John P. Coles to Stephen F. Austin, 04-06-1826 John P. Coles 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 06-10-2010 Stephen F. Austin Bravo, Texas San Felipe de Austin, 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 2, pp. 1304 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 04-06-1826 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

Asking instructions concerning juristiction in Robertson's colony.

Bravo—6th April 1826

Dear sir

We have been Looking for you for a week past at this place Doct. Robertson has Returned Home To Tennessee without Effecting any considerable object in the country above he has written me and says that he wishes the authority of this Colony to Extend above untill ther should be forty familys settled in that Colony I am Now Requested to Remove Early who has put them all at defiance and says that he will hold his place in spite of them and threttens the Life of the Barrer of this who is the owner of the Tract of Land that he is on Maj. Sterling C. Robertson what should I doo in this case shall I put Early off or not

Jno P Coles [Rubric]

[Addressed:] Col. S F Austin San felipe de Austin P. Maj Robertson