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.Abram Gosnay, he aided Brown, l\Iiller Teel & Carnes
off from l\fatamoras. [Endorsed] .Anecdote of San Jacinto
No. 1667 [183-?, :MIRABEAU BUONAP.ARTE LA:\LAR, HOUSTON? TEX.AS] Notes upon the l\Iexican War of Independence, especially the activity of Bernardo [Gutierrez de Lara] to 1814. .A. Df. 24 p. No. 1668 [183-?, :MIR.ABE.AU BUON.AP.ARTE LAM.AR, HOUSTON? TEXAS] "Causes of the Texas Revolution &c. . [from] the Laws & Decrees of Coahuila and Texas." .A. Df. 2 p. No. 1669 [183-?, I. W. BURTON]. EXPERIENCES IN TEX.AS 09 I was born in the State of Georgia at a place called the Cherokee Corner in Clarke County, but was raised and educated in Richmond County near .Augusta in that state = .At 16 years of age an unsolicited appointment of Cadet in the l\Iilitary School at West Point in the State of N. Y. was given me by the War Department at the instance Judge R R Priest and Genl. Elliot - l\Iembers of Congress from my native state and trustees of the institution in which I was then edu- cating Of this appointment I proved unworthy and left the institutipn at West Point in the month of February next ensuing my admission = not however for want of Capacity but from utter want of application and perfect recklessness of consequences = I returned to my nat~ve state in the spring and from that time untill I entered my 27th. year I followed or prosecuted in the United States various modes or schemes for a living in none of which however have I been either eminently successful or peculiarly unfortunate so that but little of interest or importance could with a due regard to veracity be recorded in these notes of mine = I might with a little effort of fancy embellish some of the scenes of my Hunter life which lasted some years = But as these notes are written not so much for others as myself and not so much in reference to former as oow acting scenes those friends who may chance to take a peep into these interesting pages may remember the scriptural adage on observation "Friend I give that which is my own" and of course am at liberty to mete it out .About this time (my 27th. year) I became acquainted (in the State of Louisiana) with a certain Blue Eyed Girl whose father was about rem0ving to Texas and feeling a certain and hitherto unfelt
..A. D. Mutilated; incomplete.
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