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AMERICAN HISTOIUCAL ASSOUIATION
ting all my children to settle near me I will [try] to be at your house about the ... [mutilated] agreably to your request when I hope you [will] give me a title for this place on which I have spent a great deal of labour and money- .A.Mos Eow ARDS Col. Stephen F. Austin San Felipe de Austin
s. REED TO AUSTIN
Matamoras, September 15, 1830.
See Calendar.
ROBERT WILSON TO AUSTIN
Mattamoras 16th Sept 1830
Col. S. F. AusTIN MY VALUED FRIEND I have been in this place for sometime wait- ing on the vessel, which is promised freight- I calculate to sail in a few days, I was Kindly received In this place by General Terran, Col Brad• burn and others, We Expect to be full of Troops for the Trinity Station, Col. Brad• burn, the Commander etc-with whom I am pleased General Ter- ran will° march by land, shortly, Texas begins to Excite Much Interest It appears to me, and many think with me, that It must be aplace, of Peace and Safety-Con- sidering the great difficulties in the Government- I have positively stated our faithfulness towards the Government, and that there is nothing to fear from the Americans, Provided they Are believed, And not Imposed upon-we are Viewed with a Jealous Eye, In Texas Owing to the Jealousy of England, I have seen a New York paper, Containing the debates in Parliarrnent, By·Huskisson Bearing Peal, and others-who toutch hard on us-Calling us squatters, Turbulent, and·an ungovernable sett-and show the United States, as Reaching for the Country- I hope you have or will see the papers- But Sir we are safe, in 'Pexas, Only let the Cittizens be true to their Contracts, notwithstanding, the J ealouses of the Gov- ernments-- I now Sir, before I close ask a favour of you, It is th:is, a Mrs Reed, of New Orleans was pleased with the discription which others and myself gave her of Te~as she, agreed and vissitted, In July last-and Intended to have seen you-but understanding you was not home she declined- her Intention was to get land, and as she has a family and will be a Valuable Cittizen, I ask for her,
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