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California Gold Rush Exchanges- Sending Money Home [166759]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
California Gold Rush Exchanges- Sending Money Home    [166759]
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This item SOLD at 2023 Dec 10 @ 16:16UTC-8 : PST/AKDT

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Very unusual and rare lot we discovered going through an old collection of miscellaneous documents. Here are two distinct pairs of exchanges (each a Second of Exchange) issued to husband and wife Isaac and Mary Jennings, sending money home to New York during the 1850s. One of the very unusual aspects of this group is that the family was very careful to spread their money through four different banks, insuring that if one bank went broke, the others might make it. The four exchanges date over a fairly long period, 1853-1861. To Mary Jennings: 1853 Adams & Co. $30, 1857 Page, Bacon, $30, to Isaac: 1858 for $300 Manning & Branton (sp?), Sather & Church 1861 $140. Mary and Issac were permanent residents of Wallkill, Orange County, New York. In 1860 they appear in the 1860 census with three children, one newborn, another 1 yr. old, and another 4 yrs. old. The pair were apparently married in 1854/5, with Mary four years Isaac's senior. The pair had two "colored" housekeepers in New York, perhaps attesting to their success in California. Isaac may have been a member of the California Militia in 1853 in Jamestown, Tuolumne County._x000D_
The exchange documents themselves are worth mentioning. The Adams form has the famous mining sluice box scene. The Page Bacon has great graphics. San Francisco California