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THE AUSTIN PAPERS.
RANDALL JONES TO AUSTIN
Fort Settlement 22 rd August 1824
DEAR Sm I have waited with some considerable degree of patience until the present time for the promised notice you were to give me; finding the month advancing to a close and having an opportunity of re- minding of .you by Mr. Knight I have taken the liberty of saying that as it is a matter of considerable importance with me (and should be with every old Batchelor) that I wish you would hasten your visit to this settlement as every preparation is made to have a party on your arrival I hope you are or will in a few days be able to come down and I wish you to write me by Mr. Knight and inform me precisely when you can come down I was on the point of coming up but as :Mr. Knight is going up it will answer all purposes be so kind as to write me by him and you will oblige •
.R. JONES
Col. S. F. AUSTIN
JAMES CUMMINS TO AUSTIN
DEAR CoL 0
It appears that about fifty of the Keronkiweys are Coming on to attact the lower Settlement of this river and have said they would devide into two Companys and perhaps one Company ".May Come up the River as high as this Settlement we have determined to Collect all our familys to one place perhaps here in order to guard them which will take all the Men we Can raise in the upper Detachment of this district I think about forty Men from the Brassos and what Men there is in the lower Settlement on this River May be enough to meet them which would be well to do as soon as possible- August 25 th 1824 JAlrES CuM11nNs • [Rubric] [Addressed:] Col 0 Stephen F. Austin San Felipe de Austin
JOSIAH H. BELL TO AUSTIN Brasses Lower Settlement August 25 th
' : 1824
DEAR Srn since I sent you a survey of the Benard on Examination·we find 'it does not make as much Westing from the mouth of mound Creek as we expected if the deeds are not made out and you find it Con- venient to Extend my uppe1: line to the Benard it will prably leave the tract in a better shape as it will otherwise leave n shnrp point between the Benard and my line that Could be of little use to nny
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