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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
my Deed and give it to Mr. Lynch or keep it yourself until I return whichever you may think bes~I am entirely willing to submit to the rules and regulations that you may make with the first settlers,-if you will give my deeds to Mr. Lynch you can hold this Letter which will be the same as my obligation-I can pay you two hundred Dollars or perhaps more this winter in good property if requested, in £act my will is to oblige you at any time when in my power. I shall start home in a few days in the Highest spirits and will return with my family this fall if life lasts.- Now Sir if my League is allready surveyed ns I have to draw Land for my e[l]dest son in my own name there is one or two young men who will come on with me that will attach themselves to my family-if I am intitled to any more land besides my League and Labbour by the size of my family or for building a mill, I will take it on the Creek that is called Seeder Creek at the first main fork above Simon Millers tract which is at a place lrnown by the Board Camp. Sir if you think p1:opper to give me a grant agreeable to the rules authorized by the government for building a mill I will obligate myself to build a good mill. The place that I have Described I located in December 1821 which [if] I can shall yet [get 1] I located it for the purpose of building a mill it will not interfere with any settler-but if it should inter- fere with any arrangement allreacly made I will take it at the second crossing of the second fork of the Navisota on the Labberclee i·oad Comme.ncing at the road and running Down for quantity this would be Convenient to the Millikins settlement if you think proper to grant this petition you will please to inform l\fr. Lynch and he will attend to the Surveying etc I hope Sir you will excuse my troubling you so much at so busy a moment of your Business-And receive the best wishes of your most obd. Friend and well wisher MARTIN C. Au.EN [Rubric] Col. Stephen F. Austin
AYLETT C. BUCl(NEil TO AUSTIN
Colorado 25 th J u]y 1824.
Co1° AUSTIN Srn Mr. Bell has in his possession my note for five mules which are for your benefi~I pd you $40. which discharged two of them Robert Kuykendall told me he paid you one more and as it is high time I had lifted the note which I am anxious to do I send you the
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