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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSQCIATION.
receive any necessnry papers from thare in time for them to Reach you before you leave I will inclose them by mail to you. You .mentioned in your cormunication that you would be short of funds I doubt not but I will receive as much as $500 from the company by my Return from nu.chitoches and should you have occasion to draw on me and you can make it answer you any pur- pose your Draft shall be honoured and paid as soon as the funds shall come to hand. I have also inclosed you a bill of directions imbracing some of the wishes of the company any of the requests that you m,iy think un- popular or Improper to ask you will please to omit and r.ny thing that you may Esteam advantageous or proper to be asked for you will pleas to do so though it is not in the memorial or bill of direc- tions The difficulty that was apprehended on account of Daton is over he has been punished and driven out of the colony. his designs on the ·colony was full of mischief and Rebellion and had become more formidable than any of us imagined and was On the Eave of brake- ing out but it is fortunately Over. your brother Mr. "\Villiu.ms ancl I will write you more fully on the subject. it is all important for many reasons that I should remain here until after court. if matters is properly managed then the tranquility and future harmony of the colony will be more permanently Established than ever. the cir- cumstance of this appeal in the case Payton, Vs, Parker is daily producing more and more Excitement. I have used Every Exer- tion in my power to have it compromised and thought once I had done so by Peyton giving up the damages allowed him and paying the cost of the suit which he agreed to do but was afterwar<ls broken off by Parker. if it is in your Power to put a stop to the Proceed- ings it will be a finishing stroke to Publick tranquility. the health of the colony has been good my self and family has injoyed fine health. Sept. 10 1827 H. H. LEAGUE [Rubric] Col. STEPHEN F. AusTIN H. H. LEAGUE TO [AUSTIN] It is the wish of the Company that they as a Company may be Recognized as the prop~·iet.ors of the colon~, that the.persons names assigned to the Memorial may be Recogmzed as D1recto~·s of the ny the company Concisted first of 52 persons tow1t Nelson compa • :\ Paterson-William Campbell-Ira lngr~m-J. Roan-"\ 7 • Tunne-
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