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| This patent's drawing and specification were lost in the 1836 fire at the Patent Office.From the 1811-06-29 Vincennes (Indiana) Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 52, page 2. "DETECT SWINDLING. Whereas we Kelsey and Smith, as agents for Henry Parmele, have sold, bargained & conveyed, until a certain Wharton Rector, of Kaskaskia, Illinois territory, the right to make, vent and use a Mortising Machine, in the territories of Upper Louisiana, Indiana and Illinois, for which machine the said Henry Parmele, of the state of Connecticut, has obtained a patent from the United States—in payment for which the said Wharton Rector, assigned to the said Kelsey & Smith, a certain note or obligation of a certain John A. Shaefer, of the city of New-York, for two thousand dollars: in part pay of which note, over and above the said purchase right (which was one thousand dollars) the said Kelsey and Smith, advance the said W. Rector, five hundred dollars, and gave their obligations for five hundred more, when the whole of the said note should be collected: and whereas, by advices from the city of Philadelphia, lately received in this town, we have been informed that the said Wharton Rector and the said John A. Shaefer, had entered into a combination, by an interchange of notes or obligations to defraud the good people of the United States, the said Shaefer undertaking to negociate the said Rector's notes to the eastward, & the said Rector undertaking to negociate the said Shaefer's notes in the western country—and whereas, it appears from the same advices, that the said John A. Shaefer, had been confined in the state prison, in the city of New York, for felony before the negociation between him and the said Wharton Rector,—and it further appears from the same advises, that since the negociation between the said Shaefer and the said Rector, the said John A. Shaefer, had absconded from the city of Philadelphia, after having negociated the said Rector's notes—and whereas, one of the said Shaefer's notes, given as aforesaid to the said Rector, has been forwarded to the city of Philadelphia, where they were contracted for acceptance, and been protested for non-acceptance, the said Shaefer not being to be found.—This is therefore to forewarn all persons from receiving the said patent right, as aforesaid, from the said Rector, as we are determined to take all legal steps to set aside the said contract.—Given under our hands, at Cincinnati, this 13th day of March, 1811. Kelsey & Smith." |
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