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Auction: 319 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the Americas
Lot: 3330

Southern Lif Insurance and Trust Company of Florida, 5% bond for $1000 or £225, 1839, #247, guaranteed by the Territory of Florida and handsigned by the Governor Richard K. Call on the reverse, large format piece with atractive scrollwork, coupons at each side and below, black, GVF

Richard K. Call (1792 - 1862), land agent, plantation and slave owner, became the largest landowner in Leon County. Appointed Governor by Andrew Jackson in 1836, losing the position in 1839. He was apponted again in 1841 for a second term.

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