Colo Stephen F. Austin
Dear Sir the amount of the inclosed account is not only half
price for the Servises and attention I paid to the oald man you
heard Doctor Miller say that he could not Live over three days and
that he could not attend on him any Longer you then asked me
to Give him medison and do all that I could and you would pay
me Stateing he was Exiled from his country and it would be a
pitty to Let the oald man Lay and die like a brute I attend on him
day and night for the time Specified in my account which he was
helpless as a child nearly all the time Mr. James Whiteside who
will hand you this Letter can inform you the Same and that I
freecantly called on him to let me have some of his blacks to help
wash and dress the oald man. Colo Austin I want my deed for my
Land and if you have a mind to pay my account fifteen dollars
can go to you as commissioners fees for my deed and an order for
the ballance in any store in town will answer your compliance
with the above will oblige yours
James Small
13 Jan 1832
Be So good as to inform me if the Land I petitioned to
government for was granted
James Small [Rubric]
[Inclosure]
Jany 12 1832
Colo Stephen F Austin
To James Small Dr.
by your assumption for taking care of Don Cevastian rodriges one month - $30 00