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SHIP'S PASSPORT SIGNED BY JAMES MADISON AND JAMES MONROE.
MADISON, JAMES; and JAMES MONROE.
Document Signed ("James Madison") as President, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, 1 p, folio, Baltimore, December 4, 1812, being a four-language ship's papers for the brig Little Arnold,

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SHIP'S PASSPORT SIGNED BY JAMES MADISON AND JAMES MONROE.

MADISON, JAMES; and JAMES MONROE. Document Signed ("James Madison") as President, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, 1 p, folio, Baltimore, December 4, 1812, being a four-language ship's papers for the brig Little Arnold, signed by James Monroe ("James Monroe") as Secretary of State, with two red wax-white wafer seals, light creasing and toning.

This four language ship's papers for the brig Little Arnold was issued just days before the ship, bound for Bordeaux and carrying codfish, cotton, and logwood, was captured by the 18-gun Cruizer class brig sloop, the HMS Sophie, a trophy of the British economic war against American trade.

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