It is the wish of the Company that they as a Company may be
Recognized as the proprietors of the colony, that the persons names
assigned to the Memorial may be Recognized as Directors of the
company, the company Concisted first of 52 persons towit Nelson
Paterson—William Campbell—Ira Ingram—J. Roan—W. Tanne-
hill—Felix Robinson—Thos Hill—William Barrow—Sam B.
Marshell—J. McLoughlin—John W. Overton—John P, Erwin—Simon
Bradford—John Criddle—George A. Bedford—John Waters—
Henry P. Loyd—Alexr—Barrow—Horace Green—E. Talbot—Daniel
A. Dunham—Peyton Robison—James R. Robertson—John M.
Robertson—Pleasant Craddock—William B. Robison—David B. Green—
William Harding—Sam. Houston—John D. Bowen—A. W.
Johnston—Charles Douglas—John Harding—Abram Demoss—Will
Williams—John Davis—-James R. Baslie—Isaac. Watkins—Robert
Hill—Leonard P. Cheatham—Will White—James S. Martin—James
Pateson—Edward Daniel—Hugh Rollend Josiah Horton—Roger
B. Sappington—Abram P. Murray—Joel Parish—S. C. Robison
[Robertson]—Sam L. Whorton—Mathew Barrow—
After Andrew Erwin and Robert Leftwich went on to Mexico the
Company held a meeting and Twenty two persons more became
interested whose names I have not but amongst them is Andrew
Hynes—Richard Hyde John Shelby and James Overton who is now
Directors of the company—
After the Return of Mr. Leftwich from the Republick of Mexico
to the united States those 74 share holders had a meting and
Subdivided Each share in to 8 Parts making 592 in all and distributed
them amongst their Particular friends in Certificates intending that
Each-Certificate should entitle a man to Save [sic] a League square
of land, they having the Requisate Qualifications prescribed by the
colonization Law—and these persons amongst whome thease
Certificates wer divided Paid in the Sum or Sums of mony mentioned
in the Companies Memorial, it is therefore praied by the company
that Every person holding one of those certificates shall have a
preference of Settleing in the colony to one that has none until the 592
is setled and then the ballance of the 800 Families to be setled in the
ordinary way they at the Same time complying with the laws of the
Land—
they also desire that the boundery of the colony may be Extended
making the Colorado River the Boundery on the west and if any
further Extention can be added in any way it will be much advantage
to the Colony to do so—and be thankfully received I am Authorised
by the company to Vouch to the Government in their name that
they will introduce none but honest industrious Agriculturists and
stock Raisers the most of whom is wealthy, and that the
population shall be Immediately brought into the Country to an amount
sufficient to defend that [part] of the Frontier, that all due faith
and obeidence shall be observed toward the Constitution and laws
of the Government and due Respect paid to all Constituted
Authorities.
from your Experience in the Buisness of collonizeing and
knowing as you do the Foliey of the Government it is much safer for me
to depend entirely on your Judgement to point out the Necessary
Requisites for the advancement of the colony which I hope you will
attend to than to prescribe my self should the Change be made
according to the Prayre of the memorial you will pleas to inform me
by letter Immediately that I may communicate with the company
and be preparing for the Settlement-
San Felipe De Austin the 10 Sept 1827
H. H. League