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AMERICAN IDSTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
knows relative to Said Bean makes the following declaration-to wit-that this deponent lived a number of years in the Same Section of Country in the Arkansas Territory with Said Benn and was inti- mately acquainted with him and his family for Six years and was frequently at his house both in Arkansas and on the river Neches in the district of Nacodoches where he now lives-The Said Bean had a wife when this deponent first saw him in Arkansas, does not know where he was married but believes in the State of Tennessee- The common and universal belief of every one was that the said Hean was legally married to his wife according to the laws of the country where he lived-his Father in law was by the name of Met- calf and was well known to this deponent. He had the character of respectable and honorable man and was a Justice of the Peace in .Arkansas territory, and does not believe from the character and standing of said Metcalf that he would have permitted the Said Hean to live with his daughter unless they were legally man·ied. This deponent thinks Bean to be an honest man he is very fond of boasting and telling large stories about his exploits in the M·exi- can revolution and said he was a Colonel of the regular army of Mexico. This deponent cannot positively state how many children Said B. has at this time but believes he has three.
MATEO AHUMADA TO AusTIN 1
El 24 del pasado Julio ha entregado el Ciud. 0 Juan Harris al Comte de la Comp. 11 de la Bahia la Balandra Mejicana y Bote q. V. tuvo la bondad de contratar p 11 el serv 0 de nuestra Republica y cuyas pequefias embarcaciones son destinadas al Puerto de Matag. 4• . Hoy ha sido satisfecho en esta ciudad el citado Harris de 675 p.• q. con tal motivo se le devian, y tengo el honor de comunicarlo a V. pa su devida inteligencia diindole las esprecivas gracias p el empefio q. tom6 en llenar este encargo. Bejar 3 de Agto de 1826. Sr Ten° Cor 1 D. Estevan Austin
LITrLEBERRY HAWKINS TO AUSTIN
Lexington August 6. 1826
STEPHEN F AusTIN EsQn Dr.Sm
I have so repeatedly written you and have never received aline from you, that I have frequently almost determined to decline the
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