At Home in Texas 149 both white and brown in pieces. Bring tin cups. Por- ringers. Any man working 2 days in the week may take his gun and fishing rod the remainder and his horse. Bring your clean english blankets both second hand and new, as you'l get a horse for one fowl. Bring a candle mould. Bring Jerry a good long fowling piece. Mrs. McMains bring as much tickin as you can, as they were it in trowses here. Mrs. McMains do not be daunted the prospect here is good. Bring your beds. you'll have no work, your daughters can milk 50 cows for you, and make butter which is 25 cents a lb here, in Matamoras 50 cents. A cow has 2 calfes in 10 months a sheep and goat 3 year- lings in 15 months. The healthiest country in the world. The richest land will show like Gentlemens domains in Ireland. Fine wood and water as in any part of the world. As for game and fowl and fish of every kind no man can believe, but those that see. Go to Mr. John or Martin Wates 49 Duand Street, and they will more fully let you know. Give our love to all inquiring friends. Yours until death. Jemima and Mary Toll. P.S. Bring corn mills, do not bring such a mill as I brought, as it is only a pepper mill. Bring mills with handles, such as you see in chatham square. Show this letter to John Waters. you get a league 3 miles square a labor of 177 acres a town lot of one acre square. Single men one fourth each gets when of age in addition to, you pay $100 to government and has six years to pay, they take Colony produce, the best laws in the world. The Indians are very kind and loving to each other. I was at two parties here we assemble and amuse ourselves." For many years afterwards the residents of San Pa- tricio spoke of the great fiesta which took place on the banks of Agua Dulce Creek, to which McMullen and McGloin had invited their many friends from Matamoros. Since the empresarios had at one time been prominent in business in that Mexican border town they probably thought to adver- 'David Wooman, Jr., Guide to Texas Emigrants, 168-169. (Boston: Printed by M. Hawes, for the Publishers, 81 Cornhill, near N. E. Museum. 1835.)