 I have hereto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed this ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thou.and seven hundred and ninety-nine, and in the Twenty-third year of the Independence of the said "United States"

John Adams, By the President, Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.Bradford built the first stone house on South Main Street in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1788, which, by frontier standards, ranked as a mansion.