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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
can ma.Im it bring some shoes for us all-let Sister make me some Cokades for the militia officers-- I will send in the wnggon so as to be at McGuffins by the 15 or 20 day of October and let them wait there untill they hear from you, so that when you arrive at Alexandria or Nachetosh you must send up to McGuffins for the W aggon and Horses-I will also send in a few Horses or mules to sell to buy a few Cows to drive along to give milk on the road be cautious about making any contracts with any one for lands or settlements here, for by the time you return t.he 300 families may all be filled up and then I should have difficulty with them, but if you can get 500 or 1000 dollars in Casi,, to help towards buying a vessel ... land If S. Perry comes he ... vessell of 40 or 50 tons-- Encourage all good men of families [to come] if they do not get land from me they can [buy from others] Let old Jack do as he pleases about coming ... he should come for I wil1 take good care [of him as long] as he [live]s s. [F. AUSTIN] write [me eve]ry opportunity--
:MARRIAGE PERl\IIT
Be it Known that we David Bright and.Judy Bright the Parents of Betsey Bright do hereby agree that our said Daughter may Marry Noel Roberts- witness our hands May 10, 1824 Bracis River, Prove· of Texas DAVID BRIGHT for himself and for his wife Judy Bright Attest S. F. AusTIN Judge
BASTROP TO AUSTIN
Mi estirnado amigo y cluefio pr la antecedente copia de la carts. de nuestro amigo Deputado en Cortes D 11 Erasmo Seguin 1 vendra V en conocimiento qnanto tendra que trabaxar el deputado en el congresso Prov 111 • en beneficio de la colonia de los Brazos y Colorado y que no se si lograra todo que pide Seguin qe haga los vagos no pueden convenir a In. nueva Colonia ni a la Prov•· Si no se puede lo!!rar la revocacion de la ley de emancipacion de los Esclavos co~viene que se mitigue de un modo 6 otro en beneficio de los que ya tengan sus esclavos introducidos en esta Provincia, sera difficil
, .Above, Seguin to Bastrop, March 24, 1824.
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