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to let you know how it stands- The money ·can be collected without doubt, as he has plenty of property and Alfred is Monthly receiving a good salary from Govt. Gratitude alone I should think would have prompted him to come forward & tendered the amt for one years rent after occupying the premises for more than three years free of charge- Please write me immediately- for I shall bring suit at the next term of the Dist. Court- The family are all well and join me in affectionate rememberances to yourself Brother and family- I shall write to Cousin Loretto & Cousin Eliza today- Say to Cousin Lavoisier that I am very anxious to hear from him and now that I am at home- our correspondence will not be disturbed Very truly Yrs JAs. W. WEBB C or Genl Harney will take the "Georgia Cottage" at $1200. Brew- ster refuses to giYe possession, but Father will arrange that J. W. W. [Addressed:] Genl Mirabeau B. Lamar Care of Dr Thos 1 • R. Lamar Macon-,Bibb Co Georgia
No. 2402. LAMAR TO -- FONTAIN
Near Macon [Georgia] Aug 1849
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The papers in my possession relating to the Company Lands in Texas I herewith send to you, because it is entirely out of my power to attend to the business of the Company. My own individual affairs are in most desperate condition from which [I] fear that I may not be able to relieve t[hem]. I would advise an agent be de[spa]tched to Nacog- doches to see Genl He [nder] son and ascertain what he has done and the real condition of the Eleven league claim.- I think it was in Deer 1847 I employed Genl Henderson to compromise with the persons who had intruded upon said land upon the condition that they might retain their possessions by paying a fair and equitable price for the lands which they had so uncerimoniously surveyed and occupied. If they were unwilling to do this, Genl Henderson was instructed to in- stitute suit against them and' eject them by Law.- I have repeatedly written to him to ascertain what he has done in the matter, but I have not received any ans,ver to my letters. Hence the necessity of sending some one there to enquire into the state of affairs. If this cannot be done now, I would advise you to write to Dr James H. Starr of Nacogdoches, The only man in that section in whom I have any confidence.- He would probably see Henderson himself and would procure from him the desired [inf]ormation.- The Titles to Strode's l[and]-is in the office of the county Court of G[onz]ales, sent there to be recorded. Th[e contr]act is all safe. .Mordica's Land has never [been] surveyed, or located. He died 'before obtaining a Certificate from the county commissioners, without which no location can be made. I left the papers in the hands of Benj Franklin at Galveston, that he might ascertain whether a certificate
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