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it will accommodate me Very much. it is true that were it not for the presant difficulties that seround me and over which I can.have no Controll, I should never have thought of Selling my·landed property, but some of my property has to go, and I can better part with that than any thing Else; and when I again Get my liberty if Ever I do I can Acquire Other lands, I am willing to Sell the prop- erty for a price that will warrant a Speculation to the purchaser; this arrangement will releave me; but unless I can succeed with you or Some Other person, I must be ruined in my personal property, and See my family come to want. thare was a verbal agreement between Joseph white nnd myself that he should have half of the Clear Creek League of land, I have always been ready on my part. to Comply with the conditions spoken ,of between him and myself when Ever he had performed his promises, for it intirely depended on his own performances whether it should become an Established contract or not he has never Complied as I shall be Very able to prove, and his death renders a Compliance impossible, yet neither him nor his Estate has lost nor Can they loose one Cent by his fail- ing to Comply, should I make a Deed to that or any Other lands to him it would be intirely a Donation, for by our last Settlement it will be seen that after Crediting him with the horse he let you have and all other accounts that he had against me, he was left my debtor to the amount of 70 or 80 Dollars this settlement was made at his own request and in the manner pointed out by himself, though he did not sny at the time that he abandoned the land arrangement but rather that he intended·to Comply if possible, he has not the least particle of interest in the land in nny way which I shall be able to Establish to.the satisfaction of the world-you will pleas to let me here from you as soon as possible as it is necessary that I should arrange my a:ffares without delay H. H. LEAGUE
AncHmALD AusTIN TO AusTIN 1
New York 10 Octr 1830.
MY.DEAR FRIEND AfD Cous~, On the morning of _the 8 ult 0
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, I put my last letter for you in the Ohio Bag for New Orleans, on that Evening, I observed the arrival of the ~ elson at quarantine, two or three days after Mr Woodbury came up to the City, and told John that he hnd brought letters from.you, but had left them on board the vessel, in a bout a· week subsequent to that, he delivered to John your letter for him, and one fo~ myself ·and three newspapers-I had been calculating on a
1 Orlgina'.[ In p0IIS1!88l0D of Mrs. E. L. Perry. The letter Is unftnlshed.
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