Stephen F. Austin to Unknown, 11-10-1826 Stephen F. Austin Project Director and Editor Andrew J. Torget Creation of XML version Cameron L. Sinclair 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 08-14-2010 Unknown San Felipe de Austin, 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. 1500-1501 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Deposition 11-10-1826 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

Depositions concerning counterfeit gold piece

Department of Texas

Austins Colony

This day personaly appeared before me Stephen F. Austin Judge in and for the Colony aforesaid Isaac Foster who being duly sworn deposeth and Saith that sometime during the last Fall William Cooper a citisen of this Colony handed deponent a piece of money as a Gold piece considered to be a half doubloon with a request that depont would hand it to John Foster that sd John Foster might with it and other money delivered at same time purchase for Cooper a steel Mill in New Orleans—deponent says he accordingly delivered said piece of money to said John Foster with such instructions and says that sd piece of money was never out of depts possession from the time of so receiving it from Cooper untill he delivered it to said Jno Foster as afd—

I. G. Foster

Subscribed and Sworn to before me at San felipe de Austin this 10 Nov. 1826

Stephen F. Austin Judge [Rubric]

This day personally appeared before me Stephen F. Austin Judge in and for the Colony afdWm. Cooper a Citizen of the same who being duly sworn deposeth and Saith that sometime during the last Fall Robert H Williams a resident in this Colony handed depont a piece of money are [or] gold piece and considered to be Worth Eight Dollars in part payment of a debt due by said Williams to deponent—deponent says at the time of receiving sd piece of money from said Robert H Williams, nor at any time since has he had in his possession any piece of Gold of the denomn or supposed value of sd piece so recd from Williams says that shortly afterward he delivered the said piece of money to Isaac Foster in order to deliver the same to John Foster for the purpose of purchasing a steel mill for depont—says that the piece of money so delivered to said Isaac Foster is the same piece which he received from the said Robert H Williams as afd

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Subscribed by sd Declarant by making his mark and sworn to by him in due form at San felipe de Austin this 10 Novr 1826—

Stephen F. Austin [Rubric]

[Endorsed:] Coopers business relative to counterfeit half Joe to be presented to R. H. Williams for collection—