Actions Regarding Privateers & Captured Prizes
Item
Type
Letter, Type Undetermined
Title
Actions Regarding Privateers & Captured Prizes
Description
Letter, directs actions re privateers & captured prizes; alludes to foreign hostilities & United States neutrality; discusses judicial system.
short description
Ltr, dir actions re privateers & prizes
year created
1793
month created
08
day created
21
author
sent from location
War Department
recipient
sent to location
Newbern
in collection
in image
note
Address leaf only. We suspect that this letter is a circular letter to the Governors of the States, of which other copies are available. See Knox to Lee, 08/21/1793 and Knox to Clayton, 08/21/1793.
content note
Content entries for this address leaf are based on the assumption that this document covers a version of the circular letter to the State Governors of this date.
notable person/group
Richard Dobbs Spaight
Henry Knox
notable location
Newbern
War Department
United States
Delaware
North Carolina
Newbern
notable item/thing
directed by the president to inform you that he wishes their cases to be brought before the judicial tribunals
take into consideration any representation which may be made to him
cause such prizes to be restored to the persons who were masters or owners at the time of their being captured
persons should be found
consul
power to which the prize belonged at the time of its capture
delivered to him or to his orders
interposition of the Executive is rendered necessary by our courts having hitherto declined to take cognizance of such cases
instance of American citizens and other neutrals there has yet appeared no objection in the courts to interpose
registered
President of the United States has instructed me to request your excellency
privateers specified in my letter
prizes belonging to any of the belligerent parties into any harbour or port
War Department
free
Governor of the State of North Carolina
document number
1793082100201
page start
1
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Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (1 pages) | BKA01 (1 pages) | Collection: General Collection | VK59 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Henry Knox | War Department | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Richard Dobbs Spaight | Newbern | [n/a] |