signed
1797 · Boston, Massachusetts
by LOVELL, James, Naval Officer; Benjamin Weld, Samuel Cooper, and Charles Théodore Mozard
Boston, Massachusetts, 1797. Very Good. Letterpress document printed and completed in manuscript on both sides (18½” x 15”). Full title: *Passport and Roll of Equipage, Agreeably to the 25th and 27th Article of the Treaty between France and the United States, made the 6th of February, 1778*. Dated 22 September 1797. Signed by James Lovell, former delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1782, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Lovell was appointed naval officer of the port of Boston and Charlestown from 1789 until his death in 1814. Additionally signed by Benjamin Weld, Collector of Customs at Boston, and Samuel (truncated)