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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
asked you for Land in June Last you Readyly agreed that to goe and make Choice of a Place a.nd then I was Called on from •time to time that I had not time ontill in Septr and then I Made Choice of one that noone hade made Choice of I Lost that and it was Entered in your Booke By :Mr. ,villiams I have Been Ready for two weeks to go· to work on it or some Place Else if you intend Letting me have any Land or not I want to noe I Come to the Country for that purpose after seventeen months in the Country I Cant Come on a footing with strangers I Can Return from whence I Came Mr. Alley informs ~e :Mr. Cook and Mr. Osborn has taken ajoining of him on the west side of Colorado and that theirs a vacant Place at the m0uth of skull crick Providing you will Let it Be Run as Gabriel Snyders is if you Consent to it you will Please let me no it and oblige yours Judge SF Austin NB Coln· Pettus [was] Present when 1Ylr Alley said what he did say on the subject
JAMES GRANT TO AUSTIN
Camargo 31st Jany. 1825
Coln 1 AusTIN DEAR Sm, I take the opportunity of Coln1. J\filam, passing your .way, to drop you a few lines respecting my interest in your Colony> I have been a great deal absent, but it has been completely out of my power to be there, my business in this part of the Country has been in such a situation that I have not been able to leave, I am now doing my best to wind up, and I will be able to do so about June when I will be on with you; I have to appeal to your goodness to protect my interest with you, untill I arrive my absence has not been with my will, but from the circumstance above stated; which I know your knowledge with the mode of doing business in this part of the Countr.y will fully satisfy you in the cause. I have property ' plenty in the Colony to pay for my land and have directed Capt 0 Jones to do so; by your granting me this request you will confer an oblig~tion on Dr Sir your Respectfully JAJ.IES GRANT [Rubric]
DAVID H. HOLSTEIN TO AUSTIN Alexandria Louisiana-[about January, 1825 ?]
Mr. STEPHEN F. AusTIN; Dear Sir as I have not been able to return to your Colony as soon as I expected I hope you will excuse my Troubling you with this note
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