8 Mile point Sept 22nd 1835
Mr Pery
Sir I offer my best respects to you and family I congratulate you on
the arrival of our worthy friend Col. Austin and hope that his arrival at
this Critical Moment will be the Saving of our Country. I Saw him
yesterday at home he is well, at present, but had been very near Ending his
days by accident as he informed me he had sent down to town for a bottle of
Brandy and he had sent to him a bottle of the tincture of corose of
subliment he informed me that it puked and purged him at the most violent
rate posable. He sayed one teaspoonfull more must have taken his life—
but he is over it and well and will receive no further injury by it as it
operated in the way it did— I had some conversation with him relative
to the views I had of fixing my stock on Dickersons buyo I have been over
lately to that buyo and examined your land in order to select a suitable spot
for the purpose— I have chosen one if you are willing to let me have it
as we have talked of that is for me to have the labore on which I would
settle. You wrote me once that I must take it in one corner of one of your
land. this might not suit me attall as the soil is all poor— the Colonel
says he apprehends there will be no objections to my settling on any part
of the land that I may select. And if you are willing to give me a labore
where I have selected and will write me to that afect, I will go over and
prepare cowpens and take my stock over as soon as the river gets low
enough
I think Mr Perry that my preposials are not unreasonable as you have
two Leagues adjoining each other I think the law require that there shall
be put upon grasing lands 100 heads of horned cattle, and my stock will
amount to at least 200 head will be the settling of both leagues in the Eye
of the law— You will please to write to me as soon as posable as the
season is fare advanced to move cattle this fall: if the river gits down in
time to move them this fall. I want to do it as soon as posable. And if it
dos not I will go over and make preperations for to move them in the
spring I am offered choice of lands on the south side of the buyo but
the want of timber is a greate objection.
You will please write by the first opportunity
And Olige Your Cincere friend
Martin Allen
Mr J. Perry
[Addressed:] Mr James F. Perry Peach point politeness of Capt.
Richardson