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the Store house, it is raised (in this place) the Shingles are bawled- the plank is·all sawed and wagons have gone after it-So· that I hope it will be ready by the time Hunte·r arrives-I have no house under wny for the family-you will get out in the Spring and the weather will be pleasnnt, and you can get :along very well untill some buildings are put up-Emily has seen a new country in times long past and can manage very well for a month or two-The fact is I have no one to attend to business and if I undertake to build while I am absent it will cost ten prices. :My advise is ~hat you build on the out lots above Williams; in th.is place on the creek-I think the situation a healthy one- Edwards gets the League at the point-There was no other way of arranging the thing-The tract between the t,vo creeks I think is the best Stock farm in the lower country, and I am clearly of opinion that Stock is the best business that can be followed, and if you intend to go into that business the Clear Creek and Dickensons Creek is the best tract you can get-I am very anxious for you to be here. We can soon fix ourselves comfortably-the family will have.to undergo some privations the first year I leave here tl)e day after tomorrow for Saltillo and shall not be back untill June, and I then hope to see yon all here in health-. I have left my will with S. M. Williams and he has a power of attorney to attend to all my business, there is considerable due me and you can get w·ork and plank etc. without paying money Also I wish you to begin collect- ing cattle due me-I think it will be a good plan to bring a mexican family with me from Saltillo- I have heard nothing from Hunter and am very uneasy abo!lt him-the Brazos bar is very dangerous Galveston must be the principal port- Call on Williams for any notes due me or all of them-and use any thing of mine as if it was yours without any kind of reserve. If I live through these two years, I am done for the balance of my life with all kind of public matters The person who takes this is waiting so I will close by wishing you all a safe journey and 'good health farewell S. F. AusTIN- [Rubric] [Addressed:] Mr James F. Perry · Potosi :Missouri
JOHN P. AUSTIN TO AUSTIN
New York December 16. 1830
MY DEAR COUSIN' I had this pleasure on the 28. Oct per 1vir. Wm T. Austin, who sailed from here,_in the Schooner N~Ison due for Brazos, to which I
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