829
THE AUSTIN PAPERS
AUSTIN TO ms CONSTITUENTS
July -, 1832.
See Calendar.
JAMES WHITESIDE TO ANTHONY BUTLER 1
Coles Settlement 2 nd
, August 1832
Col A BUTLER
DEAR Sm . When you was here last we had a conversation Re- specting the debts that Mr. Peyton was Owing in this Colony, you Remarked to me that if Peyton would mortgage his property to.you. that you would lend him the money to pay his debts, I told Peyton: of the talk that ·we had, and since that Time he has requested me _to write. you on the Subject, he owns 12 likely negroes, 6 of them likely •fellows, 4 women and 2 children 60 acres of land under good fence ·and in cultivation a horse mill that grinds for the Town and Country Round about it, all of which he will mortgage to you foi· the use of twenty five hundred dollars, and to give you a good inter- est, he has either to sell some of his negroes and land or Mortgage. his property. I had forgot to mention his Town property, it is worth fifteen Hundred Dollars he has heretofore been offered that sum for it, he-has to pay a good sum of money this fall and if he. dont succeed in some way, his property will suffer, he is wiUing. tp give you any intci·est you may think proper to ask. • You will please to give·an immediate answer to this matter if you think proper to· qccomodate 4im I will get Col Thos J Chambers·to do the writing Qetween you and him; .Mr. John R Jones has got two men a·t work a~ the well, but has only got about 30 feet deep in about 3 weaks, work Pit has Caved in all Round & fild up half-way with _sand, has got Timber to.build a very large stable that will hold 30 horses has entered into a writen contract with a Mr Bartlet to put 'the stable on the lots at his own expense for $600, he has got the inost of th·e • l~mber·for building the Dining Room,.and is agoing•to have i( a two Story House, I think it will cost at least $1200-it will take about Ten thousand Bricks.to wall the well, Jol).es says the weli,wjll cost about $300 he says he must have a new post and plank: fence made round the lots the Bricks are made for all the chimneys and, I have a waggon going to Harrisburg after shells to mnke lime,.' I told _Jones that.·I thought that the .improvement he was puting on ·would cost $2500 I wanted to know of rum what he "~ould be willing to giv.e for the Rent, .he said he·had offered·you $400 J?l' . year after the improvements wa.s·compleated, I tolq. him that you had no idea that him ·Jones was going to put such costly improve-
1 Original In possession of Mrs. E. L. Perry.
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