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Monroe, James, 1758-1831 [Patent for John Babcock's improvement in printer's ball stocks]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06239 Author/Creator: Monroe, James, 1758-1831 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Document signed Date: 18 March 1818 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 37 cm, Width: 29 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Monroe as President. Countersigned by John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State and William Wirt as Attorney General. Babcock's description (page two) countersigned by R. J. Ingersoll and William Scott as witnesses. Contains a covered seal and faded white ribbon.

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Babcock, John, 1764-1843
Ingersoll, R. J., fl. 1818
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Scott, William, fl. 1818
Wirt, William, 1772-1834

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