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Sight Draft from Mordecai & Co. to Tobias Hendrick & Co., Charleston, South Carolina, August 19, 1859

Sight draft for $2800 issued by Mordecai & Co. to Tobias Hendrick & Co. of New York City on August 19, 1859. Tobias Hendrick & Co. was a well-known copper firm. The draft is graphically striking. Additional historical notes from an unknown source claim that Mordecai paid to have Confederates killed at Gettysburg and brought them back south on his ship in 1870.

Associated People/Businesses

Lowry, R. H.
Mordecai & Co.
Tobias Hendrick & Co.
MORDECAI, M. C. / HENDRICKS, TOBIAS

Geography

Charleston

Subjects

Business records
Copper industry and trade

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 7, Folder 1