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The Pawnee Association issued this certificate for "one share of the town property" to Thomas Sherwood, a business associate of Kansas Territory governor Andrew Reeder. Sherwood was involved in many of Reeder's land and town share transactions. This printed certificate is more elaborate than the ones issued earlier in the year.
Creator: Pawnee Town Association
Date: July 21, 1855
Item Number: 90610
Call Number: John A. Halderman Coll. #370 Box 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90610
Collections - Manuscript - Halderman, John A.
Community Life - Town development - Town companies
Date - 1854-1860 - 1855
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Governors - Reeder, Andrew H
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Deed
Places - Cities and towns - Pawnee (Geary County)
Places - Counties - Davis (1855-1889)
Places - Counties - Geary
Places - Forts and military installations - Fort Riley
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Business records
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