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VERY FINE. A REMARKABLE AND VERY RARE LETTER TO ONE OF THE KEY FIGURES IN THE AMERICAN FUR TRADE, WHICH WAS CARRIED ON A LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY OUTPOST AT YORK FACTORY, USING CANADIAN AND UNITED STATES MAILS, AS WELL AS HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY’S PRIVATE EXPRESS.
Zone” was special district in Canada for the Native Americans of the Moravian Mission. Donald Ross was born in Scotland in 1797 and joined Hudson’s Bay Company in 1816. He became secretary to George Simpson in 1826 and went to the Columbia River with him in 1828. Ross quickly rose to become Chief Trader in 1829 and Chief Factor in 1839. He was in charge of Norway House from 1830 to 1851 and died on November 19, 1851.
Ex Risvold (Image)
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VERY FINE. A RARE LETTER FROM THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS TO CANADA VIA NEW ORLEANS.
This lengthy letter is from Daniel McDonald, a Canadian serving as sheriff in Texas, to his brother in Gananoque. McDonald was part of the Mier Expedition, an unsuccessful military operation launched in November 1842 by a Texas militia against Mexican border settlements. He was liberated from Perote Prison and his letter contains interesting content related to criminal and other matters and includes the statement we have no doubts about annexation now”.
Ex Steinhart and Dr. Robertson (Image)
EXTREMELY FINE. THE EARLIEST AND FINEST STRIKE OF ONLY THREE RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE CHEROKEE NATION INDIAN TERRITORY DATESTAMP. A RARE MARKING ON A LETTER WITH FASCINATING CONTENT ABOUT DAILY LIFE OF THE MISSIONARIES IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN INDIAN TERRITORY.
Reverend Jessy Busyhead settled at Baptist Mission in Oklahoma in 1839, following the Cherokee removal from the East. He held services in his home until the Baptist Mission was established in 1841 by Rev. Evan Jones. A Cherokee National School was founded near there in 1843, and the mission established a female seminary there in the same year. The Mission Board of Boston furnished a printing press, and The Cherokee Messenger was printed at this mission, which was the first periodical in Oklahoma. According to the website http://cherokeeregistry.firstlightonline.org , a rift developed between the Missionaries, with slave owners on one side (Busyhead owned slaves) and abolitionists such as Evans on the other. This led to a schism among Cherokee Baptists as early as 1844-45, with Evans expelling Cherokee slaveowners from the church. This provided an opening for Southern Baptists, who started competing missions for slaveowners, who tended to be from the wealthier class. The Mission Station was burned by Confederates during the Civil War because of the missionaries’ anti-slavery teachings, and the mission was never rebuilt.
The post office at Cherokee was active from 1842 to 1844. According to the American Stampless Cover Catalog (p. 324) This post office is not listed in Shirk’s First Post Offices within the Boundaries of Oklahoma. After the eastern boundary line of the Cherokee Nation was accurately located, the town of Cherokee was found to be a few miles east of the line and actually in Arkansas. However, the markings of this 1842-44 post office are listed here (under Oklahoma) because they are among the earliest in the area to employ the ‘Nation’ designation.”
Three examples of this marking are known: 1) Sep. 15, 1843 from Sarah Hibbard to her sister Deborah in Manchester N.H., ex Chase, Bleuler, offered here; 2) Feb. 17, 1844, from Sarah Hibbard to her parents in Gilford N.H., Siegel Sale 1010, lot 2, ex Chase, Bleuler; and 3) April 8, 1844 from Sarah Hibbard to Rev. Babcock in Thetford Vt., ex Risvold and Kramer (Siegel Sale 1088, lot 85).
Ex Chase and Bleuler. (Image)
VERY FINE. THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE BAPTIST MISSION, CHEROKEE NATION, CIRCULAR DATESTAMP ON COVER AND ONE OF THE FEW POSTMARKED COVERS KNOWN FROM THIS CHEROKEE NATION POST OFFICE IN PRESENT-DAY OKLAHOMA.
The Baptist Mission post office was established on July 5, 1850, with Rev. Evan Jones as postmaster. It apparently operated as a Confederate post office during the Civil War. It was discontinued on June 22, 1866.
William A. Musgrove (1814-1880) was a well-known resident of Baptist Mission, who ran a small mercantile business, manufactured plug tobacco, kept beehives, and ran wagon-, furniture-, and cabinet-making shops” (The Papers of Will Rogers). Musgrove also served as postmaster and likely introduced the Baptist Mission C.N.” circular datestamp, which is also found on the Confederate 25c scrip issued by Musgrove in 1862 (an example was offered in Stack's John J. Ford Jr. sale).
The addressee, Andrew Nave, was a Cherokee merchant and the son-in-law of Chief John Ross. In 1863 the Nave home was attacked by Confederate marauders led by Stand Watie, and Andrew Nave was killed during the attack.