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crops appeared, the cotton found its way either to 108 N. Orleans Paluesla, 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, otimes 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