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Document 35634

JOHN Q. ADAMS
New President grants land in the new state of Missouri before his documents are printed.
Partly Printed DS: "J.Q. Adams" as sixth U.S. President, 1p, 13½x9¼. Washington, 1825 April 1. On vellum. The son of the second U.S. President grants "one hundred and sixty acres of the Lands directed to be sold at Franklin, Missouri by the Acts of Congress" to John Norton assignee of Robert W. Norris of Howard County. Countersigned: "Geo Graham" as Commissioner of the General Land Office. Just four weeks earlier, on March 4, 1825, John Quincy Adams was sworn in as sixth U.S. President. This document was printed with the name "JAMES MONROE", his predecessor, as President. The election of 1824 ended with no candidate receiving a majority of electoral votes. It was not until February 9, 1825 that the House of Representatives elected Adams President over Andrew Jackson and William Crawford. Documents printed with the new President's name were not yet available, so "JAMES MONROE" was crossed out and "John Quincy Adams" was penned above it (not by Adams). Three and a half years earlier, Missouri entered the Union as the 24th state. Per the Missouri Compromise, it was admitted as a slave state, bringing the total of free and slave states to 12 each. Franklin sits slightly northwest of the midpoint of the state. It is very near to the Missouri River. In one of its last acts on its last day, March 3, 1825, the 18th Congress authorized a federal survey to mark the Santa Fe Trail between western Missouri and Santa Fe in the Spanish colony of New Mexico. This grant of land in Missouri was signed four weeks later. Traders took wagons loaded with manufactured goods on the trail to Santa Fe in exchange for mules, gold, silver and furs. GEORGE GRAHAM had served as Madison and Monroe's Secretary of War ad interim from October 22, 1816 to December 9, 1817. White paper seal, 1¾-inch diameter, affixed with red wax at lower left. Folds, lightly creased and soiled. Signatures are light but completely legible.

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