Lot 18
JEFFERSON (THOMAS) Ship's passport, signed as President ("Th: Jefferson"), counter-signed by the Secretary of State James Madison ("James Madison"), for Nicholas Moran of New York, master or commander of the schooner Emeline, New York, 8 September 1804
26 June 2019, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,805 inc. premium
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JEFFERSON (THOMAS)
Ship's passport, signed as President ("Th: Jefferson"), counter-signed by the Secretary of State James Madison ("James Madison"), for Nicholas Moran of New York, master or commander of the schooner Emeline, at present lying in the port of New York and bound for Bordeaux, with a cargo of sugar, beeswax, pimento, pepper, coffee and cotton; with the papered presidential seal and that of the counter-signatory, William Popham, Notary Public of the City of New York, on the usual printed form of four columns, in French, Spanish, English and Dutch, laid down, some browning, with wear especially to central portion although both signatures, if a little faded, are intact, framed and glazed, unexamined out of frame, c.520 x 410mm., New York, 8 September 1804
Footnotes
SIGNED BY JEFFERSON AND MADISON -- a schooner of this name was to be captured by Sir Alexander Cochrane of the Royal Navy in 1814.