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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
Presuming that you will conform yourselves to the present as if it was a letter or regular bill of Exchange and craving your reply through the same medium I have the honor to be Genin. Yr Most Obt Servt MICHAEL MULDOON
Mexico 9 th March 1836
MY DEAR FRIEND GENL AUSTIN Agreeably to your note I send you through Mr. Parrott a certified copy of the protocol now in the land office at San Felipe-signed ·by Mr Williams and Arciniega I cannot accuse myself of any neglect in the fulfilment of my obligations with respect lo those sitios having left all my Dues in the Colony for that purpose, paid the Government in whole and the surveyor in Part, with a letter of three hundred Dollars Mexican Currency-accepted by the very respectable Mr Wharton which I gave you, with, as also with powers to do what [you] might think proper for the final adjustment. Now I beg leave to draw for the entire sum of-Five Thousand Dollars on the house of J. W. Zacharie and Co New Orleans in favor of the said W S Parrott Esqr of this City and Commerce MICHAEL MULDOON [Addressed:] Col Stephen F Austin Washington DC mail
JOHN MARTIN DUFFIELD TO AUSTIN
[Wheeling, May 5, 1836. See Calendar.]
LUCAS VAN BUSKIRK TO AUSTIN
Seneca Falls 5 th • May-1836
GENERAL AUSTIN DR SIR
Permit us (though strangers} to introduce ourselves to your notice and allow us to offer as an apology for so doing a Most cordial feeling for the welfare of Texas-- The cause of Texas is exciting deep and thrilling in- terest in this part of the world- A large and Respectable meeting has been held in this place- the proceedings and resolutions of which please refer to a copy of the Farmer and Seneca Falls dayly advertiser published in this place-which Paper accompanies this letter- It is the opinion of our first Men in point of standing-that a company of Emigrants can he raised in this place and village and twenty five to forty men with a suitable person to ta1ce charge of said company, which company will be ready to march to Texas as soon as pecuniary aid can be furnished them to defray their necessary ex- pences to New York- It is confidently believed the greater part of the
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