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THE AUSTIN PAPERS.
SETH INGRAM TO AUSTIN
Peach Creek, :March 25 th 1824.
DEAR sm In the course of six or eight days I shall finish the Leagues above the base line, all except that part of the 1" 1 2 nd and 3 rd next to the Colorado, which I cannot conveniently do at present, there being no water in running below the 'base line. I want your advice, whether I shall run two Leagues deep or one before I come to the bend of caney creek, if I do not make two, one will be very long, some of these that I have run are above seven miles long. the next below the base line will be seven or eight miles long, nnd perhaps nine. The Leagues we plotted for Mr. Selkirk to run did not reach the Prairie. I altered the plot and made three Leagues instead of two. In one point more I want your advice, the course with which I have run the seven first Leagues will not do to run the next, it runs too much . clown the creek and does not come square enough to the Prairie, the course being S 20° W. the same as Kincheloes line. I have been clown the Prairie fifteen or twenty miles and think a S. \V. course will not suit the best or perhaps S 60° W Send me an answer by the first opportunity, if you please, sir. I would give you a history of our late Indian fi_ght, but the bearer of this can give you an account of it, which will answer every pur- pose,- Sir, do not forget to write to my Brother, by yours, write him that now is the time to come to this country, and that I have secured him a tract of land if he will come soon, in so doing you will much oblige Col. s. F. AUSTIN SETH INGRAM [Rubric] Pnocw.M.A TION Stephen F Austin Lieut. Co 1• of Militia and Political Chief of Austins Colony in the Province of Texas. The detached and exposed situation of the lower Settlements on the Brasos River in this Colony requiring that an officer of the Militia should reside in that quarter. Therefore I do by these presents appoint Josiah H. Bell a Lieu- tenant of the Militia within the district of Country on the Brasos and Oyster Creek from the Fort and on the Bernard from the Mound to the sea Shore, and the said Bell will acldopt all necessary meas- ures to protect the said settlements from the attacks of the Knran- kawias, Cokes, or any other Indians, and to chastise them for any depredations they may commit within said limits without wnting for orders from his Superior officer, avoiding in all cases the sheding
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