THE AUSTIN PAPERP 951 Yo Santiago Bowie certifico que me consta ser cierto que Don Estevan F. Austin pago la cnntidad de ciento y un pesos al arriva mencionado J obn Brown para su carro y buyes empleados en llevar flete del 12°. Bntalion desde el rio de los Brazos al Guadalupe y que yo hize el trato con el al efecto a pedimento de los oficiales del dicho Ba.talion 12°. villa de Austin 17 de abril 1833. JAMES Bowra [Rubric]
AUSTIN TO JAMES F. AND EMILY PERRY1
April 19. :i.833
Dr BROTHER AND SrsTER,
I send you Simon and wish you to keep him at work on the far.rn untiH I return He is a good field hand and will help out very much with the crop. I have some steers and work oxen on peach creek. They run at or near Isham Phillips. Mr. Mathis wants to buy one of the work oxen. Also near Slaughters on the Bernard there are some, and some at Rnbbs place. They are all of the Rabb stock and I believe are branded with my brand. Send and get them or sell them. They will do for beef. There are some cows among them. Your mule is in the prairie below here with Urbain's horses and I have a mule in my brand on the same range. I sold the horses I had at Coles to S. P. Brown. There is a number of head of cattle in the prairie that Hunter collected for me. Fletcher has the list of them $122. worth-all these scattered cattle ought to be got together and taken to peach point or they will be lost. There is 100 head or more. Have them collected and tnke them below or sell them. I think you could get James Baird to collect them. I leave my business with Williams and have authorized John Austin to sell the lots in Brasoria and a lnbor at the mouth of the river etc. I have three eleven league grants in the name of Aguirre and _Vega that I bought lust year. They ·are in Williams hands. Also Juan Antonio Pndilla contracted three leagues of his grant to me in payment of nbout $2000 that I let him have three years ago. John P. Coles is to make me a title for three leagues and a. half of his tract frontincr on the Brassos. It is first rate bottom lan<l • b Just above the Yeagua. . . • I have paid off .Anthony Butler in full and got James Whitesides receipt against the two notes of mine that Butler has-the other notes
'From a photostat copy. The orlgtnal ia owned bf Jodge Norman O. Kittrtll, HooatoD, Tex.
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