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Three Washington script signatures on the front page...



Item # 704067

April 09, 1796

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, April 9, 1796  Over half of the front page is taken up with three documents of the federal government with each signed in script type by the President: Go. Washington, and two of them in block type by John Adams.
This was one of just a couple of newspapers which used the script type for presidential signatures, making such issues very displayable when on the front page.
The back page has a notice from the Treasury Dept. seeking bids for constructing a lighthouse on Cape Hatteras, and a beacon house on Shell Castle Island.
Four pages, mild wear at the margins, a few archival mends inside, good condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #359, released for October, 2025

Category: The 1600's and 1700's