MADISON, JAMES, President. Document signed in full as President, countersigned by Secretary of State Robert Smith, n.p. [Washington, D.C.], 4 January l8l0. One page, folio, ON VELLUM, papered seal of the United States at lower left, small slit at central fold, Madison's signature a bit pale. A finely engraved ship's passport, showing at the top a large vignette of a three-masted ship under sale, and beneath a view of a lighthouse in a harbor with a town in the background, with the top edges scalloped as usual, accomplished in manuscript. Asking free passage for the Brig George Washington, of New York, Francis Hill, Master, carrying a crew of l0 and 2 guns.

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MADISON, JAMES, President. Document signed in full as President, countersigned by Secretary of State Robert Smith, n.p. [Washington, D.C.], 4 January l8l0. One page, folio, ON VELLUM, papered seal of the United States at lower left, small slit at central fold, Madison's signature a bit pale. A finely engraved ship's passport, showing at the top a large vignette of a three-masted ship under sale, and beneath a view of a lighthouse in a harbor with a town in the background, with the top edges scalloped as usual, accomplished in manuscript. Asking free passage for the Brig George Washington, of New York, Francis Hill, Master, carrying a crew of l0 and 2 guns.