James Newell to Moses Austin, 11-20-1795 James Newell Project Director and Editor Andrew J. Torget Creation of XML version Debbie Liles Initial TEI Formatting Stephen Mues Programmatic and Manual TEI P5 Compliance Ben W. Brumfield Digital Stephen F. Austin Papers 06-12-2011 Moses Austin Austin Ville, VA Unknown Eugene Barker, ed., Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1919: The Austin Papers, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924), 3 vols., Vol 1, Part 1, pp. 25-26 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 11-20-1795 Programmatic restructuring and manual clean-up to comply with TEI P5 2.3.0 Restructured to meet TEI P5 standards Digital creation of XML file

Virginia land business.

Recd from Moses Austin four Hundred Dollars in full for a location of land in the Counties of Wythe and Russell of One Hundred Thousand Acres which said land I promis to have Surveyed and returned as soon as Possible the said Austin furnishing money to pay all the expences attending the same such as surveyors fees and other Charges I also promis to survey Twenty five thousand Acres on Clynch as also an entry of said Austins on New River, made by me which has been prevented for the want of money to pay the necessary fees making in all 145000 Ac

100000 for Austin Lauman and Blanchard but in the name of Moses Austin

25 Thousand Acres for M Austin on Clynch

20 do do for do on New River

145000

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Austin Ville Novr 20th 1795