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- GLC#
- GLC02010
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 8 August 1807
- Author/Creator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Title
- [Land grant for Toppan Webster].
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 22 cm, Width: 40 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison. Grants 100 acres to Webster, an assignee of Samuel Jess, on the basis of the act of Congress appropriating land for former soldiers and for the society of the United Brethren. The act had been approved by the fourth Congress in June 1796. Signed as President of the United States.
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