This day personaly appeared before me Stephen F. Austin Judge in and for the Colony aforesaidIsaac Foster who being duly sworn
deposeth and Saith that sometime during the last FallWilliam
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—
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
FallRobert 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