THE AUSTIN PAPERS, 701 To Cash _________________________________________________________ 100. " an order of Cap' Pettus____________________:::___________________ 70. " nu order of H. Chrismnu's------------------------------------- 12. " nn order of Seth Ingrams______________________________________ 9.12 " your Due B1ll_________________________________________________ 59. 12 $326.49 Gn.ve J. E. Groce a recept. for the above sum as so much rec 4 • to- wards the payment of his land Oct. 18, 1823- s. F. AUSTIN AusTIN TO JARED E. GnocE: NOTE Due J arecl E. Groce or bearer three Hundred and twenty six dol- lars any forty nine cents to be paid in land at one Bit pr. acre and I have agreed Jn,rcd E. Groce shall have seven leagues of land in my colony and he has settled for five leags all to the surveying and other expences and the above sum of three hundred and twenty six dollars and forty nine cents is part of the payment of the other two leages Cct 0 • 18 th • 1823 [Signed by AUSTIN, but signature torn off when note was canceled] AusTIN TO JARED E. GnocE I have this· day hired three ncgros from jared E. Groce to wit a negro woman called Sally, a negrnman called tame Jack and one called Kelly-the woman at eight dollars p•· Month and the Men at fifteen each-the hire to commence on the first day of November next, and continue for one year from that elate, and I hereby obli- gate myself to pay to said Groce the amt of said hire at the expira- tion of the year-A Boy called Fields is to be furnished to take care of 8ally's child-The said negros ::i.re to be well treated by me, and the said Groce is to clothe them-Should they run a way or die the loss is to be Graces-sickness to be my loss- Brazos River-October 19 [18231] [ STEPHEN" F. AUSTIN] the negroes is to be returned when the hire ceases S. F. AusTIN [Rubric]
AusTIN TO LucIANO GAncu1
A party of Tancahue Indians, have made, towa1:ds the middlo of last September an incursion up this river, and stolen from the citizens their horses, several of them of American breed and very 1 'l'bc tour letters trom .Austin to Garcln " go'\"ernor and polltlcal cblcr ot Texas " which follow are from the Texas State Libra1·y, Translatlons In the Nacogdoches ,l.rchlvea :from tbe Bexar ..Archives.
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