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THE AUSTIN PAPERS,
. 1808 Jnn" 3 4 To 6 yd" of Silk @ 2.00---------------------------------- Feb'" 17 2 qts of Cider @ 25_____________ ,"7___________________;______ March 9 paid Easton and Pope--------,--------------------------- June 2 4 504 lb lend in Villnge---,--------------------------------- To your board from 16 Aug'· to 1,, Nov'· 2½ Months @ 10$_____.______________________ ---~---- Sundry mE-nls since with lodging say 52@ 12½ cents______________________________________ Dec'· 6 To 6 Months bonrd from 1, June to the 1, Dec•· @ 12$50__:.___________:.____________________ To keeping your horse from the 1, Oct•· up to 30tb Dec•· 3 months----------------------:------- paid James Bryan_______________________________________ paid John Butler___._____________________________________ p a i d L u c y ______________________________________________ _ 30 496 lb lend 1, Sept'·_____:..________________________________ 1160 lb lend 13. Dec'_____________________________:________ Feby 6 paid James Hawthorn___________________________________ 1809 Feb'" 15 1810 paid James Bryan_______________________________________ March 9, By Perkins Wood and Miller ______________________________ _ June 2 By 1 Horse______________________________________________ 1810 Feb'"· 14, 790 lb lend per E. and Shields_____________________________ 23, ]007 lb <1° from D. Smith__________________________________ July 2d. 267 lb d 0 30° Dec'· 1808 _________________________________ _ 1808
12.00 50 5. 29.23
25.00
6.50
75.00
22.50 7.50 5.75 4.00 24.80 58. 00- 2. 00
10.37½
$292. 35½ Cr.
~21. 50 60.00
89.50 50.35 13. 35
12° Nov•· d 0
0
355 lb d
----------------------------------- 17. 75
$202.45
AGREEl\lENT TO PROSPECT FOR LEAD l
.MINE Au BuRTON JULY 18 1810 Richard Cobb this day applied for permission to dig mineral for- Blakely and himself on this tract. their intention was he said to traverse the whole survey and endeavour to make some valuable dis- coveries--provided they could meet with sufficient incouragement- The following ·agreement was accordingly made with them- For a ·discovery which shall be valuable and which shall be judged hy disinterested Persons to be such an one as is here intended, and which shall be thought worthy of the affixed reward they shall receive fifty Dollars fifty feet square of land, and twenty two Dollars per thousand for all the Mineral raised within their fifty feet untill Moses Austin
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