John Rice Jones to Moses Austin

Item:	John Rice Jones to Moses Austin
L.J.T.P.  Number:	200.005 (and 200.005.01)
Medium:	Letter
Creator:	John Rice Jones
Date:	July 17, 1813
Period:	Pioneering America  1801 – 1860
Keywords:	John Rice Jones, Moses Austin, Henry Dodge, Mine a Breton
Citation:	Jones, John Rice. John Rice Jones to Moses Austin. 1813.  Library of John T. Pregler, Dubuque. (Source: Library of John T. Pregler)

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Letter Text [sic]

Sir/

That I shall at the next Term of the Court of Common pleas to be holden in and for the County or district of St. Genevieve in the Missouri Territory apply and petition to the said Court to appoint Commissioners for dividing a Tract of land containing Seven thousand one hundred and fifty three arpents thirty two and 2/3 feet of  land situated at the mine a Burton in the said County, between you and myself, agreeably to our respective Rights and Titles therein, in pursuance of a Conveyance by you to me made of one undivided of if the past or those thereof, boaring date on or about the 24^th Day of June 1807, and further to proceed in making such Division or partition in all things conformably to the law of the Territory in that Case made and provided – Dated 17^th July 1813 –

M^r Moses Austin ./.                                                                         Jno Rice Jones

St Gen

Reverse Side

Delivered a Copy of the within notice to one Moses Austin on the 19^th of July 1813. H Dodge.

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