A NEW INVENTION OF A SORT OR SPECIES OP OIL, PRODUCED OR EXTRACTED FROM CERTAIN VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES NOT HERETOFORE USED IN THIS KINGDOM
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HEZEKIAH
BEERS PIERPONT, of New York, in North America, and late residing in
Surry Street, in the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, on or about the Fifth day of February now last
past, (after reciting therein that I, the said Hezekiah Beers Pierpont, had,
by my Petition, humbly represented unto His Majesty that I had found out,
discovered, and was possessed of "A NEW INVENTION OF A SORT OR SPECIES OP
OIL, PRODUCED OR EXTRACTED FROM CERTAIN VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES NOT HERETOFORE
USED IN THIS KINGDOM," and therefore prayed the King's most Excellent
Majesty to grant to me His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and
benefit of the said Invention and discovery, in manner therein mentioned),
His said Majesty did give and grant unto me, the said Hezekiah Beers
Pierpont, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Hezekiah Beers
Pierpont, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or

page_text: agents, or such others as I, the said Hezekiah Beers Pierpont, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Hezekiah Beers Pierpont, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, should in my or their
discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
whereby it was and is declared that if I, the said Hezekiah Beers Pierpont,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, that then
the said Letters Patent should be void, as in and by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Hezekiah Beers Pierpont, do hereby declare that the following is a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and of the manner in which
the same is to be performed (that is to say) :-
This new sort or species of oil I intend to distinguish by the name of
cotton-seed oil. The vegetable substances from which the said oil may be
produced or extracted are all seeds, commonly known and called by the name
of cotton seeds, comprehending every species of seeds that are grown or
produced from trees, shrubs, and plants, commonly known or called by the
names of cotton trees, shrubs, or plants, and all trees, shrubs, or plants from
which cotton wool or cotton seeds are or can be produced. The means or
mode of producing or extracting the said oil from the seeds afore mentioned
are the same as those which are commonly used for extracting or produceing
the oil from linseed or flax seed.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth
day of May. One thousand seven hundred and ninete nine

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixteenth day of May,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Hezekiah Beers Pierpont came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.