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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
J. :MAnIANO GUERRA TO AUSTIN
El. Co. Franco Pizarro Martinez Consul mejicano en Orleans me dice desde nquel pucrto con fha. 30. de Mayo ultimo lo Sigto_ "E. S.-.Mr. Ezekiel Hayes, natural de estos Estados, acaba de entregarme la esposicion qe. tengo el honor de acompafiar a V. E. Ella se contrne nun punto sumamt• delicado, pues se trata de recobrar una esclnva qe. segun parece, se lleb6 con engafio a Tejas un individuo llamado Patrick Henry Herndon. Espero qe. V. E. se servira comuni- carme a la mayor brevedad el resultado de la solicitud de Mr. Hnyes, p• con el a la vista destruir las especies a qe. pueda dar Ingar este incidente en este pnis.-Admita V. E. las seguridndes cle mi rcspetuosa consideracion."- 1 • Transcribolo a V. incluyendole copia de la espo~icion qe. se •cita afin de qe. si el individuo qe. se demanda se ha presenta<lo en esa Colonia se sirva V. manifestnr lo a la autori<lnd municipal cle ella p• qe. verifigue su espulsion.- Dios y Lib<I. l\fatnmoros oct• 13. de 1831 Por ausn de S Exn • J. :M. GuERUA [Rubric] Co. Estevan F. Austin.-
WALTER TunNDULL TO AusTIN
Pinckney Ville 13. Oct. 1831
MY DEAR Sm; When I parted with you, I believe I informed you that my fam- ily would be in Texas in December or J anunry, but since my return home, I find it will be impossible for me to do so, I will not be able to remove them before April or May, I shall however be in Texas with my property in December, when I shall make a location and commence erecting Cabins etc. the object of making this communi- cation is a desire on my part not to deceive you as to the time I shall have my family in the Colony. This letter will be handed you by Doct. Phelps who sets out on Sunday next for San Felippe de Austin and will be followed in the course of the winter by his family, who owing to the unusual unhealthiness of this and Louisi- ana consider it unsafe to attempt to travel before winter...:.._ This whole country has been visited with a dreadful Gale of Wind and a great deal of rain which has cut the crops of Cotton and sugar off more than one half and I have no doubt there nre a great many plantations that will not make more than expences- In Virginia and North Carolina they have had an insurrection of the negroes,
1 See Hayes to Teran, May 80, 1881.
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