1701
THE AUSTIN .PAPERS.
'l'nOlIAS POWELL TO AUSTIN
La Baca• Station 24 th Octo. 1827
Colo STEPHEN F .. AosTIN Dn•.srn, I presume that you will recollect of my addressing you last sprmg from New Orleans by General Fullerton on the subject of my missfortune in this cuntry about twelve months since-I have again arrived in the cuntry with a view of making it my future resi- dence, I arrived in the Bay in July last, and with much difficulty I compleated the transportation of my property to this station about the 15 th August, and have a second time reported myself a settler of the cuntry, and I did expect on my arrival here that I should have been in Saltillo before this time but . since I have been in the Cuntry I have been unable to attend to any business what- ever, two days after my arrival at this place a rising commenced in my right hand and I presume that I have had the ·worst hand that you ever saw, for three months entirely deprived of the use of it, and at this time very sore and scarcely can use it at nil. I shall en- deavor to be in Saltillo as soon as I possibly can, but there appears to be every obsticle thrown in my way to prevent my seeking any kind of satisfaction or the recovery of any part of my property that I was robbed of last year on my arrival in the cuntry, on the 13 th August last I addressed a note to his Excellency the political chief at San Antonio, by whose order I am informed my property was seized last year, that I should visit San Antonio very soon to make a de- mand of my property seized by bis order, which I presume some- what irritated him, and in a few days after this his Excellency issued an order to Green Dewitt Empresario of the Colony to have this place evacuated and all the colonists removed to Gonzales with- in thirty days from the receipt of the Order, which order wns re- ceived here on the 10 th of September, at a time when the crops of the Inhabitants were all standing in the Fields and myself at least 20 waggon Loads of property stored here, and not a waggon and team in the place to take away a single article, ns all the waggons belong- ing to the place were then on a trip to San Antonio with a parcel of goods brought by some Gentlemen that came in the same vessel with me and the waggons could not possibly get back untill the time had •nearly expired. I hired a. mun and Horse and sent him over to the Colorado to procure me all the waggons he could possibly get, I also sent to the Brasses a.nd all the Teams that I could procure was three small waggons that could take only a.bout 1000 lbs each, anu has made one trip to San Antone and returned yesterday, nnd ono of them has taken a Load back, and God only knows when I shall get my property away. a few dnys nfter the reception of the Order Issued by his Excellency Mr James Kerr arrived from the Brnsscs,
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