D sir it has been 28 days since we left San Felipe and we have
Came 235 Miles Our company was nearly all sick when we started
and have been much worse on the Boad than they were before, we
have lain hear about a week on account of the ill health of Mr Jn
Robison who has-been thought dangerous a part of the time but is
no[w]Convelescent and thinks he will be able to Travil on tomorrow,
I Expect you learned from Mr McNeal the circumstance of my
geting crippled by a fall from a horse from which I have suffered Much
and am not yet Recovered but have my health perfectly in all Other
Respects. I have recived two letters from home since I left your
town one from my wife dated 6 August which informed me that
thare would be considerable Emigration from Tennessee to your
Coloney this fall. I this morning Recived another from william
D Horton my Brother in law who Visited the country with me, you
may perhaps Recollect I told you that he Rote to me from Nachitoches
on his Return that he had declined coming to the country, he tells
me in his presint communication that he was Very sick and low
spirited at the time he rote and thought at that time he would not come
but on Regaining his health he changed his notion he informs me
that he has procured the Ten families that you granted me
permition to Settle in your coloney as was agreed on between him and
me before we parted and himself and them are all prepairing to come
to the country—on the first Rise of the River, he also informs me that
my Father in law and Doctor Porter a brother in law together with
a considerable number of Gentlemen from the Vicinity of Nashville
will visit your country this winter. Could I have known all this
before I left San Felipe I should not have went home at all for he
informs me that he is prepairing to bring my family Out. and it
would have been highly Important for me to have Remained and
made preparations to Recive them as well as the other Emigrants,
but as I am On the way I will continue On and assist them in getting
out as soon as possible. I wish you if it is possible to Reserve a League
of land for William D. Horton on the Barnard or Bay Priarai and
if that can not be done as near as Possible to my League at Ginnings
o[ld?] camp on the Collorado River, you will also confur on me a
grate favour by paying some attention to the selecting and surveying
the ten Leagues above the Labaha Road as it is likely my settlers
will wish to go on Immediately, and above all I wish you without
fail to write to me at Nashville On the subject of Slavery and the
provisions of the constitution generally. I shall in a few days leave
the company and go on to Nashville as Speedily as possible and it
would be a matter of the highest importance to Recive a
Communication from you as soon as I get home for should slavery be abolished
it would produce some Change in my seletion of Emigrants I shall
be at a loss in my arrangements until I heare from [you]. Give my
Respects to Majr Burn[e]tMr Williams etc