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Title:  United States patent certificate [manuscript] : granted to Samuel Hopkins, 1790 July 31-Aug. 4. Author/creator:  United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) Phys. desc:  1 item (2 p.) : vellum ; 41.5 x 46.5 cm. Summary:  Handwritten patent certificate (letters patent), signed by George Washington, President, U.S., at the City of New York. Granted to Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia (Pa.), for an apparatus and process for leaching wood ashes to make potash and pearl ash [potassium carbonate]. Signed also by Edmund Randolph, attorney general. Seal is attached. Endorsed on verso by Thomas Jefferson, as delivered Aug. 4, 1790. This is believed to be the first patent certificate granted by the United States Government. Note:  Ink is flaking and fading. Provenance:  Purchased from the Gunther estate for 2000 dollars, according to a list dated April 28, 1920, in the archives of Chicago Historical Society. A copy of this item and other related information is filed with the collection in an information folder. Part:  Forms part of the George Washington papers (Chicago History Museum). Publication:  Published in: We the people: voices and images of the new nation, by Alfred F. Young and Terry J. Fife, with Mary E. Janzen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993, p. 140. Article about significance of potash: "The First U.S. Patent," by Henry M. Paynter, in Invention & Technology (Fall 1990), p. 18-22. Article about identity of Samuel Hopkins: "the First U.S. Patentee, Potash and a Puzzle," by Louise E. Koler, in News and Notes, Vermont Historical Society (v. 7, no. 1: Sept. 1955), 4 p. Exhibited:  Exhibited in: "We the People, Creating a New Nation," Chicago Historical Society, beginning Sept. 12, 1987. Subj topic:  Potash industry and trade -- United States. Patents -- United States Form/genre:  Patents (licenses). Co-creator:  Hopkins, Samuel, 1765-1840, recipient. rcp Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813 Washington, George, 1732-1799 Part of:  Washington, George, 1732-1799. George Washington papers (Chicago History Museum) Copy/Holding information Call No. Copy Collection Status   MSS Alpha1 W copy Manuscripts-Use pink callslip Checked In MSS EXP Patents information Manuscripts-Use pink callslip Checked In MSS OSV W original Manuscripts-Use pink callslip Checked In Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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