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Auction Name: 2025 November 8 Historical Manuscripts including Texana Showcase Auction
Lot Number: 67009
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[Republic of Texas]. Francis Lubbock Signed Pay Order. 6 x 3 1/2 inches, Houston; April 9, 1838. A pay order made out to "Ralph Sowter" for "Fifty Two 50/100 Dollars...for the payment of the Military actual survey." Signed "Francis R. Lubbock" as Comptroller, and additionally signed by John Wyatt Moody as Auditor. Endorsed by Sowter and "J. S. Nickelson" on the verso.
Francis Richard Lubbock (1815-1905) was appointed by President Sam Houston as controller of the Texas Republic. He was serving as Governor of Texas at the outbreak of the Civil War. An avid supporter of the Confederacy, he worked to improve the state's military capabilities. After his term of office ended, Lubbock enlisted in the military, was appointed lieutenant colonel and served as assistant adjutant general on the staff of Maj. Gen. John Bankhead Magruder. Lubbock was eventually appointed aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis. As an expert on the Trans-Mississippi Department, he provided Davis with detailed information on the war west of the Mississippi River. With the defeat of the South, Lubbock fled Richmond with Davis and was captured by federal authorities in Georgia.
Condition: Somewhat toned with smoothed folds. Cancelled in ink twice, touching Lubbock's signature which also has a bit of ink blotting. Pencil annotation on verso.
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