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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
ELECTION RETURN
The Poles of an Ellection held for Alcalda for the Collorado District at the H [o J use [of] R Alley on the 10th. Jan. 1825
R Alley
James Cummins
W B Dewees-1 J. Ross-1. Robert Brotherton-1 A. W. McClane--1 Daniel Holowa.y- 1 B. Beason-1 George Duty-1 John Tumbleston-1 Na.than Osborn-1 Vincent Rodrigues-1 James }.fcNare--1 James Cook-I IgnatiG Cortines-1
V\Te the Judges Certify the above is just and true
ROBT. BROTHERTON JAMES J\icNAin
JoHN P. CoLEs TO AusTIN 1
January 11 th 1825
DEAR Sm I recd your of the 6 th Instant and Enclosed I fom1d Gaines letter as Respects the Horse Mitchial let him [have] at my House in my absence with ·a request that I should try and pay Gaines with tl1e Horse end if Gaines did not take the 1-lorse to pay Gaines myself and keep the Horse and If I did not want the Horse he would pay me some other way and take Back the Horse However when Gaines Returned ·from Saint Antonio I told him of the Horse he said he would take him But we could not find the Horse and consequently believed he had been stolen by some Spaniards who had passed when the Horse Ran sunday after I found the Horse and had him valued Intending to dispose of him as he was Trouble- some and constantly trying to Run of he was supposed by Byrd Capt Jones and others to be worth five or six dollars in cash I then saw Mitchal and Told him the Horse would not pay his debt to Gains which· wn,s $12- he observed he did not know hpw he
• See Gaine1 to Austin, November 1, 1824,
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