State Courts to Apprehend Privateers Prizes

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Type

Letter Signed

Description

Letter, directs actions re privateers & captured prizes; alludes to foreign hostilities & United States neutrality; discusses judicial system.

Date

08/21/1793

Author

Henry Knox

Recipient

Henry Lee

Sent from

War Department

Repository

Virginia State Library: Archives and Records Branch

Collection

Executive Papers, Office of Governors Letters

Document number

1793082100101

Page start

1

Note

Circular letter to the State Governors.

Notable persons

Henry Lee
Henry Knox
Secretary of War
Governor of the State of North Carolina
President of United States
American citizens
neutrals
executive
President Washington

Notable locations

War Department
Virginia
Delaware
North Carolina
Newbern

Notable items

neutrality
judicial system
privateers
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