Found Ephemera: 1867 Jefferson Texas Samual F. Mosley Land Agent Postal Cover

This cover has a large stamp on the left-hand side that reads,

“Sam F. Mosley & Co. Atty’s at Law & Land Agt. April 15, 1867, One Million Acres, Land For Sale. Jefferson Texas”

Samuel Fountain Mosley was born on November 15, 1818, in Madison County, Alabama. Moseley became one of the earliest settlers in eastern Marion County, establishing a 1400 acre cotton plantation eight or nine miles east of Jefferson in 1846. He was active in the civil war and had to receive a Presidential Pardon from President Andrew Johnson. Samuel F. Moseley died on January 23, 1878, and is buried in the Wilkinson Cemetery, the family burial ground near Smithland.

Learn more about Samuel F. Moseley here in the Historic Jefferson Foundation Newsletter.

The term cover pertains to the outside of an envelope or packages with an address, typically with postage stamps that have been canceled and is a term generally used among stamp and postal history collectors.

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