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list him as a printer until June, 1832, when he has become a
farmer, working for Jose Doste (Joseph Durst). Three letters
in the Bexar Archives of the University of Texas give a little
additional information. Jos6 Ignacio Ibarvo, Alcalde of Nacog-
doches, wrote to, Ramon Musquiz, the political chief, on June 2
that three young Americans arrived that day, bringing a print-
ing press. August 4 he wrote that Slocum had been received as
a. citizen and had taken the oath required of printers not to- dis-
turb the, peace with seditious papers. With this letter he for-
warded to the political chief a "printed copy" (impreso), per-
haps a prospectus of the Advocate. On August 17 Musquiz for-
warded this information, with the paper, to the governor, saying
that he had no copy of the law concerning printing and knew not
what to say to Ibarvo. On November 25, 1829, Musquiz sent a
communication to Ibarvo with instructions "to print it at once
in the periodical, Mexican Advocate, which is established in that
town."13 And on December 4, 1829, David G. Burnet wrote
Austin from Cincinnati, Ohio, that he had recently seen a Nac-
ogdoches paper containing a notice of Brown Austin's death.14
This was probably one of the earliest issues, for Brown Austin
died in New Orleans on August 17.15 There is no record of
Slocum after 1833.164 So- far as is known, no copy of his paper
exists. Does the fact that Slocum appears in the census as a
printer until 1832 indicate that the paper continued publication
until that time? Very probably not.
Texas Gazette, 189-1832.-- The first number of The Texas
Gazette is dated at San Felipe de Austin, Friday, September 25,
1829.17 Plans had been under way for some time, and issue at
"In Nacogdoches Archives, Texas State Library.
"Austin Papers.
"H. D. Thompson to Austin. New Orleans, August 19, 1829. Austin
Papers.
"Winkler, in THE QUARTERLY, VIII, 272, note 2.
"The late A. C. Gray in his "History of The Texas Press" (in Wooten,
editor, A Comprehensive History of Texas, II, 368, ff.), gives Tuesday,
September 29, for this date. He got his information from Colonel Guy
M. Bryan, and Colonel Bryan's error was no doubt due to the fact that
No. 3, which he had in his collection, was dated Tuesday, October 13.
Though nominally a weekly, the Gazette was subject to many exigencies,
and appeared somewhat irregularly. The same error appears in an article
read before the Texas Press Association in May, 1886, by Judge A. B.130
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