JEFFERSON, THOMAS, and JAMES MADISON, Presidents. Partly printed document signed ("Th Jefferson") as President and ("James Madison") as Secretary of State, executed by David Gelston, Collector of the Port of New York, 18 November 1805. 1 page, folio, 380 x 262 mm. (15 x 10 3/8 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, large papered seal, usual scalloped top edge, matted with two engraved portraits, glazed and attractively framed. An engraved document with a large vignette of a fully-rigged sailing ship at top and beneath, a harbor scene of boats, lighthouse and church steeples (signed in the plate by the engraver, E. Savage), accomplished in manuscript. SHIP'S PASSPORT for the Schooner Lion of New York, with a crew of 8, which vessel should be allowed passage "without any hindrance, seizure or molestation." Fine.

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JEFFERSON, THOMAS, and JAMES MADISON, Presidents. Partly printed document signed ("Th Jefferson") as President and ("James Madison") as Secretary of State, executed by David Gelston, Collector of the Port of New York, 18 November 1805. 1 page, folio, 380 x 262 mm. (15 x 10 3/8 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, large papered seal, usual scalloped top edge, matted with two engraved portraits, glazed and attractively framed. An engraved document with a large vignette of a fully-rigged sailing ship at top and beneath, a harbor scene of boats, lighthouse and church steeples (signed in the plate by the engraver, E. Savage), accomplished in manuscript. SHIP'S PASSPORT for the Schooner Lion of New York, with a crew of 8, which vessel should be allowed passage "without any hindrance, seizure or molestation." Fine.