Tacitus Clay to Stephen F. Austin, 05-31-1827 Tacitus Clay 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 07-23-2010 Stephen F. Austin New Years Creek, 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. 1650-1651 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 05-31-1827 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

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New Years Creek

Col - Austin the tract of land which I wish you to reserve for me it being my Chois is on the south fork of this creek begining at or near where Allcorn desires haveing his upper line run thense extending up for quantity so as to include sd branch of the creek it being not a permanent stream without pen ink or paper it is necessary to be laconick

Tacitus Clay

May the 31th—1827.