Please email with any questions. 8" by 10" off-white paper receipt from Agency Planters" Bank in Oglethorpe, Georgia. Dated August 4th, 1854, sent to Macon Georgia merchants, this accompanied a check for money owed the Macon firm by Joel B Griffin, after the bank took its fees for exchange and collection.

I did not find any information about Joel B Griffin but Findagrave pointed me to a page about Joel Robert Griffin, born c. 1836, SC. Reared in Macon and Oglethorpe, GA. Attended. Georgia Military Institute. Macon lawyer in 1860. Capt. of vol. militia company, the "Macon Guards". 

 Planters Bank of Savannah, also known as Planters Bank of the State of Georgia, dissolved in March 1869 as a result of insolvency brought on by losses incurred during the Civil War and the failure of the State of Georgia to repay wartime loans to the Bank.Paper has some fold lines and some faint soiling.