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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
JUAN DAVIS BRADBURN TO AUSTIN
Anahuac January 24th 1832
l\{y ESTEEl\rED COLONEL AUSTIN • I have seen Mr McKinney and received his information respect- ing public tranquility of which I was previously in possession I hear with .pleasure your proposed interview and should be happy to go as far ns Saint Philipe to meet you, as I consider you very weak from your exhausting sickness, i,f my manifold avocations, and more numerous embnrasments, expecting every moments trops from Matamoros, directing the various sections of Publeck Works on this Point, Land office business, and other negociations, did not employ my existence the most shackled of human beings, yet I shall make an exertion, and will meet you at any place you will appoint on the San Jacinto or the Buffalo Bayo. I have not answered your letter handed me by :Mr. Treet and which threw me into some consternation it might create an arduous, if not an insuperable difficulty in any person placed in my posetion and circumstances to do so without very poignant feeling and com- municating the same perhaps to bis correspondent however our polished atmosphere seems more serene and I shall meet you when and as soon as you please JuAN D.,n11s BRADBURN [Rubric]
BEN R. Mn.AM TO AUSTIN
Wflshington Hempstead County Ark:msas Territory January 26th 1832
To Col STEPHEN F. AusTIN DEAR Srn This letter will be handed you by :Mr. David Roberts of this county whom permit me to introduce to your acquaintance. He visits your colony in quest of some negro property which has been fraudulently conveyed there, by :Morris May,-Jacob and John Buzzard of this Territory. The property is also claimed by one Andrew Pawley who I am informed is now in your colony. The property doubtless belongs to Polly Williamson who holds the same nnder the will of her late husband Robert Williamson who died in the county of Carrol in the state of Georgia. The title of :May Buzzard and Pawley was brought before the court having jurisdic- tion of the.matter in the county of La Fayette in this Territory, the investigation of which exposed the most villanous scene o-f fraud I have ever witnessed. May and Buzzard by an order of one of the judges here, were injoined for a time from removing the negroes from the Territory, but another judge who held_ t4~ CQ~rt after-
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