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| [POR] John Hancock Circular Letter Signed Protest: No Taxation Without Representation! x: [Declaration Signer] cFT
Circular Letter Signed “John Hancock,” also signed “Joseph Jackson,” “John Ruddock,” “John Rowe,” and “Samuel Pemberton” as Selectmen of Boston, to the Selectmen of Charlestown, one page; Boston, September 14, 1768.
A fantastic document from the beginning of America’s struggle for independence
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| Political Broadside Supporting John Hancock’s Campaign for Governor of Massachusetts [Declaration Signer]
Signed in type by “Hosea”. One page. Circa 1787. Professionally conservation treated.
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| John Adams Autograph Letter Signed Commenting on Delays in the Peace Negotiations x: [American President] [Declaration Signer]
Autograph letter signed “John Adams,” to Alexander Cerisier, two pages with integral address leaf; Paris, France, May 13, 1783.
A very fine letter written by Adams as peace negotiator and minister, a pivotal role that was perhaps even more important than Adams’ presidency.
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| John Hancock’s Signed Journals of Congress – Including Announcement of Cornwallis’ Surrender x: [Declaration Signer] [Military]
"Journals of Congress, and of the United States in Congress Assembled, for the year 1781, Vol. VII” By Order of Congress. David C. Claypoole: Philadelphia, 1781[2]. Original paper boards. This remarkable piece of history has been signed twice by Hancock with his usual flourish, first on the front cover and then at top of the front endpaper.
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| Thomas Jefferson Circular Letter Signed regarding the embargo of 1808 against British commerce x: [American President] [Declaration Signer]
“...all regard to the rights of others have been thrown aside, the belligerant powers have beset the highway of commercial intercourse with edicts which, taken together, expose our commerce and mariners... We have wished war with neither [England or France].”
Circular Letter Signed “Th: Jefferson” to Thomas Burnes and the inhabitants of the town of Gilmantown, New Hampshire, three pages; September 23, 1808, with address leaf free franked “Th: Jefferson Pr. U.S.”
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| Samuel Huntington Free Frank [Declaration Signer]
Free frank signed “Samuel Huntington” to Colonel Ebenezer Huntington at West Point.
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| Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed regarding transmitting Acts of the First Congress of the United States- submitted to John Hancock x: [American President] [Declaration Signer] (o:) c-Fraunces Tavern Presidential Exhibit
Letter signed “Th: Jefferson” as Secretary of State, to the Governor of Massachusetts [John Hancock], one page; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1791.
Circular letter from Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson sending copies of the legislation passed during the third session of the first Congress of the United States.
19.3 x 24.1 cm.
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| ww: Thomas Jefferson as President and James Madison Signed Patent for Improvement in Power Obtained by the Rising and Falling of the Tide to Give Motion to All Kinds of Machinery [American President] [Declaration Signer] [Science & Technology]
Document signed "Th: Jefferson" as President and "James Madison" as Secretary of State, and "Levi Lincoln" as Attorney General to John Staples, Jr.; Washington, D.C., March 18, 1803, one page, vellum, with white paper presidential seal. Signed patent for an improvement in hydro-power obtained by the rising and falling of the tide to give motion to all kinds of machinery. Before the widespread use of steam engines, water was the primary power supply for American industry.
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| Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed regarding three Congressional Acts x: [American President] [Declaration Signer] [BOTD]
Letter signed “Th: Jefferson”, as Secretary of State, to the President of Pennsylvania, one page; New York, July 6, 1790. 7.75 x 9.25 in. Splendid specimen bearing a choice signature. Very fine condition despite slight discoloration at right margin. Professionally conservation treated.
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| Richard Henry Lee. Signed Book, Travels Through Cyprus, Syria and Palestine [Declaration Signer]
A travel book, eighteenth century-style. Bound in a new protective leather case and translated from Italian. Vol. III, London, 1757. By Abbe Mariti.
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| John Hancock Signed Psalm and Hymn Book x: (o:) [Declaration Signer] [Religion]
Hancock’s psalm-book inscribed and signed “John Hancock - thou shalt not steal saith the Lord” on the upper flyleaf. N. Brady and N. Tate, A New Version of The Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches. Boston: Printed by J. Kneeland and S. Adams, for Wharton and Bowes, 1765. With “Appendix, Containing a Number of Hymns Taken Chiefly from Dr. Watts Collection”, Boston: Printed by Kneeland and Adams for the Company of Stationers, 1765. Two parts, bound in one volume. 360 pages with 2 pagination series numbered 1-276 and 1 - 84 respectively. 6 x 3 3/8 in.
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| Benjamin Franklin regarding proposals for the humane conduct of war x: (o:) [Declaration Signer] [BOTD]
“I go with you as far as you go, in Proposals for diminishing the Occasions & Mischiefs of War, & perhaps a little farther.—By the Original Law of Nations, War & Extirpation was the Punishment of Injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted Slavery instead of Death. A farther Step was, the Exchange of Prisoners instead of Slavery…”
Letter Press Copy of Autograph Letter Signed “B. Franklin” as American Peace Commissioner, to Benjamin Vaughan, Passy, France, July 10, 1782; three pages, folio, on absorbent paper watermarked “J Watt & Co Patent Copying.”
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| Thomas Jefferson Lithograph. Framed [American President] [Declaration Signer]
19th century lithograph by William Smith.
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| William Heath Letter Signed telling John Hancock of victory at Cowpens and recipient’s docket in John Hancock’s hand [Declaration Signer] [New Listing]
Letter signed, “W Heath,” as Major General to Massachusetts Governor John Hancock. 2 pages, West Point, NY., February 13, 1781. With address panel in Heath’s hand and recipient’s docket in Hancock’s hand.
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| Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress: "An Act To Establish An Uniform Rule Of Naturalization,” A Founding Document Of The Federal Government [American President] [Declaration Signer] [TP] (o:) [BOTD]
Document signed “Th: Jefferson” as Secretary of State, signed in type by George Washington as President, John Adams as Vice President, and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg as Speaker of the House of Representatives, one page; New York, March 26, 1790.
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| Thomas Jefferson Document Signed: "Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States Within the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" [American President] [Declaration Signer]
Signed “Thomas Jefferson”, as Secretary of State, and signed in type by George Washington, as President. New York: Francis and John Swain, June 23, 1790. This act establishes Rhode Island as one federal court district, with the set of the court alternating between Providence and New Port.
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| John Adams Autograph Letter Signed [American President] [Declaration Signer] [TP] (o:) c-Fraunces Tavern Presidential Exhibit
Autograph letter signed John Adams to Joseph Lyman, Re: "The Independance of the Nation", War with England, and Alexander Hamilton’s "Treachery"; April 20, 1809, Quincy. 3 pages.
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| John Adams Manuscript Letter Signed Re: Its Resolution Praising Troops that Put Down Anti-Tax Fries Rebellion [American President] [Declaration Signer]
Manuscript Letter, Signed “John Adams” as President, to the U.S. Senate. Washington. Dec. 10, 1799. 1 pg.
“The praise of the Senate so judiciously conferred on the promptitude and zeal of the troops called to suppress the insurrection, as it falls from so high authority, must make a deep impression, both as a terror to the disobedient and an encouragement of such as do well.”
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| Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed [American President] [Declaration Signer] c-Fraunces Tavern Presidential Exhibit
Thomas Jefferson, Autographed Letter Signed, to a Mr. Laval, bookseller, Monticello, April 11, 1819, one page, quarto. Bibliophile, Places Order for His Library at Monticello.
"Books as well as other things have limits to their value beyond which we would not go."
| | | | | z:: Signed by Thomas Jefferson: Raising Tariffs and Promoting National Manufactures. [American President] [Declaration Signer] [Finance]
[United States Laws. First Congress]: Congress of the United States...an act to explain and amend an act, intitled "An act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States." [caption title]. [Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, 1791]. Broadside, w33304, dlj 373.
A very rare printing of an early United States Law providing for the funding of the national debt, signed in manuscript by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. The document, which also carries the printed signatures of President George Washington, Vice President John Adams, and House Speaker Frederick Muhlenberg, was approved March 2, 1791.
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