THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 821 I start this moment to the Mines for your Mother shall return on Monday next I wish you to give some kind of an answer about the Beef and.in my opinion you had better collect all you can and .send them forward to St..):.ouis you Know the 15 of Octob• is near At Hand :when Cox will be calling op us . MosEB AusTIN, [Rubric] love to.Emely and the &on [Addressed:] M• James Bryan Hazel Run
BILL A.ND PrucE LI.S'l'
STEPHEN F AUSTIN. AND Co
To Wilkins and Catron . D•
1817 Feby 20 To 207 lbs Iron_________________________ @ 11------ 31. 55 [slcl " To 1 Barrel Flour___________________________________ 8. 00 " To 1 pr and Irons 37 lbs__________________ •@ 10_____ 3. 70 : To 1 pot 28 lbs---~--~-------------------@ 10______ 2. 80 l\lnrch 7 To 1048 lbs Bars Iron_____...,________________1/1______ 174. 67 " To 16 lbs Crowley SteeL__________________50_________ 8. 00 228.72 Sept 14 To 514 ,. Bar Iron pr order 15 cts____________________ 77 10 " 86 " plow moulds____________________l/_________ 14 33 211 " Crowley SteeL______________ 50_________ 10. 75
331 90
331 90 102 14¼
1817 Contra ________ cr_· -------------------------------- Muy 17 By 2029 lbs Lead________________________@5.00______ 101 45 . . . ' • ' . 126 27
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CONTRACT TO EXPLORE FOR COPPER
Articles of agreement ma.de and entered into this ninth day of October in the Year eighteen hundred and Seventeen, between Moses Austin of the county of St. Louis and Territory of Missouri, of the one part·,. and Elias Rector, -Stephen Rector, Risdon H price· and Thompson Douglass of the county and territory aforesaid, of the other Part, VIZ, the Said Austin, at his own individual expence to make a full and fair experiment upon a certain tract or tracts of land lying in the Territory of Illinois and County of Monroe in which there is·suppos'd to be a Mine of Copper, to ascertain which the said Austin is to make the experiments, Then the said R~ctors, Price
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