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THE AUSTIN PAPERS,
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN TO MOSES AUSTIN 1 Memorandum. of Money to be sent on to Kentucky
To John Postlethwait of Lexington for which my due Bill is given__ $28. 00 To Amos Edwards of Russellsville for which my due Bill is given This bad better be sent to Jos Ficklin with a request to take it up_ $46. 00 To Charles Bradford of Lexington This due Bill has been sent on to Geo. Wilson of sc Louis to whom I have written on the subject__ $153. 33½ $227. 33½ When I purchaced the waggon I gave my note to Doct B. Roberts for Five Hundred Dollars payable in Six Months after date and at the same time made a written contract with Messrs Geo. vV. and W. H. Whitakers of Russellville for Five thousand pounds of Small Bar Lead to be deliver'd at Clarksville and Nashville by the pt day of May. at Ten Dollars pr Hundred, payable on the same day that my Note to Doct Roberts becomes [due] I also was to deliver him at the same time Six Hundred pounds of Shot. (See the Memorandum in the contract for the numbers) at 15$ pr Cwt to pay for Sundry articles I got principaly for Mr Brickey I also promised (verbally) that I would Send on 100 pounds of Shot assorted to 00 1 • Bailor near Russellsville for which he was to pay the market price It would be best to get Mr J. Ficklin to at- tend to this business and take up my notes from Roberts and con- tract from the Whitakers after the Lead and Shot is delivered. Since Lead has fallen if the 5000 is not delivered by the day it is more than probable it will not be rec 4 • so that Lead that is [on hand?] ought to be [made1] into pound Bars and appropriated to this use, My Credit stands very fair now at Russelsville and if this Contract is complied with it will continue to stand high which may be of much use to me hereafter it therefore is of great importance to me as well as yourself.that the Lead should be sent on in time This I believe is all the unsettled business I have in Ky. At Herculanium I pu).'chased 200 Baskets of Corn from Doct. Cairns at 37½ cents payable the first of June·and Horine I am fear- ful will not deliver much more meal untill he is paid for what we have got I subscribed 5 Lots and 100 Doh•· for the Hercun· Bridge in your name subject to your confirmation. I this day purchas 4 • 101 yards of Linn.en from C Patterson at 40. ctL for which I gave a due Bill in your name payable the fifteenth day of May March 25 th 1815 STEPHEN F AusTIN [Rubric]
1 Origi.Dal in possession of Mr•. Emmett L. Perey,
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