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law by the death of the former my family has been increased 1 boy and three girls-and in the same time my wife has presented me with 2 girls and 1 boy- So you see when I do come down, I shall come in considerable force in point of numbers, though not in mili- tary strength-and I am determined to come down and settle in that country yet, so soon as I can make my arrangements t-0 close all my business here, which I hope to be enabled to do in all this year When I do come you I think will find me a different person in many respects from what I was when you last seen me- it has been a great source of regret to me the manner in which I conducted myself while there- had I attended to my business as I ought to have done while down I might have left it without any difficulty or trouble about it at this time-but the fact is I cared little about the world or any person in it at that time-I had been harassed and de- frauded by some of my relations, and by some who ought to ho.ve been my best friends-and who professed themselves as such- I therefore cared little what become of myself or a.nything else----but I have since thought and learned better things- Dear Sir yo[u see] I have a large family and had hoped that the [land I purc]hased in Texas might be beneficial to [them and] • • • • to me- I therefore do now hope that [it] • • • may not be wrested from me- I had sen[t] [Bailey] • • • a full power of Atty. to do and act as be thought most advisable for me investing him with all the powers that I myself possessed- you perhaps think it , strange that I put my business in his hands-but I knew that he felt a. very warm friendship :for me-and would make every exertion in his power to serve me- I wrote by Mr. J. P. Fessenden last fall and sent a. package by him to Bailey containing sundry papers of .value to me,-Fessenden promised to write me immediately on his arrival since when I have heard nothincr of him- will you be so good as to inform me whether he has arrived in the colony and if he has taken charge of the packet designed for Bailey I had every confidence in Bailey-and in his letters he states that when I come down, I will find every thing done that lay in his power for me, and whether he is dead or alive I should find it done for my interest a.nd benefit and not his- Dear Sir by devoting some attention to this business you will con- fer a. lasting favour, and possibly it may one day be in my power to reciprocate--- WM. H. SJrERRETl'
OLIVER P. JacxsoN TO AusTIN
Sm: New Orleans February. 10th 1833 I presume to address you on a subject which bas occupied, more or less my attention for the la.st two years, viz, a permanent residence
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