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Republic of Texas Certificate of Stock, $500, 1840 [167000]

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Republic of Texas Certificate of Stock, $500, 1840  [167000]
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No. 674, issued to Joseph C. Eldridge in June 1840 for $500. Signed by Charles DeMorse and Comptroller Simmons. DeMorse, the Texas Stock Commissioner, was tasked with funding the republic's mounting public debt under President Mirabeau B. Lamar. Two allegorical vignettes. Southern Bank Note Company. Ten coupons attached. Multiple cut/spindle cancels, toning. Reverse is signed by Eldridge. 7.5 x 10" Eldridge was early Texas Indian commissioner and United States Navy officer born in New York City on May 8, 1818. He moved to Texas from Connecticut in 1837. During the ten years he lived in Texas, he served as commissioner; in 1843 he was head of the peace party that went into the Indian country. He was appointed assistant paymaster in the United States Navy on February 2, 1847, and served with several commands including that of Commodore Oliver Perry, which opened Japan to world trade. Eldridge also participated in the expeditions for laying the Atlantic telegraph cable. He retired from the navy in 1878 and died in New York on August 14, 1881. Texas 1840