Item #64998 SAMUEL KENNEDY'S MANUSCRIPT NOTE REQUESTING THAT JOSEPH WHITE PAY JOHN W. MOORE $30, TOWN OF AUSTIN [TEXAS] 6th MAY 1829.
SAMUEL KENNEDY'S MANUSCRIPT NOTE REQUESTING THAT JOSEPH WHITE PAY JOHN W. MOORE $30, TOWN OF AUSTIN [TEXAS] 6th MAY 1829.

SAMUEL KENNEDY'S MANUSCRIPT NOTE REQUESTING THAT JOSEPH WHITE PAY JOHN W. MOORE $30, TOWN OF AUSTIN [TEXAS] 6th MAY 1829.

Small promissory note, 4 x 7.5 in., signed by Samuel Kennedy: "Sir please to pay to John W. Moore thirty dollars and oblige yours." Docketed on verso "Sam'l Kennedy's Order to Joseph White $30," plus a short note of acceptance, signed by J. White, 6th July 1829. Item #64998

According to the Handbook of Texas [Austin: 1986], Joseph White (?-1830), and Samuel Kennedy (?-ca.1833) were both members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists. Following his father Moses Austin's intention to form a colony in Texas, Stephen Austin secured permission from the Mexican government in 1824 to settle some 300 families in Texas, with the promise that they would occupy and improve the land within two years. The lands selected were along the Brazos, Colorado, and San Bernard rivers. The town of San Felipe de Austin [in this promissory note referred to as "Town of Austin"] was the main center of the colony. All but four of the original colonists could read and write, most were from the southern United States, and several brought their slaves with them. In addition to families, single men were allowed to make a group and apply for a land grant.
Joseph White and his family came from Georgia with his wife, three children, and five slaves. He was elected alcalde at San Felipe on Dec. 21, 1828. He bought several lots in San Felipe de Austin in Dec. 1829 and took over a debt owed by Horatio Chriesman, another of the Old Three Hundred. White died in June 1830.
Samuel Kennedy formed a partnership with Horatio Chriesman, arriving in Austin's colony as early as 1823, to cultivate Martin Varner's land grant. By April 1824, he received title to 'a league and a labor of land' now in Fort Bend County. The 1826 census lists him as a widower. He is referred to as a farmer and stock raiser, but was known locally as "Dr. Kennedy." He died sometime in 1833.

Price: $275.00

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