Zenas Priest to Stephen F. Austin, 12-25-1821 Zenas Priest 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 07-12-2011 Stephen F. Austin Jackson, MO Texas 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. 454 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 12-25-1821 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

Introducing Samuel Dixon.

Jackson [Missouri] 25th Decr-1821

Sir, Having been introduced to you at your Fathers (Potosi) and formed a short but agreeable acquaintance and having some knowledge of your political character which stands fair in our State, I am induced to Introduce to your notice my friend Capt Saml. Dixon the bearer of this letter.—

I believe Sir, you will find him as I have done a gentleman of good character of a handsome education Industrious, firm to his purposes confidential to his friends, he understands surveying and navigation theoretically and practically, acquainted with mankind having travelled much both by sea and land it is the opinion of myself and his friends in this quarter, that he deserves to be patronized and as such I cordially recommend him to your friendship-

Zenas Priest

[Addressed] : Stephen F. Austin Esqr. Province of Texas Capt. Samuel Dixon