[US PRESIDENTS, JAMES BUCHANAN, CIVIL WAR] 

On offer is an original US partially printed & manuscript land grant for Jersey County, Illinois issued by President James Buchanan in 1857. 

The signature is almost certainly a secretarial (based on observed exemplars and the manner in which its signed w/ his secretary signing directly beneath his name) signature but is nonetheless an interesting and authentic period document having possible interest to a local historian or collector. 

Were the Buchanan signature that of the President himself, the price would easily be 7x -10x that offered here. 

The document bears the correct embossed seal and measures 10 in x 15.75 in.                                                                                                        

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