2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
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MORDECAI, George Washington (1801-1871) was attorney, planter, financier, entrepreneur, and railroad and banking executive, was born in Warrenton. His family was Ashkenazic Jews. Stock Certificate, 8" x 5", for 50 shares of the Raleigh & Gaston Rail Road Company, issued July 3, 1838, Raleigh North Carolina, ink signed by "Geo(rge) W(ashington). Mordeca" president. This certificate pre-dates the opening of the railroad The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad was a Raleigh, North Carolina, based railroad opened in April 1840 between Raleigh and the town of Gaston, North Carolina, on the Roanoke River. It was North Carolina's second railroad
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