A PAIR OF TWO REPUBLIC OF TEXAS NOTES, $100 CONSOLIDATED FUND OF TEXAS CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO JACK SHACKELFORD, SIGNED BY FRANCIS J. LUBBOCK AND WILLIAM G. COOK, HOUSTON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1837, lithograph on paper with manuscript in ink, no. 1346 and no. 1348, signed by Francis R. Lubbock, controller and William G. Cook, Stock Commissioner. 3 1/8" x 6 5/8" Note: Jack Shackelford (1790-1857) physician and surgeon, leader and financial backer of Texian Revolutionaries;  he personally furnished red jeans which gave them the name, the Red Rovers; he took part in the Goliad Campaign and survived the massacre, was captured as a P.O.W., spared to treat wounded Mexican soldiers, and finally Shackelford County named in his honor.Reference: Henry S. Foote, Texas and Texas II (1841); J.C. Duval Early Times in Texas (1892); Z.T. Fulmore, History and Geography of Texas (1915); The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association. Provenance: Estate of Dr. Paul E. Shutts, Houston, Texas.

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