Yazoo County MsArchives Photo Document.....Lamb, Jonathan Capt. Letter From George W. Terrell July 7, 1840 Envelope 
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Capt. Jonathan Lamb Letter From George W. Terrell July 7, 1840 Envelope
Date: 	July 7, 1840 (postmarked July 20)
From:	George W. Terrell (1803-1846), San Augustine, Republic of Texas
To:	Capt Jonathan Lamb  (abt. 1795 – 1848 or 1849), Benton, MS
RE: 	GW Terrell is in debt & is expecting Capt Lamb to get there.

Donated to:	Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Donated by:	From the collection of Laura Conrad White Stettbacher (1936-), 
2nd great-granddaughter of Jonathan Lamb
Transcription, formatted: Laura Byers Stettbacher Van Ness (1961-)
Last updated: 	19 Jan 2022

Envelope front: 
MADISONVILLE Mi. JUL 20
Capt Jnothn Lamb, Benton, Mip [Mississippi]

State of Mississippi To any Yazoo County lawfull
State of Mississippi
State

Transcription:
San Augustine Texas
July 7th 1840
Dear Lamb.
	I have written you so often without 
getting any reply that I am growing weary_ why 
do you not write_ I have never heard a word from 
you except by Dr King_ and that amounts to nothing. 
I have been expecting that you would either come 
over to see the country _ or write that you did not intend 
to come. I have been holding a place in reserve for 
for, [sic] a long time_ and I know if you were to see it you 
you [sic] would move to it. It is in one of the handsom
=est parts of the whole country_ a most beautiful 
elevation of about 200 acres of remarkably rich 
upland_ and 500 or 600 of bottom land as rich as 
the banks of the Mississippi_ with not an acre of 
swamp within ten miles of it_ A handsome small 
stream of clean running water that never fails, pop [?]
=ing directly thro [sic] it_ a first rate spring_ which 
affords plenty of water at all seasons of the year_ within 
60 or 80 yards of a most beautiful building site_ which 
is now covered (I saw it two days since) with grapes 
as large as the ordinary English grape in your Ten gardens; 
and taken altogether it is one of the most desirable places 
you have ever seen in any country.

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	I can purchase it upon good terms, and if you 
will agree to come here I will do so. I have 
no hesitation in saying that you can make one 
third more cotton, upon an average here than you 
now make where you are_ and your hands would 
enjoy uninterrupted health. I have cotton now 
opening_ and corn plenty have for horses to eat, 
to grate __. 
	I wrote you lately about Polly. 
If she has some ____ I want you to get her_ if not 
please get an order from Garrett  to get her at Paris . 
I have arranged the debt and it is either paid already 
or will be immediately by George[?] Lynch_ so that 
there is no further pretext for holding her.
Write me soon and let me know what you intend 
doing. If Tolls  would come here he could make 
$1000 a year by teaching school_ and I would be 
very glad for him to come.
	G.W. Terrell


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