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JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Engraved document signed, ("Th:Jefferson") as President, countersigned by Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith, Washington, 21 November 1805.
One page, 438 x 325mm (sight), on parchment engraved text, large vignette at top of an American eagle amid clouds and sunbeams and lightning with heading "President of the United States of America" at bottom a complex arrangement of weaponry, battle flags, and other military paraphernalia, imprint along bottom edge: "Written B. S. Lewis Senr." and "Designed & engraved by Akin & Harrison Junr.," accomplished in manuscript, large papered Great seal of the U.S. at lower center, (dampstains and soiling, else fine overall).
Thomas Jefferson appoints Revenue Cutter commander Hugh Campbell as a Navy Captain. A belated appointment of Hugh Campbell, a veteran commander of the USS Eagle a 14-gun schooner, which, in 1799, took a great many prizes (and recovering several captured American ships as well) during the Quasi-War with France. For his distinct wartime record, the Navy recommended his promotion in October 1800 – although Jefferson did not sign the commission until 1805.
One page, 438 x 325mm (sight), on parchment engraved text, large vignette at top of an American eagle amid clouds and sunbeams and lightning with heading "President of the United States of America" at bottom a complex arrangement of weaponry, battle flags, and other military paraphernalia, imprint along bottom edge: "Written B. S. Lewis Senr." and "Designed & engraved by Akin & Harrison Junr.," accomplished in manuscript, large papered Great seal of the U.S. at lower center, (dampstains and soiling, else fine overall).
Thomas Jefferson appoints Revenue Cutter commander Hugh Campbell as a Navy Captain. A belated appointment of Hugh Campbell, a veteran commander of the USS Eagle a 14-gun schooner, which, in 1799, took a great many prizes (and recovering several captured American ships as well) during the Quasi-War with France. For his distinct wartime record, the Navy recommended his promotion in October 1800 – although Jefferson did not sign the commission until 1805.