Prizes and Neutrality

Item

Type

Letterbook Copy

Title

Prizes and Neutrality

Description

Discusses the issue of prizes.

short description

Ltr, dis issue of prizes

year created

1793

month created

08

day created

20

author

sent from location

War Department

recipient

in image

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
privateers
American citizens
courts
your excellency
Governor New York

notable location

New York
War Department

notable item/thing

interpose
restoration
prize
neutrality
relatively to the restoration
belligerent
declined to
American Citizens
in the courts to interpose
tribunals
preservation

notable idea/issue

neutrality

notable phrase

relatively to the restoration of
instant from
belligerent
out in
of the
declined to
American Citizens
in the courts to interpose, I am
in order to prevent any
tribunals
preservation

document number

1793082000201

page start

1

number of pages

1

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Document instances

In image In source Location in source
[view document] (3 pages) AKA17 (3 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 [unknown] [n/a]