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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
AMOS EDWARDS TO AUSTIN Davis' Point Galveston Bay Sept. 15 th 1830
DEAR Sm
I have just rec 4 your letter dated 29th August by the hands of Mnjr Lewis, and am very much astonished at the contents; or that part relative our conversation when you was here in april last- you say that agreeably to my request you have held in reserve for me the tract on the north side of Clear Creek between that creek and the red Bluff tract- you must have misunderstood me greatly if you thought I requested you to hold that tract of land in reser~e for me for I never had the most distant Idea of such a thing and it. would have been base in me to have wished to have had that tract conveyed to me after having given it up to ~Ir }.forris for whom I purchased Taylors improvement, which I had previously to your comeing here informed you be letter and 1)1r :Morris at the same thime applyed to you by letter for that trnctr- and he is now on it and has improved it considerably- when you was here you advised me to go and live on that tract at the mouth of Clear Creek and gave as a reason that it would be more to my interest as this land here was poor and that is very rich- and finally said that you could not let me have both places and I might take my choice- my reply to you was that I prefered this place as health was my first object and the land wns good enough for me to make a living on and just at that time Mr Perry arrivd which broke up our conversation- but sev- eral days afterwards- you returned from an excursion with ],Ir Perry and the Surveyors- when you again undertook to advise me to leave here and go to the mouth of Clear Creek and I made you the same reply-that I preferecl this place and was unwilling to go from it as I was satisfied that it is a healthy place and did not believe the other to be healthy-and now I lrnow the mouth of Clear Creek is very unhealthy as almost· every person who has been there this season bas been and is sick- Shortly after my arrival into this qovernment you invited me to visit and explore your Colony before I would settle myself which I intended doing shortly after the rect of your letter but sickness prevented me then but I had fixed my mind on this place before I left Kentucky and determined on coming to it if it wns unappropriated and being informed that it was vncant I applied to you by letter last September for this place for myself and for twenty Lengues around it upon which twenty families would settle as soon as they could remove after I gave them notice- yo~r answer to me was that I could have my situation and as many fn1m- lies as removed with me could have situation but that you could give no answer as to the balance or any more lands untill the Genl.
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