My time in Austin’s colonyJulian Mendez

Witherspoon-1

11-18-11

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Today my father said that we were going to one

of Austin's new colony's.

Most of the family was terrified of Indian attacks

but are father convinced us so we left.

I really did not want to leave are home.

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So today we set of in the levelly it has been an

extremely hard trip so far but I feel we will get

there saftly.

1822

Are new colony is called Victoria it is extremely

bountiful.

The lively has not come yet and winter is coming

soon I really hope it comes soon we need new

supplies.

1822

Its really cold and some of are cattle has died but

we should be thankful are naber has lost most of

his cattle .

So far its been a bad year with all the snow.

1823

Today we got news that the lively sank.

It was pretty sad scene it met we weren't going to

get are supplies.

But the good news is my father had a huge

bumper crop so we made a hole lot of money.

1823

Today my father converted are family to

Catholicism and he said soon he was going to

convert are family to be Mexican citizens.

My father keeps bringing me to the field I don’t

want to but it makes him happy.

1824

My father just made are last land payment he

was so happy .

And we made a another bumper crop in cotton .

1824

So now my father had officially owned his 1920

acres of land.

And there was no Indian attacks this year thank

god .

It has been a good year my whole family is

happy.

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So my father decided to stay here in Victoria.

He talked about how it was such a good choice

to come here.

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He also said from those 1000$ in his bed we

made 1869.4$ it was a good year here.

From this to this.

Resources First Last. texas.

Photograph.

medium, log caben

village.

hariweinsheimer. tide

lands. N.d.

Photograph. Medium kratochvil petr. contry

side. N.d. Photograph.

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