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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 [Patent for Silas Hyde's improvements in the bedstead]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07324 Author/Creator: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Document signed Date: 2 May 1828 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 36.6 cm, Width: 28.8 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Adams as President. Countersigned by Henry Clay as Secretary of State and William Wirt as Attorney General. Docketed and signed by Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents. Sealed and bound with bright red ribbon.

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Hyde, Silas, fl. 1828
Wirt, William, 1772-1834
Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858

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