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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
self and three younger children I have the two eldest at the Beards- town College If this was not my particular situation I would come without hesitation to the Province the suffering and priva- tion to me I was near four months on the lviexican Coast examining the mouths of the Brassos Colorado Guadaloope ·and St Antoni~ I was the first person that took a vessel to the landing of Guadalope and the Bay of lVIusquittoes the mouth of the San Antonio River be- fore I landed in the province. After all my toils and privation anrl seperation :from my family fifteen months I have been swindled out of all that I ·sent out of the Country by John Hanna and Issurael Massie the two persons that I took into partnership in the :Mule and Horse business ..When I met with John Hanrnt at Labordee [La Bahia] he was in bad health and had but $14 left in the world It is believed in the Country in which Hanna and Massie lives that they sold the J\,fules and Horses and divided the :Money out of 260 head of Hoi·ses and 75 Mules 4 Jacks and 6 jinncys I have never Received one single dollar, the principal part of the fund was advanced by my self and Brother that made that purchase the Mules and Horses put in the hands of A Mr Pettus by John Hanna to have taken to the United States which he sold and used the money that he received for them was principally Mine Massie had no Interest in that drove Independent of the Capital that I put in I loaned Hanna and ]Hassie $850 that I received for freight at the :Mouth of the Colorado and at St Antonio to enable the Company to get the :Mules and Horses to the United States Independent of that I advanced to favor Phillip T Dimmit about $350 which John Hanna assumed the payment of. he was in Dimmits debt all the Money tha.t Dimit has collected since I left the Province is gone with the rest at the time we heard of Jennings death I was sick at St Antonio and employed Hanna to go to Jennings encampment 25 Miles aboYe the mouth of the Colorado to get possession of the things in his hands and those of Poore Harrison he received money of the two deceased to the amount of $150. and used their clothing that was worth any thing their riphles and out fit which was Considered loaned money of which I have Never received of him One Dolla.r. Independent of those things Named I put in his and Massies hands 11 of the Best Mules and 4 of the finest horses of the Country purchased with my Brothers money with instructions "'hen they arrived in the United States to deliver them to my Brother I sent them to him as a snmple of the Stock of the Province they Never delivered him One mule or Horse ,,rhen I crossed the Colo- rado Coming to the United States Judge Cummins sent me word that he had co1lected some money for me for salt thn.t was brought from the mouth of the River, the principal part of the articles that was taken from the encampment by those .Americans that Com-
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