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| Scott Number | 1 |
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| Date | October 4, 1848 |
| From City | New York |
| From State | NY |
| To City | Baltimore |
| To State | MD |
| Addressee | Mrs. Harriet G. Fulton |
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| Quantity 1 | 1 |
| Quantity 2 | 0 |
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Cover from New York City to Baltimore. Stamp cancelled with two red square grid strikes.
Image submitted by Ken Gilbart who indicates that the cover is not his but belongs to a deceased friend and the family wishes to remain anonymous.
Alexander listed as 10/4/48
FULTON, GEORGE WARE, SR. (1810–1893), founder of the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, the son of George and Ann (Ware) Fulton, was born in Philadelphia on June 8, 1810. He became a schoolteacher, watchmaker, and maker of mathematical instruments and lived in Indiana in Montezuma and Terre Haute. He organized a company of sixty men who started in a flatboat down the Wabash River heading for New Orleans to fight in the Texas Revolution, but they arrived in Matagorda Bay in February 1837, after the battle of San Jacinto. Fulton received a commission as second lieutenant in the Army of the Republic of Texas and for his services was entitled to a grant of 1,280 acres of land, which he took in San Patricio County. He resigned from the army and was commissioned by John P. Borden, first commissioner of the General Land Office, to convey all of the ancient land archives from San Antonio to Houston. He formed a friendship with Henry Smith and on March 12, 1840, married Smith's eldest daughter, Harriet G. He was appointed customs director of the Aransas District on June 18, 1838, and served until January 1839. During this time he helped promote Aransas City on Live Oak Peninsula as well as several other properties along the coast. The Fultons left Texas in 1846 and settled in Steubenville, Ohio, his old home, and later in Baltimore. He worked for the Baltimore Sun and then for several railroads. When Smith died in 1851, Fulton was appointed executor of his estate, which included a considerable amount of land in the Aransas Bay area. In 1867 a suit that had clouded the title of Smith's land was settled, and the Fulton family returned to the Texas coast.
Image submitted by Ken Gilbart who indicates that the cover is not his but belongs to a deceased friend and the family wishes to remain anonymous.
Alexander listed as 10/4/48
FULTON, GEORGE WARE, SR. (1810–1893), founder of the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, the son of George and Ann (Ware) Fulton, was born in Philadelphia on June 8, 1810. He became a schoolteacher, watchmaker, and maker of mathematical instruments and lived in Indiana in Montezuma and Terre Haute. He organized a company of sixty men who started in a flatboat down the Wabash River heading for New Orleans to fight in the Texas Revolution, but they arrived in Matagorda Bay in February 1837, after the battle of San Jacinto. Fulton received a commission as second lieutenant in the Army of the Republic of Texas and for his services was entitled to a grant of 1,280 acres of land, which he took in San Patricio County. He resigned from the army and was commissioned by John P. Borden, first commissioner of the General Land Office, to convey all of the ancient land archives from San Antonio to Houston. He formed a friendship with Henry Smith and on March 12, 1840, married Smith's eldest daughter, Harriet G. He was appointed customs director of the Aransas District on June 18, 1838, and served until January 1839. During this time he helped promote Aransas City on Live Oak Peninsula as well as several other properties along the coast. The Fultons left Texas in 1846 and settled in Steubenville, Ohio, his old home, and later in Baltimore. He worked for the Baltimore Sun and then for several railroads. When Smith died in 1851, Fulton was appointed executor of his estate, which included a considerable amount of land in the Aransas Bay area. In 1867 a suit that had clouded the title of Smith's land was settled, and the Fulton family returned to the Texas coast.
