Jefferson, Thomas, and James Madison: Bache, Catherine Wistar:

$15,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

[PARTIALLY PRINTED DOCUMENT SIGNED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND COUNTERSIGNED BY JAMES MADISON AS SECRETARY OF STATE, APPOINTING WILLIAM FRANKLIN BACHE, BENJAMIN ... A small archive of two items relating to Dr. William Franklin Bache's efforts to secure a government appointment, consisting of a partially printed document, signed by both Thomas Jefferson as president and James Madison as secretary of state, accomplished in a clerical hand, and dated November 22, 1804, appointing Bache surveyor of the port of Philadelpphia and a letter from Catherine Wistar Bache to her brother, Caspar Wistar, dated October 31, [1803], requesting that he write to President Jefferson on her husband's behalf. A Philadelphia physician, William Franklin Bache (1773–1820) was the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin Bache, and a friend of Thomas Jefferson, who had known Bache since he was a boy. Bache married Catherine Wistar Bache in 1797. That same year, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. (Jefferson was then the society's president and Bache's brother-in-law and fellow Philadelphia physician Caspar Wistar its vice president.) In 1799, following one of a series of yellow fever outbreaks that plagued Philadelphia in the 1790s and which had claimed the life of William's brother Richard, and at the urging of Thomas Jefferson, Bache and his wife moved to Albemarle County, Virginia. After several months' stay at Monticello,

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