Sold – Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Provide a Passport to Havana Cuba for a Schooner Later Captured During the War of 1812
Document Signed by Jefferson as President and Madison as Secretary of State, signed by them at Washington but issued at New York, June 2, 1806, being a four-language ship’s passport issued to Captain John Williams to take the Schooner Columbia from New York to Havana, Cuba. The ship was carrying cargo of...
Document Signed by Jefferson as President and Madison as Secretary of State, signed by them at Washington but issued at New York, June 2, 1806, being a four-language ship’s passport issued to Captain John Williams to take the Schooner Columbia from New York to Havana, Cuba. The ship was carrying cargo of "beef and lumber."
In 1812, a ship with this name appears on a manifest of vessels captured by the British during the War of 1812. The date of capture is December 18, 1812.
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