Boone Whiteside to Stephen F. Austin, 11-28-1824 Boone Whiteside 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 07-18-2011 Stephen F. Austin Navasott, 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. 978 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 11-28-1824 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

Application for land.

Navasott 28th November 1824

Sir

some of the young men of this neighbourhood has obtained a quarter League of land I have never applied for any though I think myself as much Entitled to it as any Other of my age I was amongst the first in the colony and of Cours had to under go as hard times as any Other and if you think proper to let me have land I will take it on a Small Creak a Considerable distance from boath Rivers and Navasott you will Confer a favor by Writing to Col Coles and let him know whether you will Exced to my proposition or not, Boone Whiteside

Col Stephen F Austin