Letters patent to Michael Wigglesworth and Lemuel P. Jenks, 1799-1857.

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Letters patent to Michael Wigglesworth and Lemuel P. Jenks, 1799-1857.

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Letters patent granted to Michael Wigglesworth of Massachusetts for the invention of a new and useful improvement in rope making, Philadelphia, 1799 (2 parchment sheets, tied with cloth ribbon); and letters patent to Lemuel P. Jenks (assigned to George A. Gardner) for an improvement in rock drilling machines, dated July 7, 1857, patent no. 17,765. The patent for Michael Wigglesworth is signed by President John Adams, Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, and Attorney General Charles Lee. The patent for Lemuel P. Jenks is signed by the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Patents (signatures illegible).

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Wigglesworth, Michael, fl. 1799.

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Jenks, Lemuel P.

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