1':ll~ AtJS'l'IN' 1> A:PERS 861 and tools:- I do not know the whole amount of her outfit; but it is ve1:y evide:i1t that it could not have been much.. The Lively landed the emigrants at the mouth of the Brazos, and was lost on Galves- ton Island. William Little had the charge of the men who came in the Lively: I never saw any of them until after my ret'urn from Mexico in 1823, owing to their having landed in the Brazos instead of the Colorado, to the mouth of which latter river I went to look for them, agreeably to appointment in Deer. and Jany. of 1821 and 1822; and not finding them I proceeded to Bexar and thence to Mexico.· The men who came in the Lively became discouraged, and all returned to the U. S. except two or three. For a part-of the expences to Mexico, I drew on Hawkins; for I had between 300 and 400 dollars of my own money which I brought with me from New Orleans in doubloons. I lost my memorandum nnd account book at Monterey, on my return from Mexico, and cannot" state whnt was the amount of my drafts on Hawkins; but they were not for a large sum:.-I lived very economically, and even endured privations to save expense. I raised $~00 in Mexico by the sale of my watch.· 'When I started for Mexico, I sent into Hawkins my ilegro man Richmond, a stout healthy negro, about 28 years of age: he was worth $800. On a fair statement of this whole matter, what benefiw or aid, have I derived, in the settlement of this colony, from Hawkins1 He aided in fitting out the Lively: he furnished the amount of my drafts for the expenses to Mexico : he could not have been of m·uch aid in sending out emigrants, for he died before there was much emigration. The money which he spent for the goods that Little- bury Hawkins brought out, and a vast sum in the negro speculation of which John Botts had the management, had nothing to do with the colony; and I was in no manner concerned in those speculations, nor ever had any control over them. Both these persons arrived after I departed for Mexico, and left before I returned.-Neither am I accountable for an enormous interest account which, I am told, Hawkins paid in New Orleans, to raise money for the expeditions of Littlebury Hawkins, and John Botts. In. the contract with Hawkins I acknowledge to .hnve received four thousand dollars, but the truth is I hnd not then. received that amount, and never have received it up to this tiine. For, as I before observed, all that ever was spent for the benefit of the Colony, that I have any knowledge of, was the outfit of the Lively, and the amount of my drafts for the Mexico trip: and out of thn.t the $400 dollars I borrowed from Lovelace, and over $300 which
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