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Texas and German Emigration Company, 1854 Issued Stock Certificate.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
Texas and German Emigration Company, 1854 Issued Stock Certificate.
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This item SOLD at 2016 Oct 22 @ 14:09UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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Galveston, Texas. 5 Shares, I/U Stock Certificate. Black print with an simple black geometric border on left hand side of certificate, printed on light blue paper. XF condition with small hole along left border close to edge of certificate. Beginning in the 1840s, a wave of social unrest in Germany began a flood of immigration to Texas. The Texas and German Emigration Company, also known as the Adelsverein, purchased more than 4,400 acres of land in Fayette County advertising it as a settlement opportunity to Germans . Some 5,257 Germans arrived in Texas between October 1845 and April 1846. The largest and most well-known of their settlements are New Braunfels in Comal and Guadalupe County and Fredericksburg in Gillespie County. Historic certificate. (John E.Herzog Collection).