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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
my Spring tract on the Enst side of the Colorado River next above Jacksons it hns the river on one side and a running creek and a large Prairie on the other and has a.bout 30 acres that was well tended last year and will also be well tended in corn this year, but has no fence-my own opinion is that if she were to give away every thing she has in the world except her negros and by so doing could get here, that She would be worth more than double as much the day she arrived here as ever She wns before in her life-but Still I do not adYise her to move, what I have promised to do I will do if she comes-I refer her to Esquire John Andrews and Tommy Ally who will be on in the summer for a cliscription of the country and then she can decide for herself Bring all your books and beds and becling The furniture and other heavy articles except castings, sell for pork flour Beans etc to use on the road for you must St.art with provisions enough to last the whole journey, also try and bring a pair or two of Geese and tame d1Jcks-nlso all kind of Gardin Seeds particularly Cabbage Lettice, beats, Sage-Summer Savory, horse reddish etc, etc, and at Nachez or lower down try and get some orange fig and grape roots-and be particular to make brother get some Nectarine and peach stones from E. Bates and a dozen young Penrs, or the seed!!! of his best Pears and apples, also some crab apple seeds, I want them to try and make a hedge also the cypress vine or any other vine for ·an arbor and some roots of the double Rose, all these can be brought in a small box and watered- lf you go to orleans I now have no friend there to receive you- Hawkins is dead, you would have found a brother in him-As to Kenner I wish to have nothing to do with him, perhaps he might befriend yon and Mother but I shall never ask him for any favor, I may do him injustice but I do not like him- I very much wish that Sam 1 Perry would move here, he could not fail doing well-the cotto·n trade will soon be of great importance in this country and by coming now to start it he could always get the most of it, besides he could buy up large tracts of land on good terms-he will find a warm friend in me-- If you see any of my old Mine a Burton friends remember me to them, I said when I left there in Ma.rch 1819 that I would return and see them in ten yenrs So you may tell them that in five years more if alive I will pay them all a visit and in the mean time shall be happy to see any of them here- Be particular to inform nny who move with you that the Rom1u1 Catholic is the established Religion here to the absolute exclusion of all others
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