THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 421 on shall have the first choice, and if the same land which they are occupying and actually improving is·granted to others without any notice to me, it will involve me ,in great difficulty with Emigrants, and produce a degree-of dissatisfaction amongst them which will have an unfortunate influence with others, in retarding the settle- ment, I have no objection to the Genm· who have applied and should be happy to receive them as settlers, but unless the organization of the colony is confined to one source some confusion will necessarily arise S. F.A.
CERTIFICA'l'E OF CHARACTER: ,JA:arn~ CoLLTNswonrn
Woodville Oct' 13 1821 We ·the undersigned Citizens of Wilkinson County state of Mis- sissippi h~ve for a Number of Years been intimately acquainted with the Bearer hereof Mr James Collinsworth 1 -ancl from our long acquaintance with him can say with propriety.that his conduct has ever been that of an honest industrious and correct man in all his transactions, and we feel no hesitation in recommending him as such, and as a man in whom confidence can be placed in his intercourse with the world Given under our hands at Woodville as above Gi:o PoTNDEXTER Govr. of Mississippi JA1trns CAitRAWAY Chief J1istice Willcimo-n County MosEs LIDDELL Justice of the quorwm of the county court lsAAC DILLAHUUTY Cle-rk etc etc of 1,VillcinsonOounty \Vm T. LEWIS To Stephen F Austin Esq'. Nackntosh
AUSTIN TO WILLIAM KINCHELOE: PERMIT TO SETrLE
Permission is hereby granted to "William Kincheloe to settle in the Colony now forming by me on the Brnssos and Colorado Rivers in the Province of Texas, and the said Kincheloe is authorized to select a mill seat anywhere within the bounds of the Colony, and also to choose tracts of land for [ ._] Families now on their way to said Colony, he is to mark the tract.s chosen by him both •for himself
• Collinsworth was a commh;sloner from Texas to the United States ln 1836; and 1n 1838 became Chief Justice ot the Republic ot Texas.
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