16 August 1808
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Document signed
Title: [Patent for John Templeman's improvement in the chain bridge]
Signed by Jefferson as President. Countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State and Caesar Augustus Rodney as Attorney General. Templeman's written description of his improvement is signed by Thomas Corcoran and John Oto as witnesses. The final page, signed by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, contains a written description of several diagrams of Templeman's invention. Sealed and bound with faded white ribbon.
GLC07328