Josiah H. Bell to Stephen F. Austin, 05-01-1824

Josiah H. Bell to Stephen F. Austin, 05-01-1824 Josiah H. Bell 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 07-17-2011 Stephen F. Austin Brazos, TX 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. 782-783 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 05-01-1824 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

Oath to the acta constitutiva. Militia election.

Lower Settlement of the Brazos

Sir

Acording to the instructions under the date of the twentieth of April last I met the people at James B. Bailys and read the Constitutional act together with the other papers accompany [ing] it those who came forward and took this oath ware as follows James B. Baily—John Jones-Joseph Callahan—Benjamin Fowler Cornelus Smith—Shubeel Marsh—Smith Baily—Wm Singer—Saml Carter—John McCormick—Owen H. Stout—James Nelson—Wm. Bery—David Shelby—Charles Johnson—Joseph Stewart—Patrick Dowling — James Crunk — Wm Pelmare —David Frame — Wm Roberts—John W. Peter—Joseph Dupangh—John Bradly—we then after administering the oath proceded to Elect a Military officer James B. Baily was Elected Lieutenant to whom I handed over the instructions I had in that case

J. H. Bell

May the 1st 1824

Col Stephen F. Austin