This Agreement entered into this first day of [August] 1824
between Thomas Westall one of the settlers in the new Colony formed
by Stephen F Austin in the Province of Texas , and said S. F. Austin
witnesses , that said Westall has this day hired to said Austin four
negros to wit Lucy , Patsy , Elsy and Henry untill the first day of
January Eighteen hundred and twenty Six , for which the said Austin
agrees to pay to said Westall at the rate of one hundred and EightyLucys young child
Catharine —The said Westall hereby pays over the said hire to said
Austin towards the Expences on said Westalls land in the said new
Colony formed by said Austin
In witness of all which the parties have hereto Signed their names
at the Town of San Felipe de Austin in the Province of Texas
August 1, 1824 .
Stephen F. Austin [Rubric]
Thos Westall [Rubric]
Thomas Westall took the negro woman Lucy into his service on the
1 day of April 1825 from which day her hire is to be deducted from
the within agreement.
Thos Westall
Source
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 1, pp. 869-870