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Kansas Territory Payment of Claims (63940)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:60.00 USD Estimated At:120.00 - 240.00 USD
Kansas Territory Payment of Claims  (63940)
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120.00USD+ (30.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2019 Jan 28 @ 09:39UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Claim No. 333, Award No. 323 signed by Commissioners Hoogland, Henry T. Acuanis(?). Vignettes of Eagle,woman holding scales in period dress, with sword. $115,000 Herald of Freedom Print at bottom left. This payment is "for the lots of property taken or destroyed, and damages resulting therefrom, during the disorder which prevailed in this Territory from November 1, 1855, to December 1, 1856" This disorder was the Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults and retributive murders carried out by rival factions of anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" in Kansas and neighboring Missouri." (Wikipedia) State: Kansas City: Date: 1859