. Sixty years in Texas. d selectioncould secure for themselves an estate equal to theestates of the lords and noblemen of England. Theyrepresented this country as having a delightful cli-mate, no chilling winds or driving snows, but onecontinuous spring and summer, with all manner offruits and wild game in abundance, clear and beau-tiful streams of water, with plenty of fish. My father, having a large family and a very littleof this worlds goods, decided to emigrate to Texasto secure land for his boys, Stewardsville being theobjective point, and represented by the agents asbein the capital of
. Sixty years in Texas. d selectioncould secure for themselves an estate equal to theestates of the lords and noblemen of England. Theyrepresented this country as having a delightful cli-mate, no chilling winds or driving snows, but onecontinuous spring and summer, with all manner offruits and wild game in abundance, clear and beau-tiful streams of water, with plenty of fish. My father, having a large family and a very littleof this worlds goods, decided to emigrate to Texasto secure land for his boys, Stewardsville being theobjective point, and represented by the agents asbein the capital of Peters Colony, and headquartersof the land agents, and all information concerningthe colony could be had at Stewardsville. Early in1848 we took ship at Liverpool in the Gypsy 1st of March we bade farewell to our dearfriends, and left the shores of Merry England forthe western wilds of a new world. My mother wasa weak and frail little woman, with a large family,several small children and a baby in her arms, and. JOHN JACKSON, SR.
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