Texian Loan

Date

1836

Location

Texas

Amount

$320

Signatures

  • B. J. Archer
  • Robert Triplett
  • S. F. Austin
  • W. H. Wharton

Description

This stock certificate (No. 264) is issued for the amount of $320 as a loan from the state of Texas. It is signed by Stephen Fuller Austin, a founding father of the state of Texas, as well as the state's first secretary.

Notable Bond Imagery

At the top center two fish are lying in front of an anchor with a shell with two blank flags and unique tridents in the background. Notice the distinct patterns in the corners. The triangular hole in the center may represent that the loan has been nulled.

This black and white ornately bordered certificate shows fish, an anchor, a shell, two flags, and tridents; there is a triangular hole in the center
The back has no writing and has a triangle hole cut-out
Transcription 
						The Texan Loan certificate reads:
Texan Loan
Three Hundred and Twenty Dollars
No. 264
Government of Texas
Six Hundred and Forty Acres of Land
	Received, of Robert Triplett Thirty-Two Dollars, the First Installment on a Loan of Three Hundred and Twenty Dollars, made by him this day to the Government of Texas for five years, bearing Interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum, payable annually. L— given, according to contract, when the other Installments — required, at which time they may paid or not, at the option of the said Robert Triplett or his assignee.
	For the amount paid, Land in Texas may be taken at Fifty Cents per acre, with the guarantees and conditions of the contract aforesaid. 
		In Testimony Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, and affixed our seals, in the City of New-Orleans, this Eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred thirty-six.
Signed by the Commissioners on the Part of Texas
L.S. S. F. Austin
L.S. B. J. Archer
L.S. W. H. Wharton

The back of this document is blank.

Accession No:

2017.002.001