JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President. Engraved document signed ("Th:Jefferson") as President, countersigned by Acting Secretary of State Levi Lincoln, executed in Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts by Joseph Hiller, Collector, 17 July 1801. 1 page, folio, 466 x 300 mm. (18 x 11 3/4 in.), ON PARCHMENT, finely engraved, calligraphic text headed "By the President of the United States," beneath that a large vignette of a fully-rigged ship flying the American flag, and a large light-house on a rocky islet with a port city visible in the background, original papered seal of the United States at lower left, accomplished in manuscript, scalloped edge at top. A SHIP'S PASSPORT for "the ship Henry of Salem, John Barton master...mounted with four guns, navigated with fourteen men," asking that the vessel be allowed safe passage "without any hindrance, seizure or molestation."

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JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President. Engraved document signed ("Th:Jefferson") as President, countersigned by Acting Secretary of State Levi Lincoln, executed in Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts by Joseph Hiller, Collector, 17 July 1801. 1 page, folio, 466 x 300 mm. (18 x 11 3/4 in.), ON PARCHMENT, finely engraved, calligraphic text headed "By the President of the United States," beneath that a large vignette of a fully-rigged ship flying the American flag, and a large light-house on a rocky islet with a port city visible in the background, original papered seal of the United States at lower left, accomplished in manuscript, scalloped edge at top. A SHIP'S PASSPORT for "the ship Henry of Salem, John Barton master...mounted with four guns, navigated with fourteen men," asking that the vessel be allowed safe passage "without any hindrance, seizure or molestation."