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Document, Arkansas Territorial
Document, Arkansas Territorial
Document, Arkansas Territorial

Document, Arkansas Territorial

Object number2010.003.01
Date1834-1835
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions12 5/16 x 7 1/2 in. (31.2 x 19 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum collection
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    DescriptionFormal Arkansas Territorial document - Aaron Goza application to Gov. Pope. The top part of the document states Aaron Goza received $1200 in full for three notes due in March, 1834-1836. This was given to Goza by order of Arkansas Territorial Governor Pope. Written by Chester Ashley. The bottom part of the document shows this has been officially recorded by the Chicot County Court clerk/recorder, James Blaine Clark. Recorded in Record Book B, page 113-114 on July 31, 1835.

    The letter transcribed:

    1834, July 30th Received of Mr. Aaron Goza twelve hundred dollars in full for the three notes due 1st March 1834, 1835, 1836 (without interest by order of Gov. Pope) whom handed to Mr. Goza an order given by Gov. Pope to James Blaine to deliver said notes to A. Goza.
    -Chester Ashley

    State of Arkansas
    County of Chicot
    I James Blaine Clerk of the Circuit County Court and Ex Officio Recorder within and for the County of Chicot, State of Arkansas, do hereby certify that the foregoing instrument of writing was filed in my office for record on the 22nd day of May A.D. 1835 and that the same is now duly recorded on record.
    Book B pages 113 &114
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
    my hand and affixed the seal of my office
    at Columbia this 31st day of July AD 1835
    and of the Independence of the United
    States the (?)
    James Blaine Clerk and
    Ex Officio Recorder

    Reverse:
    Aaron Goza application to Gov. Pope

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