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who called himself Hawkins had been at his house-that he (Haw- kins) with one Clement (sometimes called Reno) were the persons who had comitted the thefts on the Trinity-that they had a cava- larde of sixty or seventy horses above the San Antonio crossing on the Trinity River that those horses they had stolen from the settle- ments on the Brassos and Colorado-I have thought proper to com- municate this to you for the benefit of your settlement-for further information on the subject I refer you to Doct Brown who will hand this- GEORGE Onn
J.E. B. AusTIN TO Mns. E. M. PEnnY.
San Felipe de Austin 24 th March [May] 1827.
MY Dn S1sTEn. A considerable period has elapsed since I had the pleasure of receiving a letter from my dear Emily-Can an absence of only a few years, entirely have obliterated from her memory a Brother she onced loved! What can .be the cause of her long silence 1 per- haps she is so much engaged in her domestic duties that she cannot " steal, " time to devote a few leisure moments to her Brown. Ex- cuse me sister for reproaching you for your negligence for I assure you I have been much hurt at your long silence. You perhaps think I am hardly justifiable, in blaming you for a fault you think I am equally censwrrible for but on this point I can satisfy you-For the last year I have been absent from the Colony-and in a country where there was no mode of conveying a letter to the U. S-Shortly after my arrival I wrote you from Nacogdoches, and since then I have been anxiously expecting a letter from you- You have no doubt heard long since, the happy termination of the disturbances on this :frontier an·d the conspicuous part Our Brother acted in bringing J;o a close so unnatural rebellion-At this time the utmost harmony prevails in every part of this country, and so far we are blessed with a prospect of a plentiful harvest in a healthy season, We are not entirely forgotten by our :friends in the north a few days since we received a lenthy letter from Henry Austin dated in New York-Stephen has answered it and recommen[d]ed him to come and see the Country and I think he will be out in the fall- My sole wish is to see o~r scattered family o?ce ~ore United _and I think there is some httle prospect of their bemg so provided Henry is pleased with the Country. I have nothing new to commumcate-we have a prospect of a considerable emigration from Ohio next fall-
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