GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES, New York, Aug. 18, 1790

• American ships Columbia Rediviva & Lady Washington
• President George Washington - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson

Page 2 includes an Act of Congress, headed with an engraving of a heraldic eagle, "...to enable the officers & soldiers of the Virginia line on Continental Establishment to obtain titles to certain lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the little Miami and Sciota." The Act of Congress is signed in type by the President: George Washington, as well as by John Adams & Thomas Jefferson.
Page 3 has a report titled: "The Columbia" which notes: "It is with real pleasure we announce the safe arrival...of the ship Columbia, Capt. Gray, from a voyage of adventure to the North West Coast of America..." with further details.
The Columbia, along with the Lady Washington, was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe, as mentioned in the report. Another item concerning the Columbia is in the adjoining column.
The back page has a report from the "Treasury Department" signed in type Alexander Hamilton.
Four pages, great condition.

Background: The convergence of these events in a single August 1790 issue of the Gazette of the United States signifies the vibrant, multi-front awakening of a young republic transitioning from a fragile confederation into a cohesive global power. Domestically, the land bounty act signed by Washington, Adams, and Jefferson represents the federal government’s crucial effort to fulfill its promises to Revolutionary War veterans, tying their personal fortunes to the physical expansion and settlement of the Northwest Territory. This expansion was logistically secured by Alexander Hamilton’s Treasury Department, whose military contract bids illustrated the nascent federal bureaucracy aggressively asserting its financial and defense infrastructure over a volatile frontier. Simultaneously, the historic global circumnavigation of the Columbia announced to the world that the United States was no longer merely a collection of former colonies, but an ambitious maritime economic force capable of breaking European trade monopolies in the Pacific Northwest and China. Together, these reports capture the exact moment the United States successfully projected its sovereign authority inward across the American continent and outward across the global stage.