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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. VAN BUREN, Martin. Document signed ("M. Van Buren") as President, New York, 19 September 1838. 1 page, folio, on parchment, scalloped edge, missing seal . Engraved ship's passport for the brig Kentucky of Baltimore. -- FILLMORE, Millard. Document signed ("Millard Fillmore") as President, countersigned by Daniel Webster, as Sec. of State, New Bedford, 27 October 1852. 1 page, oblong folio. Four language ship's papers for the barque Mercater . -- PIERCE, Franklin. Document signed ("Franklin Pierce") as President, countersigned by Jefferson Davis, Sec. of War, 14 July 1854. 1 page, folio, on parchment. Engraved military commission appointing Silas Crispin as First Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department. -- BUCHANAN, James. Document signed ("James Buchanan") as President, countersigned by Lewis Cass, Sec. of State, New Bedford, 9 October 1860. 1 page, oblong folio . Four-language ship's papers for the barque Triton . -- JOHNSON, Andrew. Document signed ("Andrew Johnson") as President, countersigned by Edwin Stanton, Sec. of War, 3 May 1865. 1 page, folio, on parchment . Engraved military commission appointing Charles H. Crane as a Brevet Colonel. -- [JOHNSON, Andrew] Document signed ("William H. Seward") as Secretary of State, with stamped signature of Andrew Johnson, New Bedford, 3 April 1867. 1 page, oblong folio . Four-language ship's papers for the schooner Petrel . Together six items . (6)