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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Jones aclmowledgment-that he has sold to you a part of his share in said Claim, expressing what pa.rt, and at the same time provide the _Money, to, meet, the expences on what ever part he may so express, taking for your standard two thousand Six Hundred and forty Seven Dollars as the expences and purchace money on Eight ¼ shares of the last half, and I will immediately agree and secure to you the same title I may receive-from Mr Baldwin Provided always, that such Certificate of sale to you from Jones doth not exceed or equal share I hold in Said Claim under my Con- tract with Maj Seth Hunt and that I am in no wise bound either to you or Jones jointly or Separately, Verbally, or, Written either as M Austin and Co or as Moses Austin for any more than a share to be claimed by you both inclusive Equal to that I myself can and may receive from Maj Seth Hunt Henry Baldwin or any Other person authorised to make to me deeds for said property, Such are the Conditions on which an adjustment may take place respecting the Renaut Claim-Provided that with in eight [days 1] from the recept of this letter the conditions herein stipulated are rati- fied and also that the propositio.ns herein contained are carr[i]ed with good faith into real Exec!}tion Canceling all other pretentions from either you or, Jones, on me, leaving the said John Rice Jones and Maj Seth Hunt to settle any contract They may have between each Other to be adjustd as they may think proper hereafter. I have thus again givn both Jones and yourself an Oppertunety to come forward and make a final finish of this business on termes equal with myself-If you do not accept remember I hold myself exonerated both in Honour and Justice I am Sr Yours M AUSTIN DURHAM HALL, Mine a Burton?May, f8tli 1813 [Endorsed:] Copy letter to John Scott Saint Geneveve on the Renaut Claim May 28th 1813
JOHN BOWMAN TO STEPHEN F. AUSTIN
Fayette County Ky, August 5 th 1813
MY OLD FRIEND, I once again have taken up my pen to address you; to inform you that I have not quite forgotten you, and to make my apology for not writing long since-The Reason is that I have never heard where you were, since I had the pleasure of receiving your letter dated in July; 1812, written from some place in Louisiana but I could not tell
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