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child- Mary Joines me in affectionate love to you and dear Brown may god bless you boat.Ii and take you into his holy keeping is the constant prayer of your anxious·mother MARY AUSTIN [Addressed:] Stepehen F. Austin Austintino Colerado Texas po~ litness of Capn John .\V. Honey
JonN HAWK.INS TO AUSTIN
Mission Lafoughoa or .La fonha [Refugio] 20 miles south of Labbedee [La Bahia] Aprill the 29 th 1822 Sr- On the 24 th Instant I met with a Mr 'iVhitson.at Labbedee who Came with Kinchelow from Orleans In a Sloop Kinchelow pur- chased, together with six or seven other families Mr Kinchelow undertook to land them at the Mouth of Colorado and kept the people three months on bord the Vessel sounding and Trying to find the Month of Colorado balling the Vessel over shoals and so fatigued the men and worn them out, some wa.nted to land at Galveston others at the Mouth of the Brasses but he would not suffer them to Do so, for some Considerable time at Last they got out in some way and at some place after Keeping them on bord until all their provisions ware spoiled and the people suffering very much Each family made his way Back to the United States again or was Trying to Do so- Mr Whitson Told me that Mr Kinshalow told the people he was a partner of yours in the grant you had obtained from the Spanish government which Done you More harm than he Ever will have in his power to Repare again in his whole life, they found him to be a man so far from being a ma.n of Truth and honour they are De- term[in]ed to have Nothing to Do with you nor your Claim be- lieving him to be partner of yours in the Grant I Done what I could to :;ret Mr ,vhitsfon] to stay until you would Return but he stated He had been kept on Bord so long that his provisions ware all spoiled and he had Nothing to subsist on a.nd would Try to take his family towards Natchitotches, your Schooner [the Lively] was in company with Mr Kinchelow also was in the same wa.y, provisions all spoiled goods much damaged your schooner Came on Inst winter and stayed about the Brasses until pretty well eat out their provisions and went back again to Orleans with their cargo and Col 0 • Hawkins fitted them Out again with fresh supplies and they came on with Kinchelow and have acted in the same way until their provisions are all spoiled Mr Whitson Could not tell me whether th[e]y would Land or go back we heard as we Came by the Colorado they had Landed and left the cargo the first time but there was no trut4 in it- what I
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