1608
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
The people here seeme industrious, and are useing much exertions to plant corn etc they are all in good health. They are anxious that the Colo. should appoint some person as an agent in fact to manage his business--think of this--and perhaps you had better write to him- "\-Ve have had a great [d]eal of rain; so much that we can not plant: JAl\IBS KERR Note Please writ~ to me by the first opportunity [Addressed:] Col 0 S. Austin San felipe de Austin Care of Major Philips Colorado 26 th February Capt Lockhart has just came from Gonzales and [states] that, he quit surveying and joined the settlers and assisted in building the fort--that they resolved to keep the place etc and that they [are] planting corn there. He will return tomorrow. Could a small piece of arteary [artillery] be obtained from the Govt. it would no doubt be of great utility to that place-would be glad if you would mention this to His Excellency the Chief of the Depart- ment. JAl\lES KERR
J. TATE TO AusTIN
Naggaitotches Feby. 27 th 1827.
CoL. STEPHEN F. AusTIN, Sm On the subject of a conversation I had with you at this place I beg leave to have liberty of submitting the following observations to your consideration and remarks thereon- Having reported myself to you with a wish to become a settler but from various adverse occurrences in my business has as yet prevented My making a permanent settlement in your colony. although I have made a selection of Land partly in yours and in leftwicks but from an interruption in the settlement on the land by the indians I have changed my views which can only be realised by your approbation. To constitute the plan I would propose to select a League of land for Myself adjoining some of your reserve lnnds most properly adapted to the cultivation of sugar Cane that you would add a league of your land or m't>re i:f thought necessary to effect the purpose; that complete Titles be made out to satisfy any person that it would be proper to make interrested in order to raise a fund sufficient to accom- plish the establishment of sugar Manufactory upon a respectable scale If funds in negro slaves and mony could be obtained by a sale ~f the land before named It would certainly be favorable, but if not to make some capitalists Interrested who would be willing to
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