Permission is hereby granted to William Kincheloe to settle in the
Colony now forming by me on the Brassos and Colorado Rivers in
the Province of Texas, and the said Kincheloe is authorized to select
a mill seat anywhere within the bounds of the Colony, and also to
choose tracts of land for [ ] Families now on their way to said
Colony, he is to mark the tracts chosen by him both for himself
and the other families, and to report to me or my agent the situation
thereof— And in consideration of the Said Kincheloe agreeing
to build a mill on the mill seat which he may choose within one year,
he is to have Six hundred and forty acres of land in addition to
the quantity which he may be entitled to in common with the other
Settlers, and one lot in the Town. The town lot is given gratis, and
there is to be no charge on Said additional Section of land except the
Surveying fees—
Said Kincheloe and the families who are now coming on with his
are to receive land as follows—The head of each family is to get Six
hundred and forty acres and in addition to that three hundred and
twenty acres for their wives, one hundred and Sixty acres for each
child, and Eighty acres for each Slave to be taken in two seperate
tracts, one on the river with a front four times less than its depth,
and the other so as not to interfere with the river lands. The said
tracts or one of them, must be actually inhabited and cultivated by
the persons to whom the permit to settle is given before the 1 of
January 1823— Twelve Dollars and fifty cents pr. hundred acres
must be paid me one half on recipt of title and the other half in one
year thereafter, which will be in full for Surveying and all other
charges
Nackitosh Oct. 16. 1821.
Stephen F. Austin [Rubric]