[Transcript of letter from Stephen Austin to his brother Moses Austin, July 25, 1801] Page: 4 of 5
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30 years of the Greatest perserverance and Industry and Now
reduc^ to the Necessity to support my Self and family by my daly
Laboar and when I Cease to Breath they must beg or starve as work they
think they Cannot—in the assignment of the Lead Mines Property
it la Necessary you should Join [torn] of the Assignemt is that all jjS;
those who do sine a full discharge of Stephen *KK Austin and Moses ^
Austin before the first day of July 1802 are to receive all the
advantages of the property I have return^ in the skeduly all the
debt against Stephen Austin and M Austin and C° all which amo^
d
to about Fifty Thousand Dollars—the property as Valu in the
Schedule I have return^ amounts to 150 thousand Dollars valuing all
the Lead Mine property at 50 the assignees Viz John Field and Rich-
ard Jones one of the House of ±ha Jn^ Fry and C° and Richard
Bird Esqr New York--from the appearance of the propertyqp* assigned
I have no doubt but all the Creditors will sine the discharge You
had best therefore draw a short assignment of the Lead Mine to
the Same Gentl** and Send it forward to Mr Bird at New York or to
Jn* Field at Philad in the Partial assignemt I was
to make before this took Place I assignd your debt to Several Eng-
lish debt but which is so far within my Controal as that if you
will pay or Inform me how and when you will pay ten shillings on
the Pound due me as stated in your Acco^ I will Engage to obtain
a full discharge thus have I so far done with worldly Property as
to have no Expectation of Ever sb Possessing any unless the Concerns
I atill hold in the Property you are now in possession of will
rroduce me something and as I have done what you have urgd me to and
sacriflc** my all but my Life to Extricate you as well as myself
I hope you will think I have some Claims to your Exertions which I
allow to have been very great and if your life is spared by the
assistance of M? Bird and his friend* Meriult and Slbend I have no
doubt of your succeeding I am sorry you did not se Kennon
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[Transcript of letter from Stephen Austin to his brother Moses Austin, July 25, 1801], letter, July 25, 1801; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth216098/m1/4/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.