1628
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
ruakes it necessary for me to Remain so soon as all my families and their Effects are landed I will Immediately Visit San Felipe I inclose you some documents from the Texas association which you will be so good as to peruse between this and the time I shall see you. the directory of the company has made free to solicit your ad- vice and assistance in accomplishing their Views the Tener of which you will be able to discover by an Examination of their documents. if in your Judgement it should be necessary they request through me that you would assist in forming an additional memorial to govern- ment in their behalf if a change can be produced favourable to their Views they will introduce the whole 800 families during next season and as many more as they may be authorised to bring and if the protection of their property can be garanteede the Emigration will be wealthy if the nature of things would permit I would be Extreamly glad to Im ploy Mr Vvilliams to go on _with me to Saltillo, if it is possible for him to leave his other Business so long you [will] much oblige me by nameing the thing to him. we are all in fine health. Give my Respects to the inhabitants of Snn Felipe Generally H. H. LEAGUE
J. HUNTER TO AUSTIN
April 12 th 1827
The Honorable S. F. AusTIN
Judge of Austins Colony. your petitioner humbly prays redress for the abuse and to be released from the persecution and oppression of Wm Scott who declares that I shall not be out of the law while I remain in that place and that he will have me halled up to court at least once a. month if it should be for no other purpose than to hackle me by which he means to ridicule and abuse me as he .has been in the habit of doing at each court day for the last six months in such a manner that it is impossible to bear it, The Alcalde Jackson's letter of last week wHl shew you something of the manner in which be abuses not only me but the court itself. It seems also useless to obtain a decission against him as he disregards you or your orders-so declared-And so in the case of the widow he has twisted nnd quibled for more_than a ye~r and raised a great bill of cost re~ec[ted] and picked the jury untill he got one Exactly to please lum who allowed me only thirty nine dollars and some cents which nt the request of the Alcalde I agreed to take in property and not distress the widow. And now notwithstanding an express order from your honor that no appeal should be taken in those cases Behold them
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