THE AUSTIN PAPERS 69 this plnce with my family, untill I take a ride through and view the different parts of the Country and make my selection for a per- manent Settlement.- I have just received your message by ~iajr M. A. Hearn ll.nd intend to visit you as soon ns I possibly can, n:fter making the necessary provisions for the comfort of my family during this season as they will have to remain in this place until I explore, select a situation and provide the necessary buildings £or their comfort-my wish and intention is to try to procure a_,good healthy situation as near the Gulf as I can find such an one and as near the scite as possible that will most probably be the principal seaport of the Country, and I shall wish your advice and assistance in making such selections so far as you can give them to me without too much trouble and inconvenience to yourself. I believe that you have a better general knowledge of the Country than any other man in it, and that you will give me the most correct information in your power relative to the C0tmtry generally, and particularly that part binding on the Gulf. I have a considerable interest in the Nash- ville Companys Grant and it would probably be more to my interest to settle in that Grant than any other part of the province-as I could induce a great many families to emigrate to the section of country, that I select for my residence, but I begin to think the Grant will never be colonised by the present Company, unless some three or four of us will take all the trouble upon us pay all the expense and undergo all the privations clangers and difficulties of colonising the Grant and then give the balance of the company their full share of the lands without any charge. I was in Nashville in March last and prevailed on the Directors named in the late Grant to have a meeting and try to make the necessary arrangements for colonising the Grant and forward instructions forthwith to Majr League on that subject, call in their Old scrip and mn.ke riew scrip agreeably to the form you gave them. they promised me that they would do so and calld a meeting which was attended by a bare majority and they only talked of what they would do and concluded to call an- other meeting in a short time when they expected to have a full Board and then would do every thing necessary and immediately thereafter commence operations in every way necessary for colonis- ing and promised to inform me what they did before I left Ken- tucky, where I remained untill th~ 3 4 • of ?rfa.y and heard nothing more from them Most of the Directors bold very small interests in the Grant viz. 1 8/ of a share and they care very little about it as scarcely one of them ever intend emigrating to the Country. I should probably have settled in tha.t Grant if the Company had done what they ought, to colonise it, but as they have not I have
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