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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
(the dangers of the seas only excepted) •unto·Mr. J. F.= Perry or to his assigns, he or they paying freight for the said at the rnte of forty cents per each cubic foot_ _________________..,._with 5 Sents primage nnd average accustomed. In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said vessel hath affirmed to 3 Bills of Lading, all of this tenor and date; one of which being accomplished, the others to stand void. • Dated in New-Orleans, the 7th day of April 1830. WILLIAM C . CARPENTER
THOMAS CARTER TO AUSTIN
Eatenton putnam County Georgia. 7th April 1830 Colonel STEPHEN. F. AusTIN. DEAR Sm I am informed by Capt James Lusk of the State of Ohio Butler County that he visited Texes about four or five years past nnd that he became personally acquainted with you and yur province my friend Lusk gave_me leave to make use of his name in addressing you, my motive for this address is that I wish to emigrate to your province from the history of Texes I am well pleasd and from the information of Lusk and others that have viewed the province I believe I Shall ·like your province Dear Sir I now· wish you to inform me by letter as Soon as practicable on what· terms I may obtain land· in your province that I may move my family thirty in number twenty of my family is black servants the balance ar a wife and children my oldes Son is 18 years old a daughter .that [is] nearly 17 years of age If I Should emigrate in all probability a considerable number of respectable citizens of the State of Georgia will prob- able imigrate with me Some mac:mnick of difrent Trades Some members of the Baptist and·Methodist ·Episcopal Church Some off hoom are welthy and ranks amongs .those in the first .Circle in this State please give mee a Sketch of the Constitution of ·your province with a Sketch of a code of ·your laws and whether a Sl~ve holding province or not and with regard to religion ·wheth~r a man will bee allowed to worship agreeable to the dictates of his own conciens or not I feel disposed to visit Y<:>Ur. p~·ovince So Soon as I can have a answer from you from-Capt Lusks State- ment to mee it is your wish for your province to bee Settled with good Society as soon as prn.cticnble If I sh~uld npt bee answered by you I Shall visit your province in the com·s of .twelve ·months for the purpose of viewing the cuntry and if I Should ijke make arangement to emigrate there- I .,was born in t~e.•State :of Vir- ginia.my father, move[d] to ,the the~ .frontie.rs of. Georgia ,when.I was a Sll\al ]?oy._ in)he year 1782 .if I Should. move ): .can b1:i~g • • J 1 • • • • ' ' ~ I , • 1 , , , • • ,
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