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December 14th. 1630 Dear Sir, At you are about to tet out for the teat of Government, I beg leave to requett that you will have the goodnett to bear in mind the application which I lately made through you for an additional quantity of Tend - and I earnestly tolicit your friendly nid and influence in procuring the same - You will the jjore readily aee the reasoneblenett of my application when I frankly acknowledge to you that the government hat already granted to me fully aa much land and as of good quality aa I could expect, or atk for but at the tame time that lajh it not well calculated for a atock farm and I now only atk for an additional league, moetly prarie. and taken too in a part p of the colony where all the detirable lande have already heen taken and euch at hae been heretofore refuted by all the Colon- ittt entitled to land in the Government, - Should my petition b<& cr^nted I am willing to locate South of and adjoining Kmm jo*^ Hmy%**4*&**Land or any of the unlocated, and untimbered landt on big Creek * this I atk becaute the next year I intend to devote a considerable portion of my meant to the raiting of stock - Your friendly aid in thia a* fair will attach to you for- ever the friendship of a man who hat never been otherwite than friendly - I am with great respect and etteem your most Cbt and verry humble servant (Bigned) Wyly Martin Colo-* C^^&hen F. Austin $ewn of Auatiu
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[Transcript of Letter from Wyly Martin to Stephen F. Austin, December 14, 1830],
letter,
December 14, 1830;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth217482/m1/1/:
accessed April 25, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
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