Old US Cover Addressed To: \"Henry M. Morfit\" Baltimore,MD....Jan. 1864
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Old US Cover Addressed To: \"Henry M. Morfit\" Baltimore,MD....Jan. 1864:
$20.60
Henry Mason Morfit, United States emissary to Texas in 1836, was born between 1790 and 1800 in Norfolk, Virginia, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. For a while he lived in Missouri and later in Baltimore, Maryland. He married Catharine Campbell about 1816 in Washington, D.C. They had sixteen children. During the summer of 1836 Morfit was sent by President Andrew Jackson to investigate the condition of the newRepublic of Texas. His report, written in a series of ten letters from August 13 to September 14, 1836, and submitted by Jackson to Congress on December 21, 1836, was favorable to Texas but advised against immediate recognition of the republic, chiefly because of the threat of a new Mexican invasion. In 1861 Morfit was elected to the Maryland legislature. He died in Baltimore on December 1, 1865, and was buried in Washington. Henry M. Morfitwas one among several prominent members of the Maryland Legislature who were arrested in 1861 by orders of Lincoln’s War Department under suspicion of their loyalty to Union. This cover has an intact US stamp of the period with 2 nice cancellation dates of: Jan. 26th, 1864. New York to: Baltimore, MD. Age Staining, US Stamp intact with nice cancellation. Pencil writing on reverse.
Old US Cover Addressed To: \"Henry M. Morfit\" Baltimore,MD....Jan. 1864:
$20.60