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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Srn ANDREW MITCHELL AND Wu.r..IAM H. McCunoY TO AusTIN Escambia 45 Miles from Pensacola-January 31 1822. vVe are part of a Considerable Company of Farmers who wish to remove to your Grant, being generally poor, and not at all acquainted with the geography of either this Country or that we must rely on you for all the necessary information as well as assist- aµce to effect our Journey thither. If you will be so obliging as to write us word how this can be effected and how much of a settlement is already formed, whither provisions Can be had near your Grant, it will be too late to attempt to remove this season but-if our information suits we intend to be ready early in the fall we would wish to be informed whither there are many Indians in that quarter and whither Friendly or hostile- You will pleas to Give us as good a history of the Country as suits your leisure, and how you have Concluded to Charge for the land and the quantity we may expect Gratis We are Sir Respectfully yours etc ANDw MITCHELL ,vm H. McCoRDY Address wm H. McCurdy Esqr or Andrew Mitchell Pensacola W. F. [West Florida] [Addressed:] Mr Stephen F Austin Esqr Province of Texas
CERTIFICATE OF CHARACTER: DAVID TALLY
State of Kentucky
Christian Circuit I Benjamin Shakelford sole judge of the Christian Circuit Court - do hereby certify that I have known David Tally a citizen [of] the aforesaid circuit for several years, and that he has demeaned himself as a peaceable, honest, man ever since I have lmown him l[n] testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and caused the seal of the aforesaid court to be affixed this 1st February 1822 BENJ. SHAKELFORD
ANTONIO MARTINEZ T0 GASPAR LoPEZ 1 Esta.do Actual de la Provincia de Texas.
La ProV-· de Texas queda de Oriente al Poniente y tiene doscien- tas Ieguas, y del 29 grados Norte, hasta el 42, en la parte Oriental un poco mas de doscientas leguas, y en la Occidental trecientos: No
1 Tlhs letter ls from the Bexar Archives, University of Texas. It is included here Ill a clear offlclal statement of conditions at the beginning of Anglo-American settlement.
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