George Orr to Stephen F. Austin, 05-23-1827 George Orr 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 07-21-2010 Stephen F. Austi( Atascosito, Texas 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. 1643-1644 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 05-23-1827 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

Concerning theft of horses.

Atascosito May 23,1827

To Col. Stephen F. Austin

Sir Some days ago Burrel Franks who lives on the Nachez River near the lower crossing was examined before Henry W. Munson and myself relative to certain Thefts lately committed in this neighbourhood— He stated among other things that a stranger who called himself Hawkins had been at his house—that he (Hawkins) with one Clement (sometimes called Reno) were the persons who had comitted the thefts on the Trinity—that they had a cavalarde of sixty or seventy horses above the San Antonio crossing on the Trinity River that those horses they had stolen from the settlements on the Brassos and Colorado—I have thought proper to communicate this to you for the benefit of your settlement—for further information on the subject I refer you to Doct Brown who will hand this—

George Orr