[POLITICS] -- [AUTOGRAPHS]. Large collection of signatures from early 19th-cent. political figures.

Approx. 39 autographs, including letters signed, autograph letters signed, and documents signed, highlighted by DEARBORN, Henry (1751-1829), partly printed document signed ("H Dearborn") as Collector of the Port of Boston. Boston, 27 April 1811. 2pp, approx. 13 x 8 in. (toning, creasing at folds, chipping). A "Coaster's Manifest" of cargo which includes oil, lemons, hemp, coffee, and nails. Countersigned by LOVELL, James (1737-1814) as Naval Officer. Dearborn was a Revolutionary War general, U.S. Congressman, and Secretary of War under Jefferson. Lovell participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill, was captured by the British, was a Massachusetts delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and a Signer of the Articles of Confederation.

Additional signatures include: U.S. Senator Thaddeus BETTS, U.S. Senator David TURPIE, U.S. Representative Churchill C. Cambrelang, U.S. Senator Elijah H. MILLS, U.S. Representative Samuel BRECK, U.S. Representative Lyman LAW, Revolutionary patriot and and Massachusetts politician and clerk Samuel FREEMAN, Secretary of the Treasury Albert GALLATIN, politician Gideon GRANGER, U.S. Senator W.S. ARCHER, U.S. Senator Dwight FOSTER, North Carolina politician Weldon N. EDWARDS, U.S. Representative Alexander SMYTH, U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Franklin BUTLER, founder of the American Colonization Society Charles MARSH, U.S. Senator Samuel SOUTHARD, U.S. Senator William MARCY, politician and jurist William TILGHMAN, Colonel Edmund KIRBY, U.S. Representative John SERGEANT, U.S. Senator Prentiss MELLEN, Massachusetts public official and silversmith Samuel BARTLETT, Judge William CRANCH, and more.

[With:] Print ephemera comprising: two issues of the New-England Palladium (13 October 1807 and 5 January 1808). -- "Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Sundry Statements Relative to the Mint of the United States, Prepared by the Officers thereof." 8 January 1800. Philadelphia: Printed by Way & Groff. -- "Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Certain Documents, Pursuant to a Resolution of the Senate of the Thirteenth June." 16 June 1809. Washington City: Printed by Roger C. Weightman. -- A message from C.A. Rodney to the President of the United States. 15 July 1808.

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[POLITICS] -- [AUTOGRAPHS]. Large collection of signatures from early 19th-cent. political figures.

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