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PAPERS OF :MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
he is an honest man like )'r friend E. W. but he is deficient in edu- cation void of experience & without much discernment- & will prob- ably lose his own lands as well as mine if unassisted, the foregoing narrative will shew that my "fancy for Texas" even if ruinous io my- self & children," has not been "a transient freak" (as gentle-men possc:-:st tlwmsel vcs of the most praise worthy personal discretion have <h--liµ·atc<l it upon the female members of their families to propagate) but a permanent "freak," of at least of !) yrs standing J. B. LYNCH [Arldressed :] Genl. l\f. B. Lamar, Texas
No. 1046. J.B. LYNCH TO --TAYLOR
Fehr 6th, 1839 Louisiana Carroll County
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I left Tennessee about a month since with Thomas & Esther, pro- posing to leani the latter with Dr Barton, & proceed myself to Texas, but my usual luck attends me. I found on our -arrival here that Dr Barton had been dead for 2 or 3 weeks, & left his estate insolrent. so ·r gain a law suit with his creditors, & lose an asylum for my daughter · besides 1 of the few friends I have ever found, I. shall have to return ~'ith E who is in bad health & cannot be left with strangers; to Ten- nessee. I regret muc·h my not being able to see you. I propose~l .to ha,·e pass'd 2 or 3 weeks with you, & either have settled all my affairs there & arranged every thing for a final move next ,1·inter to reside permanently there, or if found more difficulty in arranging my bm:i- ness to have sold out my interest in Texas entirely & settle on till' Mississippi. but I am disappointed. I have written to Gen! Lamar requesting him to refer me to some 1 who can be relied upon as an agent, & to whom I wish you to give all the information you can both as to the 5 tracts in Yr hands. & as to that I was to have obtained from Knight. I sent )'Ou a certificate of yr age from yr ?lfothcr-she & family were well the first week in January J.B. L. for the purpose of pnying the taxes on the 5 half leagues, as also on the last to be procured from Knight, I propose to have recourse to the money Nibb's has collected from Flack's estate-if he has col- lected any, otherwise from Earl Williams note to me I propose to come down the l\Iississippi next November, send my children by way of .i\fobile to my sisters in Carolina, take part of (my negroes who:-:e time for working on shares here will expire on 1st December) with me to Texas, & pass the winter with you. I wish you to keep with you for yr own use, untill my arrival next January, & to hire out April & Caesar to the best advantage consultiJ1g whoeYer shall be ap- pointed to attend to my law business in 'l'exas. You may eitllC'r hire them by the month or untill the 1st December next-th<'y arc too frw to make a settlement & are only gitting into idle habits, us I :;hall not have an opportunity of bri11ging you the articles ,rou requestt'd from N Orleans, I enclose you one hunclre<l dollars with whid1 you ma_,. purchase them in Texas. yr mother propo:;ed departing soon nt'tt'r we left 'l'cnnessee for Ol1io, to see after her property thNe, & rcmnin for
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