Branch State Bank at Chicago $1 bank note

paper currency

Branch State Bank of Chicago $1promissory note, May 1, 1839 with cross cut cancellation. Obverse: black on white with vignette at top depicting harbor scene with square-rigged ship and several smaller sailboats, a fort is visible on shore; payable to John Alexander McClernand, Lockport, IL, May 1, 1839; printed on left "ONE"; printed on right "ONE/ ONE/ DOLLAR/ ONE"; handwritten and printed top left "F/ NO. 449"; handwritten and printed top right "F/ NO. 944"; printed below vignette "BRANCH STATE BANK AT CHICAGO./ Ninety days after date, pay to the order of J. A. McClernand/ Treasurer of the illinois & Michigan Canal, ONE DOLLAR, and charge/ the same to the Canal Fund. Lockport, May 1st - 1839./ (? signature) Act. Com. (? signature) Prest." Reverse: endorsed by John Alexander McClernand.