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Promissory note to Austin for settlers to use in requesting land title - Front. June 19, 1830. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. May 26, 2022. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/earlytex/item/91/show/89.

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Title	Promissory note to Austin for settlers to use in requesting land title
Date	June 19, 1830
Description	Promissory note to Stephen F. Austin for settlers to use in requesting land title, with three locations sited.
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Texas--History--To 1846 Mexico--History
Subject.Topical (Local)	Mexican Colonial Era
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	San Felipe, Texas
Genre (AAT)	financial records
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Location	ID 1973-001, Box 1, Folder 11
Original Collection	Early Texas Documents Collection
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Front
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	eatex_201210_0011_001.jpg
Transcript	fcSO.OO S.11T FELIPE DE A7STIH, /rjs HAVING been received by g. F, AUSTIN, as one ofthe Settlers under his contracts with Government, in conformity with the terms published by him, 20th November, 1829;—lpromise to pay to said S. F. Austin, or order, the sum of FIFTY DOLLARS, in two payments, that is to say: Ten Dollars, on receipt of my Title for Land as a Settler, under said contracts, and Forty Dollars, one year after the date of said Title: to bear interest at the customary rates of this Colony, from the time it becomes due until paid: which payment I promise to make without defalcation: and I hereby renounce all the benefits, exemptions and privileges of the laws, which I might use to retard or evade the prompt payment of said -y ?ums; and I execute this note in this language, because I do not understand Spanish, e / ^t<^ I WITNESS. S '' <^ —-^^^