AMERICANA AND GENERAL HISTORICAL AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, President. Engraved document signed ("J Q Adams) as President, countersigned by Secretary of State Henry Clay, [Washington, D.C.], 28 November 1825. 1 page, folio, 376 x 278 mm. (15 x 10 in), ON PARCHMENT, engraved, calligraphic text at top: "By the President of the United Sates of America," beneath a large vignette of a fully rigged ship and a lighthouse on a rocky isle, with more ships and a city in background, scalloped edge at top, small loss to upper blank corner, paper and wax seal at lower left, accomplished in manuscript (ink slightly faded). A SHIP'S PASSPORT for the brig Cora Pearson Morrison, "mounted with no guns, navigated with nine men, to pass with her Company, Passengers, Goods and Merchandize without any hinderance, seisure, or molestation, the said Brig appearing by good testimony to belong to one or more of the Citizens of the United States and to him or them only."
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ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, President. Engraved document signed ("J Q Adams) as President, countersigned by Secretary of State Henry Clay, [Washington, D.C.], 28 November 1825. 1 page, folio, 376 x 278 mm. (15 x 10 in), ON PARCHMENT, engraved, calligraphic text at top: "By the President of the United Sates of America," beneath a large vignette of a fully rigged ship and a lighthouse on a rocky isle, with more ships and a city in background, scalloped edge at top, small loss to upper blank corner, paper and wax seal at lower left, accomplished in manuscript (ink slightly faded). A SHIP'S PASSPORT for the brig Cora Pearson Morrison, "mounted with no guns, navigated with nine men, to pass with her Company, Passengers, Goods and Merchandize without any hinderance, seisure, or molestation, the said Brig appearing by good testimony to belong to one or more of the Citizens of the United States and to him or them only."