Harrisburg, April 15, 1827.
Col. Stephen F. Austin
Dear Sir at the request of the widow McCormick I have taken
the liberty to address you on the subject of her difficulties with
Johnson Hunter, while acting as alcalde I recd an Order from you to
appoint six disentristed men to settle all difficulties between them I
made the appointments agreeable to your request, and the Arbitrators
awarded to John Hunter thirty Nine Dollars with costs, of suit. Mrs.
McCormick has caled on Jackson, the Alcalde for an appeal in order
to have a new Trial and have it brought before your honor. Jackson
refuses to grant it on the ground that all such suit was to be settle'd
in this district, her object in visiting your place is to get an order
from you to the alcalde of San Jacinto to send the papers up to you.
and have it try'd before your honorable court at the next Term—
Earle has arrived at the mouth of the Trinity with the Schooner
Augusta, with four or five families on board, you informed me that I
could have my league altered so as to make it wider than the present
survey, as it now stands it is only 2400 Bars wide the alteration that
I want to make is not agoing to interf ear with any one. and I would
be under obligations to you to forward by Mrs. McCormick. the
plot of my league of land on Buffaloe Bayou, (or a copy of it) that I
deposited in your, your compliance will lay me under many
obligations.
John R. Harris [Rubric]