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PAPERS op 1\IIRABE.\U BuoNAPARTE L.\MAR
0. 6 1796-7 Dec. 8-Mar. 25, l\IOSES AUSTL 1
"A :uemorandum of L Austin's J ournay from the Lead Mines in the county of Wythe in the State of Virginia to the Lead lines in the Province of Louisiana, West of the l\1issippi [and return]" Copy, partly by Lamar. 34 p. No. 7 1805 Oct. 18, J. B. DE ELGUEZABAL, [SA A~TOl•IOJ TO N. SALCEDO, [CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO] Baron de Bastrop. Lieut. Col. Don Juan Bautista de Elguezabal,8 Governor Protem of the Province of Texas--1805-He was nnly Governor '' Pro tern·' The ahove Governor Protem in a letter dated Bexar 18th October 1805, writes to the commanding General, Don Nemecio Salcedo, in the following langua"'e "This day I have 0 -ranted to the Baron de Bastrop, vassal of his Uajesty, inhabitant of Ouachita in the prov- ince of Louisiana, Licen!;e to emigrate from that conntry to this, and establish himself, in this province on the lands .and rivers between the Trinity and this capital, with a colony of Seventy or a hundred families, of the same class, and of Choctaw Indians, faithful depend- ants of the Spanish Dominions, on account of their having agreed to conform to the conditions & regulations prescribed by the Vice- roy and approved by his majesty, and to subject themselves entirely in. their establishment to the rules, condition and orders existing in that jurisdiction, the particulars of which I have informed said Barron verhally, that havin"' thought convenient to do so, by writ- ten communication 9 on account of the ri k of the papers, by some event, falling into the hands of the Anglo Americans.'' [On back of document] Baron de Bastrop allowed to colonize 100 families to be ;iomposed of Emigrants from Louisiana & lthe Choctaw Indians-1805. The Colony to be located between the Trin- ity and Bexar. 'Printed In Awierican Historical Review, V, 517. Probably to be printed in the Austin Papers. 'Lamar was evidently In error here. Letters in both the Bexar Archives and the 'acogdoches Archives !)rove that Elguezabal had on July 29, 1805, been relieved from duty on account of illness. On the same day Cordero was appointed to take bis place ad interim. On November 4 Salcedo acknowl- edged t.be receipt of Cordero's letter of October 6 announcing the death of Elguezabal. This letter (October 6) cannot be found, but the evidence is conclusive that Elguezabal had ·been dead for some twelve days prior to the date of the letter La.mar ascribes to him. Moreover, the copy from which Lamar made the -translation here printed has been found in the Nacogdoches Archives. It is signed simply el govor. into. with no name. 'Lamar's translation and punctuation here are so poor as to destroy the sense; the Spanish has it por no haver consideraao convenien:te verifi,carlo por escrito.
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