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Note Payable - between two prominent Charlestonian Jews. Signed by both. P. Melvin Cohen (1808-75) MD…. promises to pay Col. F. J. Moses (Franklin Israel Moses, Sr.) the sum of $46.67…. Charleston, 2nd August, 1860. Emdosed on verso by Moses on 12/5/1867. Moses belonged to a Jewish family that had served the state with distinction, and was an able and successful lawyer, a member of the state Senate form 1842 to 1862, commissioner of South Carolina before the North Carolina secession convention, a circuit judge in 1865, and, after the accession of the Republicans to power in 1868, chief justice of the state, in which position he served with great distinction until his death in 1877. Moses (1804-77) was a planter, attorney, politician and judge. He saw military service as captain of cavalry (Claremont Troop). He helped to persuade North Carolina to secede from the union. Cohen (1808-1875)….During the Second Seminole War Cohen served as surgeon to a detachment of troops in Charleston Harbor (1836). In 1838 he became city apothecary. He was a member of the city board of health (1843-49). Cohen was a director of the Bank of the State of South Carolina (1849-55). He was one of the citizens who served as honorary guard at the funeral of John C. Calhoun in 1850.

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