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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
RECEIPTS FOR LEAD
Receiv4 of Sam 1 Staples 61 Bars of Lead weighing Twenty five Hundred and Twelve pounds for M Austin ELIAS BATES [Rubric] Herculaneum Feb 1 20 th 1817 Received from Samuel Staples Fifty Barrs of Lead for account of Stephen Fuller Austin and C 0 • not weighed· for Elias Bates
MosEs AusTIN [Rubric]
Herculaneum Feb 1 26 1817 50 Barrs Lead
NOTE OF HAND
N° 74 due 30 Apl Potosi Feb 26 th 1817 Sixty days after date I promise to pay to Stephen F. Austin and C 0 • or order Five hundred Dollars without defalcation payable and nego- tiable at the Bank of St Louis for value Received charged to S. F. Austin SAML. PERRY [Rubric]
U>TTERY TICKET l
POTOSI AOADEllY LOTTERY
First Class
N°· l N°. one This ticket will entitle the bearer hereof, to such prize as may be· 'drawn to its number, subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. L BnowN Prest. of the Board of Oommis'ers. J N° H WEBER Secretary. Potosi, March 8 th 1817 1 Thia Ucket Is No. 1 in a booklet containing seventy-two tickets numbered consecutively. They were printed six to the page and were clipped orr as sold. This sbent was evidently taken by Moses Austin for sale, and notes on the stubs ot missing tickets In bis hand writing show the disposition made of them: Number 6, " Sold to Wllllnm Gale March 21 " ; Number 14, "James E. B. Austin. Sold" ; Number 20, " Delivered (:olo Pettitt nnd recd 144" ; Number 21, "E. Weber Sola"; Number 22, "Emily B Bryan Sold"; Number 33, "Sold to wm Inge"; Numbers 49-;j0, ".Mary Austin Sold."
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