JEFFERSON, THOMAS and JAMES MADISON, Presidents. Document jointly signed ("Th: Jefferson" as President, "James Madison" as Secretary of State), executed at New Haven, Connecticut, 16 July 1803. One page, oblong folio, 410 x 456mm (16 1/4 x 20 1/4 in), papered seal of the United States and of the state of Connecticut, small repairs along one vertical and two horizontal folds, each affecting a few letters text, attractively matted with two portraits, accomplished in manuscript, countersigned by New Haven collector Sam Bishop, FOUR-LANGUAGE SHIP'S PAPERS (French, Spanish, English Dutch), for the Brig Freeman, captained by Samuel Plant, sailing from New Haven to the West Indies, "laden with Oxen, corn meal, Flour, beef, Pork, lard, Butter & Staves."

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JEFFERSON, THOMAS and JAMES MADISON, Presidents. Document jointly signed ("Th: Jefferson" as President, "James Madison" as Secretary of State), executed at New Haven, Connecticut, 16 July 1803. One page, oblong folio, 410 x 456mm (16 1/4 x 20 1/4 in), papered seal of the United States and of the state of Connecticut, small repairs along one vertical and two horizontal folds, each affecting a few letters text, attractively matted with two portraits, accomplished in manuscript, countersigned by New Haven collector Sam Bishop, FOUR-LANGUAGE SHIP'S PAPERS (French, Spanish, English Dutch), for the Brig Freeman, captained by Samuel Plant, sailing from New Haven to the West Indies, "laden with Oxen, corn meal, Flour, beef, Pork, lard, Butter & Staves."