[15361 [MUSQUIZ to DIMITT]
[Ramon Musquiz, Bexar, to Philip Dimitt, December 18, 1835, about the actions of Luciano l'!avarro.] [15371 [ROBERTSON to PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL] To the Honble. the President & Council of the Provisional Govt of Texas- The petitioner Sterling C. Robertson respectfully states, that he is the agent of the Nashville colonization company in Texas, & Empresario or contracter in that behalf for the settlement of 800 families, foreigners,- that he has had great labor & difficulty in securing his rights, be reason of opposition, on part of designing men- that his colony is upon the upper frontier, greatly exposed to savage depredations- and must be soon entirely abandoned by its present inhabitants unless stTengthened by an encreased popula- tion- having been sensible of this & anxious to fulfil his contract with the then existing Govt. as well as for his own advantage, as for that of Texas- Your petitioner, last July, repaired to his native state, Tennessee, for encouraging emigrants to Texas-All was then favorable & pacific in the country, except some local discontents, which he had no expectation would either involve the countTy in war, or operate a change in Govt.- And that in good faith, your petitioner induced several hundred settlers families & single persons to agree to come to Texas as colonists of the Nashville Company- with promises of the certain & present security of . title to the quantity of land allotted to each settler by the colonization laws of 1824- confiding in your petitioners entegrity & honor which was \pledged upon the best possible ground, & in sincerity many families :have broken up & sold their estates in Tennessee, some at a sacrifice j& under many difficulties, common to a long journey at this season of the year, have followed him to Texas, where they are now anxiously waiting under all the discouragements of war Indians & unavoidable privations the fulfilment of the promises under which they have emigrated- others are on the way and others preparing to come. And your petitioner was entirely ignorant of any obstacles having arisen to prevent the full execution of his pledges until his arrival in Texas. Under these circumstances involving such disas- trous consequences lo settlers- and a forfeiture of his own honor &
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