J. Monroe & J.Q. Adams Signed Blank Ship's Passport

Ship's passport, 10.5" x 14.375", signed by two U.S. Presidents as "James Monroe" and "John Quincy Adams" during the Presidential term of the 5th U.S. President James Monroe (1758-1831). At this time John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), the future 6th U.S. President served as the U.S. Secretary of State. Ships papers are blank but signed with a scalloped top edge, cracking along the seal, scattered foxing and expected folds.

In full, "By the President of the United States of America Suffer the ____ master or commander of the burthen of ____ tons or thereabouts mounted with ____ guns navigated with ____ men To Pass with her ____ Company Passengers Goods and Merchandize without any hindrance seisure or molestation the said ____ appearing by good testimony to belong to one or more of the Citizens of the United States and to him or them only. Given under my Hand and the Seal of the United States of America the ____ day of ____ in the year of our Lord ____ thousand ____ hundred and ____ James Monroe By the President John Quincy Adams Secretary of State. State of ____ District of ____. Countersigned by ____. To all Persons whom, these may concern."

This document was signed in Washington, D.C., by President Monroe and Secretary of State Adams, and was to be sent to a United States port to be filled out, signed, and issued from there by the Collector of the Port. The Collector, or an assistant, would fill in the name of the ship and all the required information. John Quincy Adams was James Monroe's only Secretary of State, serving from 1817 until 1825 when he succeeded Madison as President. 

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