1698
A~fERICAN HlSTORTCAL ASSOCIATION.
mentioned crossing, with a view not only to afford the necessary facilities to the travelJers of that road, but also to penetrate with the new settlements, further into the interior of the country, towards the Savage Tribes, but as this road is the Northern boundary of the Colony, I have already contracted, and as the best site for the settle- ment of the Town, is on the Eastern bank of the ri,,er Colorado, above the said road, and beyond the limits of any colonization con- tract, I am unable to effect the settlement proposed, without enter- ing into a new contract, with the Government, for the purpose, nnd believing that the Settlement of said Town, will be highly bene- ficial affording facilities for travelling, ancl to the mails and Troops, frequently passing from Bexar and N ac.odoches, and also prevent in some degree the incursions of the Indians, who are continually harassing the neighbodioods of Bexar, La Bahia, and the new Set- tlsments, and infest the roads, I hav~ considered it my duty, in order to promote the welfare and progress of that section of the State, to lay the matter before your Excellency, :md recommend the establishment of the before-mentioned town, offering on my part, to discharge all the duties of Empresario, in effecting the same, and to settle in the vicinity of the town proposed, the lands which may not be within the limits of any Colonization Contract; pro- vided the favors and privileges allowed to Empresarios are granted to me, and also that one of the stipulations of the Contract is, that eacl1 Colonist is to pay the sum of Thirty Dollars, for my services, in attending to their business, and making the translations to the completion of the title to their lands, by the Commissioner guaran- teeing the contracts made between the Colonists and myself, I offer to settle One hundred families in this new Colony, but upon the conditions, that should there not be a sufliciency of land, within the limits assigned for the said new colony, to locate them in conformity with the law in the case; Your Excellency will permit me to com- plete to them the quantity deficjent, within the limits of the colony which I have already contracted with the Government of this State. Saltillo, qctr. 11, 1827. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN
JonN A. vvu,LrAus 1·0 JAl\rEs E. B. AusTrN.
Pine Bluff Trinity 14 th Octbr 1827.
1',fr. JA'i\IES B. AusTIN Sm Jnclosed you will receive a rough map of that part of the Province of Texas ly~ng between the Trinity and Sabine, Bound tl by the St Antomo road, and south by the gulf The following nor 1 . 1 • ·t ks 'vill serve m some measure to exp am 1 • remar
Powered by FlippingBook