JOHN QUINCY ADAMS SELLS GOVERNMENT LAND IN INDIANA
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. (1767-1848) 6th President of the United States. Partially-Printed Document Signed, “J. Q. Adams,” as President. One page, oblong folio, vellum. Washington. April 17, 1828. COUNTERSIGNED by Commissioner of the General Land Office “Geo[rge] Graham.” With wax paper-wafer seal of the General Land Office affixed with red wax at lower left. The document reads:
“The United States of America. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings. Whereas Ezikiel Bradbury of Wayne County, has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a certificate of the Register of the Land Office of Cincinnati, Ohio whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Ezikiel Bradbury according to the provision of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April 1820 entitled “An for the sale of Public Lands.” For the North east quarter of Section Twenty eight, in township seventeen of Range thirteen, East of the Second Principal Meridian Line, in the District of lands offered for sale at Cincinnatti, Ohio, being in Indiana, Containing eighty acres. according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General which said tract has been purchased by the said Ezikiel Bradbury…”
As Secretary of State in the Monroe administration, JQA negotiated ’The Adams-Onís Treaty’ (1819) between the United States of America and Spain that ceded Florida to the United States., and also allowed the United States to span the continent, from the East Coast to the West Coast. Just nine years later, during his Presidency the westward expansion of the US was fully underway. This document is a wonderful testament to that era.
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