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JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President. Engraved document signed ("Th: Jefferson") as President, Washington D.C., 3 March l809. 1 page, large folio, ON VELLUM, lacks papered seal, ink a bit pale, an attractively engraved appointment, with American Eagle emblem at top and, at bottom, large engraved vignette of crossed flags, military hardware and paraphenalia, "Engraved by I Draper," appointing Leonard Covington a Lt. Colonel in the Regiment of Light Dragoons, "according to the Rules and Discipline of War" --- MONROE, JAMES AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Presidents. Engraved document signed by both (Monroe as President, Adams as Secretary of State), n.p., 4 September l821, 1 page, folio, ON VELLUM, papered seal of the United States at lower left, accomplished in manuscript, two small stains a ship's passport, attractively engraved calligraphic text with large vignettes of a fully-rigged sailing ship and a harbor with lighthouse, a ship's passport, with the usual scalloped edge at the top, for the