JOHN QUINCY ADAMS SIGNS A PATENT DOCUMENT FOR A METALLURGIST

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1767-1848).  Adams was the Sixth President from 1825 to 1829.  He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1830, and remained there for the remainder of this life.

HENRY CLAY (1777-1852).  Clay served as a Congressman, Senator and John Quincy Adams’s Secretary of State.  “The Great Compromiser” unsuccessfully ran for the President three times and is probably best known for the Compromise of 1850 that postponed the onset of the Civil War.

DS. 6pg. 11” x 14 ½”. March 27, 1827. Washington.  A partly printed patent document signed “John Quincy Adams” as President, “H Clay” as Secretary of State and “Wm Wirt” as Attorney General.  The government acknowledged that Benjamin Green of Hartford, Vermont “invented a new and useful improvement in the Machine for grinding & polishing hard & soft metallic Substances”.  There are several manuscript pages of description of the improvement.  The vellum document has one horizontal fold and two vertical ones, a large eagle seal and several pink ribbons that holds the document together.  The condition is very good with dark autographs.