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JEFFERSON, THOMAS

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JEFFERSON, THOMAS
(1743 - 1826) Third President of the United States, author and signer of the Declaration of Independence, ceased the importation of slaves to America. Scarce and quite ironic war-date partly-printed D.S. "Th: Jefferson" as Governor of Virginia, 1p. legal folio, Williamsburg, Nov. 10, 1779 granting land in present-day Kentucky (claimed by Virginia) to James Southall, assigned of John Hickman, "...in consideration of military service performed by John Hickman in the late war between Great Britain and France, according to the terms of the King of Great Britain's Proclamation of 1763...one thousand acres lying and being in the County of Kentucky on the North side of Kentucky River a branch of the Ohio...". Ironically, one of the causes of the American Revolution often cited by historians was the prohibition on White settlement beyond the Appalachians mandated by the Proclamation of 1763! The Proclamation of 1763 also ordered the colonies to provide for grants of land within their territories to officers soldiers who fought in the French and Indian War. Jefferson goes further and subverts the proclamation by granting land to a French and Indian War veteran well beyond the line mandated by the Proclamation of 1763! Light soiling, a couple of smudges, Jefferson's signature a bit light, but still clearly legible, horizontal folds repaired on verso, silked on verso, otherwise very good condition.