?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
BUILDING NAVY FOR QUASI-WAR AGAINST FRANCE ADAMS, JOHN. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, appointing Daniel Todd Patterson Midshipman in the Navy. Countersigned by Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert. 8 1/4x11 1/4 inches; sides trimmed (without loss to text), folds, faint scattered foxing, paper seal intact. Washington, 11 July 1799
