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AlVIERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Dollars pr year and to clothe and feed them and Lucys young child Cutharine-The snid "T estall hereby pays over the said hire to said Austin towards the Expences on said Westalls land in the said new Colony formed by said Austin In witness of all which the parties have hereto Signed their names at the Town of San Felipe de Austin in the Province of Texas August 1, 1824. STEPHEN F. AusTIN [Rubric] TH0 8 WESTALL [Rubric] Thomas Westall took the negro woman Lucy into his service on the 1 day of April 1825 from which day her hire is to be deducted from the within agreement.
L. B. HAWKINS TO J. E. B. AUSTIN
Lexington [Kentucky] August 3 1824
JA"l\fES E. B. AUSTIN Dear Sir Since last writing you I have prepared a Power of Attorney to enable the Judge to do something in that :Modeira busi- ness 1 I fear that Dimmit has [not1] done what I instructed him llfosquis and his friend :Qonvictor both promised to aid him in the collection of debt In fact they are honourably bound to pay the money it was [with] them my Brother Contracted for the freight of those articles and Not J.\,fodeira and fact Don Victor Blanco of- fered to pay the Money before they left San Antonio and in a letter from llfont Clover [Monclova] offered his services again to Collect that llfoney I have No hesitation in believing that :Mosquis and Donvictor will not suffer me to loose that :Money it was hardly earned I paid out of my Own pocket at least $150 to vessels and hands to endevor to get their Articles landed at the Guadaloop Instead of the Colorado where :My Brother agreed to land them: that was done to save Carriage from the Colorado to San Antonio this they know to be true under those Circumstances they ought to feel themselves bound to pay that debt please get Judge Austin and Allouri to sell the property also to Collect this }Honey Don :Manuel Allouri knows me to be a correct Man I must feel satis- fied that when I left St Antonio that I had :Made more than ample arrangement to have [illegible] 2 debt paid I left in the hands of Dimmit at least $1100 of claims On what the best men in Country the Go. among the rest say if Sandovall paid Dimmit the money 1 For this account see J. E. B. Austin to Austin, May 25, 1823. and James Hewitson to J. E. B. Austin, May 20, lS'.?3. s The name looks like Fiacco.
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