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cloathing and taxes and to continue at the same rates per month until further orders from me. My intention is to sell them if they are not sold now, but prices must alter here if I ever propose them again on the terms I now do it is to save further trouble and expense. If your brother Blackstone is any where in that country give him long long boy, 1 barrel of pork and the bearshare plow sent by Mr. Thomas Maury and tools sent down by T. J. H. and exchange beds with him. The other barrel pork sell for 30 dollars, less would not make me whole, if your brother is not there sell horses tools and pork if fair prices can be had and bring the money. Blackstone wrote from Holstin 27th November he and all his family was then started for Attacapas, and I have not heard of him since. Should Mr. Lewis think it his interest to take Ned, Mark, Simon & Dan on a hire for three years successively at 100 dollars each and send the money to me each and every year without expense to me he may have them. If he does not I have no wish for him to take them. If Thos. J. Hardeman had have wrote me immediately on his arrival which was expected and his duty to have done I would in all probability have been there myself before now but he has neglected so long that I have declined for this season. Some horses at least one will be necessary to ride home. Ned can walk with spelling some time on the way I now conclude with advising you to recollect the several conditions named in this letter and from the whole tenner do the best you can as you know money will answer best, let that be your first object for every thing I have to sell in that place but if money is collected take care of it and not lay it out as some does for little tackey for the sake of riding home. Good mules for a horse might do if money cannot be had. I have wrote a number of letters to you and Lewis that I have not heard anything of. My best wishes attend you with all friend and connections in that country to whom I desire to be kindly remembered. /s/ Your affectionate Father Thos. Hardeman. Mr. Peter & T. J. Hardeman.
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| | In 1816, Thomas Hardeman moved from Williamson County, Tennessee, to Howard County, Missouri. He bought part of Barribeau’s tract near Franklin, Missouri, where he also owned town lots. In 1820, Thomas Hardeman paid taxes in Howard County, Missouri, on 1,200 acres of land and four slaves.
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| | Thomas Hardeman returned to Tennessee in September 1830, to Boliver, Hardeman County, and then to Williamson County, in 1831.
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