Notice

My Brother John Lee Andrews of Houston Texas

requests me to say to the people of Va, that he would

like to exchange lands in Texas for Negros,

Or he wants [to] join any any one who would like to

send there Negros to Texas, in farming there, from

one to ten years, he John Lee Andrews furnishing

the land and they the labour, and divide the

net profits on just and equitable proportions,

he will furnish from 50 to 100,000 Acres, or any

quantity that may be needed for the aforesaid

purposes, this 25th day of August 1861

Samuel Andrews

probably the text for a handbill or newspaper advertisement

MSS 11909