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crops appeared, the cotton found its way either to 108 N. Orleans, Galveston, or Matagorda. In the case of a farmer, he brought his family & stock. this fields became laden with corn, his prairies with catch & the good barn had abundance of poultry, & when they were an industrious & thrifty people a Kitchen garden & sow a flower garden was added to their settlement. Where the Emigrants were educated peoples, the simple log house, had independent of every ? comfort, oftimes? objects of luxury. The American Emigrants would arrive ^ in Texas say by the Red River: he would take up the first unlocated land that suited him, or he might purchase land ^ at a very reasonable rate; his party might be composed of himself, wife, sons & daughters; the elder children on horseback, the younger with the Mother in the 'Jersey' Waggon containing blken? in their baggage, household, farming & carpentry implements not forgetting the Axe, moreover a few pet pigs ^hogs, poultry, garden seeds &c.

 The settlements they passed would be kind and hospitable to them; they would select a spot; their wagon would be their

first domicile. The axe would now be called into requisition, the trees would soon be felled, a substantial "log hand erected