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their getting a title. Fifty cents must be paid to the secreta[ry] by each one, when the said certificate is issu[ed] and ten dollars must be paid to said secretary on receipt ·[of] title, and fifty dollars to me in one and two years n:fter receipt of title, this sum being for the expense and labor of translating and attending to the business for which we are entitled fu pay. I reserve the right of changing these terms for those who do not apply until after the first of J anY next.
ROBERT KUYKENDALL TO AUSTIN
Bay Prairie 2 4 December 1829
CoLN STEPHEN F AusnN D Sm I have drawn nn order on you for Twenty five Dollars in favor of Mr. Barker which Sum I took the liberty of drawing for from your letter to me Mr. ,vightman has undertaken to teach school for twelve months and the above amt is a ballance due for the pay- ment of a house and lot in Matagorda to enable me to move there for the purpose of schooling my children I shall further more wish to pay through you nt the Expiration of the school fifty Dollars to Mr. Wightman which amounts I will refund to you as soon as it is in my power. My health still continues indifferent I have very little hope of getting much ·better and shall always continue grate- ful for your Kindness to me since I last saw you I have had two sons born (twins) one named Benjamin and the other Thomas. I remain with every sentiment of Esteem RonT. KUYKENDALL [Rubric]
FELIX ROBERTSON 'l'O AUSTIN •
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Nashville, December 3, 1829.
See Calendar.
DAVID G. Bun1'"E'.l' To AusTIN
Cincinnati 4 Deer 1829
MY DEAR Sm . . The return of our worthy friend Gen 1 Fullerton affords me another opportunity of troubling you with a letter- Well now I do verily believe that some of my late letters have been a trouble to you-but I dont see the use of having--a friend-unless we can trouble him now and then-. The principal burden of my last letters (and I have-written you .five or six ·within two months) has been the· probable purchase of
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