Auction Date:2010 Feb 10 @ 08:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Partly-printed DS, one page, 9 x 11.25, December 26, 1838. Lamar, as new president of Texas, appoints Henry Trott to the office of County Surveyor for the County of Harrisburg, to which he has been elected by a joint ballot of both Houses of Congress. Signed at the conclusion, “Mirabeau B. Lamar,” and countersigned by secretary of state Barnard Bee (father of two Confederate generals, one being Hamilton Bee, the other being Barnard Bee, the general known for having famously given the nickname “Stonewall” to General Thomas Jackson). In very good condition, with a few small separations along intersecting folds, lightly affecting both signatures, even overall toning, and several small edge tears and chips. The white wafer seal, blindstamped with the Star of Texas, is intact.
On December 10, 1838, Lamar was sworn in as president of the Republic of Texas. Though born in Georgia, he fell in love with the future Lone Star State during an 1834 visit to his friend, James Fannin, who also had recently moved and begun slave trading. Like Fannin, Lamar became a passionate revolutionary. During a return visit to Georgia to settle his affairs for the move, he learned of the massacres at the Alamo and at Goliad, where Fannin and 341 other Texas revolutionaries had been taken prisoner and executed by orders of Mexican general Santa Ana. Lamar rushed back to Texas and joined the revolutionary army as a private, where he was later commissioned a colonel on the field of San Jacinto just before the start of the battle and placed in command of the cavalry. During the battle, he distinguished himself by his bravery and quick action. After the Texan victory, Lamar was made secretary of war in the cabinet of President David G. Burnet, and in the fall of 1836 was elected vice president of the Republic of Texas.ÊScarce documentation from Texas’ origins. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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