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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
married in Tenessee about 20 years of age and has three children 2 boys and one girl SHIRISE DOOLEY? N B Ma. BoRDEN, DEAR SIR Mr. Tone will make the entry for me yours etc ANDREW L PHINNEY [Addressed:] Mr. Gail Borden At his Office San Filipe Texas By the Politeness of Mr T J Tone
TRIAL OF TOMAS GARCIA FOR DESERTION [Anahuac, July 20, 1835.]
DANIEL AYERS TO GAIL BORDEN, JR. [Stone Cottage Montville, July 22; 1835. Various land deals.]
ISHAM B. PHILIPS TO GAIL BORDEN, JR. [Mount Pleasant, July 23, 1835. Getting land title for Lewis Neal.]
SUB-CONTRACTORS OF GALVESTON BAY AND TEXAS LAND COMPANY TO SANTA ANNA [New York, July 25, 1835. See Cl!lendar. The petitioners were Thomas E. Davis, Gilbert L. Thompson, Joseph L. Joseph, and J~mes Prentiss. In 1831 and subsequently they sent 120 families to Texas-mostly Europeans -but rejected by Teran. Have expended large amounts for agents and sur- veyors. Now have agents and mechanics in Texas constructing mills and preparing farms. Petition for grant to settle 1200 families before January l, 1838. Itemized expenses: Consideration paid for contract, $62,000; charter of vessels for colonists and freight, and for machinery, $24,000; machinery for spinning cotton, to be delivered October 1 at Galveston, $23,500.]
CHARI.ES MESSER TO GAIL BORDEN, JR. [Peach Creek, July 27, 1835. Applying for land.]
JEFFERSON GEORGE TO GAIL BORDEN, JR. [Peach Creek, July 27, 1835. Wants land for Thomas J. Williams, resident of Texas fourteen years. Twenty-eight, married, two children; wife, nineteen, emigrant from Missouri.]
ASA BRIGHAM TO JAMES f. PERRY [Jurisdiction of Columbia, July 29, 1835. See Calendar.]
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