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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
RoswELL Mn.ts TO AusTIN
Rushville, Ohio, March 28 th 1822.
J\fR. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN,
DEAR Sm, I have twice written you but receiving no answer presume my letters did not reach you. Chance has thrown in my way your letter to Mr. Hawkins dated at La Bahia in Sept. last. • This with the information I had previously received of Texas, induced me to wish to emigrate there and the object of my former letters has been to enquire of the country and to ascertain if a [sur- veyor] could have a prospect of employment in surveying which is my occupation. I have a small family and industry and honesty will be our principal property. I have now a chance as I expect of sending this by private conveyance to New Orleans. If it should meet your eye I should be glad to receive a line from you addressed to me at this place, containing such information on the foregoing topics as your information and leisure will permit. . Recently I have seen the project of Iturbide 1 for the government of Mexico. "\Vill not his Mona1·chial Government and N on-tole1·ation be a great check to the emigration of Americans. . RoswELL J\fILLs.
AusTIN's AccoUNT WITH Eow.ARD LovEL.ACE
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN
To EDWARD LovELACE Dr.
~fnrch [30] 1822 To this sum pnld you by Messrs Reynolds and Ralston in compliance with ID)' written request dated the 20 Nov• 1821 and payable in one hundred and twenty days after date which was paid you_________ $500. 00 This sum for accepting said order_________________________________ 12. 50
512.50
Interest on the above from 30th of March 1822 to --- This sum loaned you nt Natchez In Nov• 182L_______________________ 100. 00 Additional sum advanced for you in New Orleans rt Dec• 182L_____ 100. 00 Int on the two last charges from 1• t of Dec is21 - .- · Recd Mny 3, 1847 from James F Perry and wife and ,villiam G Hill and wife a Deed for seven hundred nnd forty acres of land on •Mill Creek in Austin County Texas in full payment for the above account and interest • HARRIS and PEASE Attor·neys at Law. , This appears to refer to the terms of the Plan of Igu 1 nla, which the Sovereign Pro\"l• slonal .lunta confirmed, October 5. 1821.-i\Innuel Dublan y Jost Marla Loznno, Lcglsla• clon Mcxtcana, etc. (Mexico, 1876), I, 617-:118.
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