THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 365 box. -being an advance of more than one hundred per cent--A m~nu- factory well. managed with good worlnnen :will produce from six to seven hundred boxes of Glass per month-we have in two instances at these works within a year made 800 boxes of Glass in one month- I have here given you a correct summary of the whole work, should any Gentlemen in your place feel disposed to embark in the business I should be happy to engage with them and move to that country____ Please reply as soon as convenient w~ vVrLLIAMS Superint. . . Ontmio Glass FactoriJ [Ontario County N. Y.], [Addressed:] Moses Austin Esquire Herculaneum Jefferson County Missouri State-.
GEORGE TENN ILLE TO PIERRE LAFORGE
This Shall authorise and empower Pierre Alexander Laforge attorney in fact for the heirs of Pierre Antoine Laforge Decease- Or his Executors or Administrators to ask, demand sue for and receive one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars which is due from Stephen F. Austin on a note bearing date the 30 th January 1819 and payable on the first day of February 1821 which said note I have this day given into the hands of said Laforge for his own proper use and benefit-- Witness_my hand and Seal this 13 th June 1820 • 'GEORGE TENNILLE [Rubric]
STEPHEN F. AusTrN's Co11rl\uss10N As JuooB
James Miller
Governor of the Territory of Arkansas To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting ·
Know Ye-That reposing especial trust and confidence i.n the in- tegrity and abilities of Stephen.F. Austin, I do hereby appoint and commission him Judge in and for the First judicial Circuit of this Territory-To have and to hold the said Office of Judge, together with all the profits and emoluments, thereunto belonging, for the Tenn of three years, unless sooner re}lloved by the Governor. , In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the private seal of the Territory to be affixed, at the Secretary's
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