The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, July 1926 - April, 1927 Page: 143
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Diary of Adolphus Sterne
this conversation was broken off by some one coming up & taking
him away-
Thursday 13th- Wrote letters to Messrs. Leplecher, Bangs,
J D Cleary & E Salzman to go pr "Cuba"- sent in one packet
addressed to Mr Bangs, one to the Clerk of the "Correo"- Called
several times on Genl Chambers without finding him- Was in-
troduced to Mr Delmour of San Antonio, an acquaintance of Mr
Bowditch
Friday 14th. Wrote a letter to Mr W H Vanhorne of Columbia
enquiring about Mr Ricord's papers &c Called on Genl. Chambers
who informed me the Probate Court was not sitting, nor would
sit before the first monday in Jany- Learned that the Mr
De Witt who was to buy the half League of Land belonging to Mr
Salzman, was dead 4 months ago (in July)- Saw Genl Chambers
after dinner, who had been in quest of the Judge of the Probate
Court all the day Ordered an Office copy of Dr Grant's will-
Conversed with a Mr Nelson from Trinity who knows something
of the League belonging to John M Adams Says it is a good
league with some cane bottom & lies 5 or 6 miles below the Town
of Cincinnati
Wrote to Mr Bangs enclosing R Pitkins receipt for 2 certificates
No 339 & 340 for 640 acres of land; and for a Draft on the
Treasury for $233.20
Wrote to Capt Hand San Augustine Respecting his claim on
E S. Sutherland
Wrote to Mr Ben Clark Nacogdoches by desire of Mr J D Cleary
on matters between them
Saturday 15 Deer 1838 Waited on Judge Briscoe of the Pro-
bate Court, and introduced myself as the Agent of Mr Hugh
Grant who informed me, he saw nothing to prevent my acting as
the representative in the Succession of the late Dr James Grant-,
Spoke to him also about Mr Navan' business, and left the power
of Attorney & affidavit of Fidjear- Went to the War Office and
fell in with a clerk who knew the late Mr Gerald Navan when
going to attack San Antonio de Bexar, & who promised to further
his operations were checked by the outbreak of the Texas Revolution.
See Ogilvy to Pal:enham, August 20, 1839, in Garrison, Diplomatic Cor-
'respondence of Texas, in Annual Report of the American Historical Asso-
ciation, II, 597-599.
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