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MONROE, JAMES. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, granting 160 acres in Illinois to Thomas Nixon. Countersigned by Josiah Meigs

MONROE, JAMES. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, granting 160 acres in Illinois to Thomas Nixon. Countersigned by Josiah Meigs with a paper slip inserted under the seal advertising the sale of a map of Illinois Territory. 10x13 inches; minor foxing and ink stains mostly at edges. Washington, 25 March 1818

  • Notes: The aforementioned map, for sale for one dollar, was Gardiner's Map of the Bounty Lands in Illinois Territory, the scarce first separate mapping of the region.

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