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corn for my horse, and took lodging for the night. Supped on fried sausage, bread and milk. Made a bargain with him to take a league of land in Austin's Colony, to clear it out for him,[45] and take half myself. Harry Davis Gary married the daughter of James Walker, who gave him the land on which he lives. Has three children, and his wife's nephew, a youth of thirteen lives with him. Yet all sleep in one room, and that a rough log house, open in every direction, and one door never closed. A heavy storm of rain came on in the night, which beat on me where I slept. [On back in pencil] Sanders Walker 1/4 league |