This scrapbook PowerPoint is about the time I went to Austin's colony, how my family and I did, how we felt, and some pictures we took.

1. Austin’sHaque
By : Shanjidah
Colony

2. Introduction
The Financial U.S. Panic of 1819 left us bankrupt, so
we stopped using banks and stuffed it in our
mattresses. We had spoken with Stephen F. Austin
because he had chosen us to interview. The answers
we gave for the interview were that we were not
gamblers, not profane swearers, not drunkard, not
idlers, we were honest law-abiding citizens, were
willing to convert to Mexican citizens, and convert
to Catholicism. We had sailed west from New
Orleans with Austin and other families in heavy,
cold, and stormy days and the Lively ship swaying
left and right, which had made everyone seasick,
that was enough to have made us throw up.

3. Introduction
Our old house
in 1819.

4. 1822
The arrival to Austin’s Colony took about a week
long aboard the ship, we came here with $1,000 to
buy crops. Each acre cost $0.12 ,the husband
received 640 acres, 320 for the wife, 160 for each
of 4 kids totaling up to 640 acres for $192 that we
would pay $64 for 3 years. We bought 5 acres of
cotton & lumber, each acre for $5 and 10 for $10
each acre for cattle for a total of $150. The gross
income of $200 increased the investment money
from all the high demands for lumber because of all
the buildings being built, the investment return
being a 3,investment return for the harsh winter
that caused cattle to die was a 1, and the Lively
arrived late with the cotton and planting season was
over so it was a 1 in investment return. It was
challenging and exciting to start anew. Our family
was not used to having any modern day technology
and we had hard labor to do in the farm in 1822.

5. 1822 Stacked Wood Pile by
Caroline Steinhauer
Cattle in snow. Lots of construction with Lumber high in
lumber. demand.
Corn dying because
the Lively arrived
late.

6. 1823
In 1823, after we paid the yearly payment we were left with $922, we
bought 40 acres of cotton & lumber, and 30 acres of cattle, together
they cost $700 with $222 of investment money.
The investment return was 0 for cotton, 3 for cattle, and 1 for lumber.
The Lively sank thus we rationed our food because of a food shortage
and the Mexicans had a dispute over export of cotton. There was small
demands for lumber because there weren’t many buildings to build and
the mild winter was good weather for the cattle .
The gross income of $800 raised our to $1,022 that we stuffed in our
mattresses.
I was confident we would improve even more the next year.

7. 1823
Cattle in mild winter The Lively sank.
temperature.

8. 1824
The third year of 1824, we paid our yearly land payment
for the last year from our $1,022 with $958 left. We
bought 40 acres for cotton, 60 for lumber, and 30 cattle
for a total of $800 left us with $158.
It was a 3 for cotton and 2 for lumber and cattle on the
investment returns. There were bumper cotton crop, high
demands for lumber and cattle. We earned $1,800, which
was our gross income that made our investment money
go up to $1,958.
Since we lived in the town San Felipe, we didn’t face any
problems like Indian raids, and because we were a
profitable area we got $600 to make $2,258 and at the
end of the year we had gotten our farm.

9. 1824
The bumper cotton The high demands
crop. for cattle.

10. Paragraph 5

11. Paragraph 5
Our successful
new life in the
farm.

12. Resources