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ed from the wife's father could not be taken for the husbands debts.
Mr. K. was absent when the sheriff came. I told him everything here
had come from our fathers, but one horse & the carriage, that I had
taken the carriage to secure myself for the loss of my saddle & trunks,
that Mr. K. had talked of giving up this land to pay the debt, but
said I, "I have never known what poverty was till I came here This
land was purchased with horses Pa gave myself & sister, & I do not
choose to be turned out of house and home, afoot, for the indiscretion
of Mr. Kenney's brother. You shall not have that either." He went
to San Felipe' made his report & the prosecuting atty. ordered him to
levy on all he saw. He did so. I then wrote to the Judge requesting
him to forbid the sale. He (a bar keeper who ran away from Uncle
Sam) refused. I then employed a lawyer who came here with a good
reputation, to defend me, which he promises to do. So the matter
stands.
I want you or Martin8 to get me a cheap good saddle, have it boxed
up with leather for some bridles & fill the cavities with my tacts
[tack?] and some wool & my bed quilt stars that Maria gave Betsy
& direct to W. C. White, Bell's Landing, & Geo. Huff & Son,' San
Felipe. There is nothing I do not need.
I spent 3 weeks in San Felipe last fall with an old couple by the name
of Huff. They have been very kind to us indeed. The old lady wished
me to teach school there & offered to give me my board, but she has
since left town & the place is unhealthy. I could not agree to spend
the summer there, so I declined it. If you could possibly procure me
a Negro boy worth $2oo in any of your trades & wait till the farm is
sold, you would confer a great favor. I could then raise cotton enough
to procure my groceries & clothes. I suppose you could get one i o years
old for that sum & send him by some emigrant who would be respon-
sible for his delivery. Northern people will never have any health
here in the summer if they labor in the sun. Negroes or sickness are
indispensible. You can have no idea of the heat of a vertical sun, nor
7San Felipe de Austin, located on the Brazos River in what is now Austin County,
was the headquarters for Austin's colony. Webb and Carroll (eds.), Handbook of Texas,
II, 55o.
SMartin was another of Miss McHenry's brothers. Hardin Papers (Chicago Historical
Society, Chicago).
*George Huff, one of Austin's original colonists, owned a business in San Felipe and
a plantation nearby. Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred," The Quarterly of
the Texas State Historical Association, I (October, 1897), 113; Webb and Carroll (eds.),
Handbook of Texas, I, 858-859.396
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