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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
AUSTIN TO ELIAS R. WIGHTMAN
San Felipe de Austin April 27. 1829
Mr ELIAS R WIGHTMAN . Sm, My object in making the offer of the land when you was here, out of the Jones and Kuykendall Leagues was to enable the families that came with you to have a place to go on to immediately, and not as a matter of speculation- I am now willing that you should take the quarter out of the Jones League in exchange for the part my brother has in the :Matagorda tract-this will close that business and relieve you from the necessity of making an immediate settlement on it- .The families who are at Huffs have all determined to settle on the Bernard, as I am informed-none of them will therefore go to the Colorado- I will give one Labor gratis to any family who will settle on the Kuykendall League west of the river, by the first of october next, he paying for the title- • I return you the two instruments of writing you sent me un- signed- It does not suit me to agree to the alteration you wish for the necessity, or rather the reason on which the offer was made has ceased, for the families at Huffs ns I before observed have deter- mined to settle on the Bernard-and the present arrangement will suit you better than the other, for the Jones quarter is worth two of the Crownover League, and you can remain where you are during the whole season- s. F. AusTIN [Rubric]
RAMON MusQmz TO AusTIN
Bexar, April 30, 1829.
See Calendar.
J. 11{. BERAMENDI TO AUSTIN
Bexar, April 30, 1829.
See Calendar.
DAVID G. BURNET TO AUSTIN
Cincinnati 4 A-lay 1829
MY DEAR Sm
I have for several days anticipated the present opportunity with a full intention of writing copiously to my Texas friends- but the person by whom I send to Natchitoches sets out in the morning Some days earlier than he expected when I last saw him- My time
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