THE AUSTIN PAPERS 339 ness for me with full power to do all that is necessary :for me relative to lands in this colony which I hope wi11 be sufficient without my personal attendance at St. Fillippe. he can explain to you the situation of this place better than I <'nn by letter at present, as he has travelled all over the land. Airos EDWARDS P. S. I am requested by my son in Law :Mr. Ritson Mol'I"is to name to you that he wishes to get a league of land adjoining the one I am on, lying on Clear Creek as he intended moving his family on it as soon as he can go home o.nd settle up his business there which will be .next fall early. if is the tract on which Anson Taylor lived and I bought his impronm1c11t.:; and have n respectable family now living on it and there will b~ twenty five acres in cul- tivation this season. it is very desirabl<> to huYe my chilclren nea.r me and if they cnn get the land they will all settle within your colony. I wish also to get a league near me for Doctor Heard who will come here before long and in the mean time I will have a respectable family on it improving the land. .'My son will designate the land for the Doctor provided you consent to let him have it. A.E. [Addressed:] Col. Stephen F. Austin, Aust.in. l\tfonroe Edward~.
AUSTIN TO ELIAS n. 1V1m[T:i\fJ\N
Matagorda Friday March 12 1830
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I have been here and at the old landing opposite this, since last :Monday week, and am compelled to lea.ve for Brazoria without see- ing you, which is a very serious disappointment. It was my original intention that you should have the surveying of all the vacant lands on this river below H. H. League nncl Betts, and all Trespalacios, Prairie, and Cuny Creek below Curtis, and I fully expected you at San Felipe when the Commissioner was there. But you did not come, a..nd •I heard you ha.cl engaged in n schoo] which I of course supposed would occupy all your time nncl ns I heard nothing from you, was left to conclude that you did not wish for any surveying. Notwithstanding this, however, when Sel- kerk came over I wrote you, and stated that this job had been intended for you, and if you wished it, to go on with it, or if not to let Selkerk have your compass so that he might do it, or for you and him to do it jointly, or make any arrangement with him on the subject you thought proper and could make. l\fy object was to get. the work done without delay. About 18 clays after Selkerk left
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