By the President of the United States of America, suffer the [blank], [blank] master or commander ... to pass with her company, passengers, goods, and merchandize without any hinderance, seisure, or molestation ...
1812
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By the President of the United States of America, suffer the [blank], [blank] master or commander ... to pass with her company, passengers, goods, and merchandize without any hinderance, seisure, or molestation ...
Variant title
Docket title: Brig Shakespeare
Folger copy with blanks filled in reads: By the President of the United States of America, suffer the Brig Shakespeare, Curtis Holmes master or commander ... to pass with her company, passengers, goods, and merchandize without any hinderance, seisure, or molestation ...
Folger copy with blanks filled in reads: By the President of the United States of America, suffer the Brig Shakespeare, Curtis Holmes master or commander ... to pass with her company, passengers, goods, and merchandize without any hinderance, seisure, or molestation ...
Created/published
[Washington, D.C.?] : [s.n.], [between 1812 and 1813?]
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (engraving) ; 38 x 26 cm
Corporate author
United States. President (1809-1817 : Madison)
Associated name
Madison, James, 1751-1836, signer.
Monroe, James, 1758-1831, signer.
Holmes, Curtis, active 1815.
Bulloch, Archibald Stobo, signer.
Monroe, James, 1758-1831, signer.
Holmes, Curtis, active 1815.
Bulloch, Archibald Stobo, signer.
Note
Engraved safe-conduct form for ships.
Printed on vellum, with paper seal attached.
With a large vignette depicting a harbor.
Printed on vellum, with paper seal attached.
With a large vignette depicting a harbor.
Place of creation/publication
United States. -- Washington (D.C.)
Item Details
Call number
Y.d.942
Folger-specific note
With blanks filled in, for the Brig Shakespeare registered in Savannah, Georgia. Signed in manuscript by James Madison, president, Jas. Monroe, Secretary of State; countersigned A.S. Bulloch, coll. [for the Port of Savannah]; dated December 15, 1815. Top of document indentured.
Folger accession
cs956