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ment for mecanicks I have been for a long time dis.satisfide with the place I have often been sorry that I dident take your fathers advice and go back to herculaneum he frequently wrote for me to come back but I was ingaged in making machinery nnd could not come at the time-as you are going to reside permanently in that part of the Country I would like very much to move there and spend the balance of my days you will please to write me imediately on the receipt of this give me the perticulars of the country write me what acknowledgment you will make me and my family to come on as soon as i can·my family is small there is none but my wife and myself I have frequently been goclring her about going she says she wont go but she knows better if i say go the worst of all is i am in low circumstances to take a journy ·of that length if my business was setled so that I could come on I would need some little assistance to inable me to git on as to my caracture you are aquaintecl with me since I returned to lexington this eight years I nm well known by the first caractures in the place-as respects being use-full to the settlement as a mecanick I can make any of the :farming utentials and a house to live in and furniture I have worked a grate deal in the steem and watter mills in this place I have made stove paternes for the furnace and all the mouls for the paper factory machinery of all kinds-you will please to write me imecliately on the receipt o-f this say what incouragement you think i would meet with or what you think you would be willing to do for me nothing more at present J A~rns C. SHIELDS [Addressed:] Mr Stephen F. Austin New Orleans if austin is not there the post master will forward this to him at the texis
PRICE LIST
Natchitoches 10 th December 1821.
David Marple Esqr
To Sundries Merchandise Bot of J . Cable 1 Piece ot Blue Strowding $22 pr. piece________________________.;.___ __ $22. 3 pair Df 3 point Blankets at $5 pr. pair__________.____________________ 15 1 Chopping A.:J::_______________________________________ _____ _________ 2. 50 2 lb Powder at 6i and 8 lb Lead 2/___________________________________ . 3. 50 1 Dozen flints______________________________________________________ ·25 10 lb Sugar________________________________________________________ 2 5 lb Coffee________________________________________________________ 2.50 10 lb Biscuit_________________ ______ ._________________________ _____ _ 1. 87½ $49. 62½ Col. Stephen F Austin will Please To Settle with the Persi:m who is a.uthorized to Settle the Estate of D. Marple and Much Oblige J.CABLB
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