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David Crockett Partial Autograph Document Signed. One page, 7" x 3" (sight), no place; October 11, 1834. Partial manuscript promissory note to William Tucker, signed by the famous frontiersman and folk hero while serving as a United States Representative from Tennessee. It reads, in full:"one day after date, I promis [sic] to pay or Cause to be paid unto William Tucker, just and full some [sic] of three hundred an[d] twelve dollars and fortee [sic] nine and a quarte[r] cent it being for Value Recd witness my h[and] and seal this 11 of Oct 1834." Signed, "David Crockett".
Tucker was the father of Crockett's close friend and business associate, Enoch Tucker. Enoch was elected with "Davy" as a commissioner of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee in 1819 and the two men co-owned a large track of land together until Crockett moved from the area in 1823. The document is recorded in James Atkins Shackford's definitive biography, "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend." It has been handsomely matted and framed to the overall size of 18.5" x12.75". Not examined outside of the frame.
Earlier the same year (1834), Crockett published his autobiography, "A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee," in an effort to correct his portrayal in an earlier work by author Mathew St. Clair Clarke. The Whig party seized the opportunity and used the book to publicize Crockett as a potential presidential candidate who could defeat Andrew Jackson. Unfortunately for Davy, it all came to naught when he lost his bid for a fourth term in Congress the following year.
Days after his defeat, Crockett met one last time with his Tennessee constituents and delivered a short speech. "I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong," he later wrote. "I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and that they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas." Then he and his rifle Betsey left "to give the Texians a helping hand." He was killed doing just that at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
Reference: Shackford, David Crockett, page 171.
Condition: Heavy edgewear with some loss to text. Separations at and along folds repaired on verso with archival tissue. Light dampstaining along horizontal fold. Right edge uneven, affecting the last "T" in Crockett's name, but only slightly. Scattered soiling. Pencil notation at upper right corner recto.
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