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State of California Relief Check to John A. Sutter [160132]

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State of California Relief Check to John A. Sutter [160132]
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Sacramento, CA Nov. 5th, 1867 Engraved check (State Controller's Warrant), for $250, filled out in ink, signed by Controller Geo. Oulton. 5x10". The check, the purpose of which is listed as "subsidy," is made out to John A. Sutter or D.O. Mills & Co. Atty.; it is endorsed on the verso by D.O. Mills & Co. acting on Sutter's behalf, with notation "Relief of Genl. John A. Sutter." Sutter's vast holdings of land in California had had been wrested from his grasp in the wake of the California Gold Rush, and by 1852 he was virtually bankrupt. Sutter received a modest stipend from the state government of $250 a month as he sought to regain his empire. In 1871, he was in Washington, D.C., presenting claims to the U.S. government for his lost holdings. He was not successful, and he died in Washington at the age of 76. Not signed by Sutter. Fine. "John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 Ò June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and was a Swiss immigrant of Mexican and American citizenship, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital. Although he became famous following the discovery of gold by his employee James W. Marshall and the mill-making team at Sutter's Mill, Sutter saw his own business ventures fail during the California Gold Rush." from wikipedia.

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