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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
'l'IlA'l' SUlI and this only in order to gain a few months 01· if you were ca1·eful in w1·iting 7Jossibly only DAYs--1 ought to state that Poyais is on the Mosquito Shore near Portobelfo a tr;ict granted to :m Englishman imd I understand has sold in part for more than 1 Dollar per acre t.lie very same merchants ancl Banker who arranged his business have called on and offered me ·their aid and agency- Under these circumstances you would doubtless have. deemed me worse than mad had I not sus1>encled the execution of the scheme we had framed when tlt :Mexico and my determination in conse- quence was such as will I am convinced merit the approbation of yourself and every one and prove the feeling ·which I was resolYed should actuate my conduct in •whatever proposal· I •might make you-Calculating that 30C,000 acre-s of the best land would produce the same number of Dollars ¼ of which I proposed· lodging in your name ¼ in my own and with the other ¼ sending out all the goods you require which together ·with all .the remaining land (in order_ that you might be enabled to pr°';ide for j;our family in which laud- able effort I shall 'ever join you). I intended making over to you to be divided amongst your brother brother in law sister and other rela- tives as you might deem proper reserving only ¼ so that if you chose your mother might have ! your brother sister - Brother in law - yourself and myself¼ each-\Vith regard to the distribution of what-. e\'er sum we might raise by Timber sold in this country which as I have so often state<l if you can cut it clown float it to the coast at little expense and ship ships lye there during ·the summer will pro- duce an invmense sum of money I should be equally liberal having no one member of my family to provide for nor wishirig for any more than independent small portune for myself-I intended at the same time to request tha.t a friend a merchant ·should be named agent for the concern since the greater part of the produce cloubtless • will be sold in this country-In all the schemes I ha.ve entered into relative to Mining &c you as I inform~d you at :Mexico have an equal ~hare with myself unless very unfortunate they will produce fortlmes for us but I have not on that account -neglected the land in Texas since it is well for us to have two strings to our bcnv-I ought to have mentioned that never man had so awkward a game to play as I had since first the Pirates plundered me of all m); cash cloathes and nearly all my papers then no one .of my correspondents notwithstanding all I had urged ·on the subject forwarding to·me intelligence relative to the state of .Mexico I was unable as I otherwise would have done wholly to discredit the reports which [came] from the J:Iava~nah and N: America Papers so that when I offered the V alen01,0,na. spec-
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