything, I have heard of John Austin, his wife and child and of my [dead] sister's daughter ~1ary. • • • Cap. Martin. Good God what a blow. And whether it has taken
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