and also was robert triplett, the financier. so we're in their house, and they're trying to get this done, and finally rust comes out to triplett and says, well, we need to settle this loan business. and this is right at the end of march of 1836. he says, well, what's the terms that we can offer? and triplett says, huh, i was on my way over here and everybody was trying to get across the trail in sabine and get away from the mexicans and everybody was offering their land at 12 1/2 cents per acre. and rust says hey, that's not going to do it. we're not going to sell at 12 1/2 cents. he said, yeah, that may not do for you. he said but if i had my money and i had clear title, i could have bought all the land i wanted. but i'm willing to pay double. i'm willing to pay 25 cents an acre. and he backs off a little bit. and rust says -- and they went back and forth. and russ says, is there no way for you to compromise for this matter? he said let's say you take 50 cents per acre for what you've paid in. how many acres of land will it tak

they had also been partners with robert triplett in a land deal in nacogdoches in late 1835, but triplett had bowed out of the deal and decided not to invest the funds because he didn't feel like he could clear title. so the allen brothers went down to galveston where they were planning to put their city and they looked at the tract of land and they looked at the title and they said, you know, you've got title to this and menard's got title to this and i don't think y'all are going to work it out. so they had to pass on putting their city there because of the problems associated with that loan. so then they go up to harrisburg. well, harrisburg was at a navigabna navigable bend in the bayou where the turn in the ship channel is now. all the land was still there. and they wanted to buy that land from jane harris but they couldn't buy the land from jane harris because honest bob and william peter had still had a lawsuit against the estate and she didn't have clear title. so they went even further to the intersection of buffalo bayou and white oak bayou, bought two sections of land from the