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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
SAUCEDO TO AUSTIN •" Para conocimiento del comicionado q. debe nombrar el Gobierno para esa Colonia acargo de V. espero q. ala brevedad mas posible me remita V. una noticia del numero de Colonos q. necesitan ser metidos en poseciones de tierras q. seles repartan con arreglo ala Ley, sirbien- dose al mismo tiempo de propone:one dos personas q. meresc::m su confiansa y satisfaccion y en quienes concurran las qualiclades de honrrades, decinteres, ciencia, y conciencia para q. sirvan de Agri- mensores en la Colonia deV. y enla de Gren de'\Vitt. Dios y Iibertad." Bexar 3, de abril de 1826 JosE ANT 0 SAUCEDO Sor. Tento Corn 1 Dn Estevan Austin
JOHN p. Co LES TO AUSTIN
Bravo-6 th April 1826
DEAR sm '\Ve have been Looking for you for a week past at this place Doct. Robertson has Returned Home To Tennessee without Effecting any considerable object in tlie country above he has written me and says that he wishes the authority of this Colony to Extend above untill ther should be forty familys settled in that Colony I am Now Re- quested to Remove Early who has put them all at defiance and says that he will hold his place in spite of them and threttens the Life of the Barrer of this who is the owner of the Tract of Land that he is on Maj. Sterling C. Robertson what should I doo in this case shall I put Early off or not JNo P CoLES [Rubric] [Addressed:] Col. S F Austin San felipe de Austin P. Maj Ro~- ertson AUSTIN TO MATEO AHUMADA l The Captain of the Militia of the Colorado District, James J. Ross, transmitted to me the following report bearing date of the 4 th Instant. "In compliance with your orders of the 28 th of last March, in which you inform me that a party of Tahuacanos had left their villages on their way to the Colorado, under the pretext of looking for the Tancahues, and order me to watch and attack them if they should be seen in this neiCThborhood; I lost no time in sending spies to the b , frontier, and yesterday, at noon, I received informa~ion ~hat sixteen Indians of said nation had arrived near the settler Asa Anderson's house, about five Leagues below the road to La Bahia on this river. , Trnnslntlons from Bexar Archives, In Nnrogdoches Archives, Texas State Library. There ls a copy of the Spanish in Aust.Lu's Blotter, in Die of August 20, 1824.
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