Captured Prizes

Item

Type

Letterbook Copy

Title

Captured Prizes

Description

Policy toward Naval prizes.

short description

Ltr, dis policy re Naval prizes

year created

1793

month created

08

day created

19

author

Henry Knox

sent from location

War Department

recipient

George Clinton

sent to location

New York

in collection

Governor George Clinton Papers, Circular Letters and Letterbook of Official Correspondence and Proclamations

in image

AKA16

note

This document is a surviving fragment of the George Clinton Papers, which suffered extensive damage in a 1911 fire in the State Capitol [New York].

notable person/group

George Clinton
Henry Knox
Secretary of War
consul
masters

notable location

New York
War Department
United States
State of New York

notable item/thing

has instructed me to
in case any of the privateers specified
instant should bring or send any prizes
port, of the state of New York, that you will please
to be restored to the persons who were masters or
the being captured
if no such persons should
be a Consul residing in New York of the
prize belonged at the time
policy

document number

1793081900101

page start

1

number of pages

1

transcription

department 19th August
United States, has instructed me to re

al in case any of the Privateers specifiyed

stant should bring, or send any Prizes

But, of the state of New York, that you will please
to be restored to the persons who were masters or
the being captured if no such persons should
should be a Consul residing in New York of the
Prize bellonged at the time [fire damage] then it
great respect

cellency's Most Obedt. Servant

H Knox Sec.

Item sets

Documents

Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (2 pages) AKA16 (2 pages) Collection: Governor George Clinton Papers, Circular Letters and Letterbook of Official Correspondence and Proclamations B:54, p.509

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Henry Knox War Department [n/a]
Recipient George Clinton New York [n/a]