Rare Autograph Auction Featuring Edison's Patent
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Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 13.25 x 8.75, July 9, 1816. President Madison grants "James Sheward of Scioto County, Ohio…the South West quarter of section Seventeen of township Six in the Range Eighteen, of the lands directed to be sold at Chillicothe by the act of Congress, entitled 'An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory north west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river.'" Signed at the conclusion by President Madison, and countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office Josiah Meigs. Lower left corner bears the original General Land Office seal. In fine condition
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