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THE AUSTIN PAPERS.
CY By Draft on you included In the General Acct________________ 315. 0 Balence of Expence Due me on the Lands sold you under Con- tract of March l6t1a 1795___________________________________ 1634. 50
$1949.50
To the Debt of Blnnchnrd and Lnuman in General Acct- [Endorsed:] Statement to be sent to Sam 1 McCraw :Memorandum N°. 4 MOSES AUSTIN TO STEPHEN AUSTIN l\'.femorandum of Land Deliver'd John D Blanchard and Geo Lauman on acct of a Contract Made with them on March 16 1795- To My part of the survey In Grayson________________________________ 52. 000 To A Smvey in Wythe County of___________________________________ 22, 000 To A Surveyin· do do_________________________________________ 3.000 Ton Survey in do do_________________________________________ 2 930 To a do in do do__________________________________ . ______ 10 000 To do in do do_________________________________________ 24. 099 To do in do do___________________________________ ______ 7 000 121,029 NB All the above Lands have been Deliverd to John D Blanchard and Geo Lauman in discharge of the Contract made with them in :March 16./'95 which Contract Calls for 120 thousind Acres of Land so· that he has recd nine Hundred and Ninety nine Acres of Land which is to be accountd for in an other Contract all the money I have ever recd from Blanchard and Lauman for the Land Business is accounted for in the above 120 thousand and the lands taken up for them in Grayson except the money paid me for the takeing up the last land these Lands I with hold as a security for a quantity of goods Put into the hands of John D Blanchard which he was to have rec'd from Geo Lanman and to pay over to Stephen Austin and Co when the Amount of said goods are accounted for I am then willing to Deliver up the Lands which may be Due them on said Contract and not before If any Dispute should arrise as to the Delivery of the above Land recose may be had to ~1r. J os Burr to prove the 52 thousand acres in Grayson and to the Land office in Richmond where all the other Survey in my name and in the name of John D Blanchard may be found all of which I have Conveyd to the Said .J o)m D and Geo Lauman by reference to the acct filed with this statement It will be found how much money is now in my hand .. It will be found that this Acct. will exactly Tally with my Con- tract made with them in March 16. 1795 and the Balence of the money is now invested in a Survey of land to be returnd by James Newell of 43 thousend Acres of Land-Mr Blancha.rd has ta.ken
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