Letter from Thomas F. McKinney in Velasco, Texas, regarding supplies needed for the business, and special ordered for Jared and Leonard Groce and W.H. Wharton.
E.H. Cushing, editor for Houston's Weekly Telegraph newspaper, urges readers to send enslaved laborers to Galveston to assist in building fortifications.
Anglo settlers had been bring enslaved people with them as they came to settle in Stephen F. Austin's colony, but Mexico was opposed to the institution.