George Huff to Stephen F. Austin, 01-29-1825 George Huff 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 05-25-2010 Jacob Huff Stephen F. Austin Woodville, Mississippi. 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 2, pp. 1026 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 01-29-1825 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

Emigration from Mississippi. Land. Mills.

Woodville January 29th 1825

My Dr Sir

this will Be Handed to yoo By Jacob Huff My Son and Peter Conrad with him I wish them to stay with yoo ontil I get there I Shall start from this Place in ten days Mr. Brooks who is with the Boyes is a Good and Honest Man I wish yoo to Settle him as Near the Mill Seat as you Can I wish yoo to furnish Him with tools to git me a set of House Logs on the Bernard ontil I Git there as I Must attend to the Building of the Mills I Shall Be there with A strong force and good work men I think to Have them in oparation in August Next or I Shall Lose My Judgement of Mill Building I think I will not Make Such a Hand of it as [Mr.] Toung did I wish you to show the Cane Brake . . . [on] John Huffs League to Mr. Brooks as he will make [a crop next?] year Mr Jesse H Cartright will ... he takes About fifty negros ... to Have Land as he goes on My word I wish you to Let him Have a Good League of Land for he is as good A Man as we have in this Country I wish you to Procure Me two yok of well Broke oxen and About 80 Bushels of Corn for I Shall want them things as Soon as I Git there all the things you Sent for By Me will Be there in Due time Mr Halleman dont go this spring as you saw through him I Shall say nothing About him ontil I see you I have A Great Deal to write But as it will Be But A few days ontil I See you I Shall stop

Geo Huff

Col S f Austin