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Document 3950
JAMES MADISON and ROBERT SMITH. Partly
Printed DS: "James Madison" as President and "R Smith"
as Secretary of State, 1p, 15½x9. On vellum. Washington, 1811 January
1. Grant of a quarter lot of land to "John Vance, assignee of Nicholas
Coleman...directed to be sold at Cincinnati by the act of Congress, entitled 'An
act providing for the sale of the Lands of the United States in the Territory
north west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river,' and of the acts
amendatory of the same...." The land was obtained by the United States as a
result of the 1794 Treaty of Greenville which "guaranteed that the American
settlement in Northwest Territory was secure from Indian attack as far west as a
line that met the Ohio River at a point opposite the mouth of the Kentucky
river". The act was passed two years later. ROBERT SMITH served as
Madison's Secretary of State from 1809-1811. Folds do not touch signatures. Glue
stains on verso show through to upper right of text. Lightly creased. Fine
signatures with fine 3-inch diameter seal.
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