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- GLC#
- GLC05636.12-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- November 1839
- Title
- [Testimonies regarding the capture of the Amistad]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 30.2 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Created at Connecticut District Court in November 1839. At the top, states: "Schooner Amistad plea to jurisdictions & matter of it- Baldwin says most extraordinary objections & c Circuit Court said only that so long as the matter was pending before the District Ct that Court should not dismiss & c..." Relates events that took place 26 August 1839, when Captains Henry Green and Peletiah Fordham, [Fithy?], Sherman, Conklin met the Africans from the Amistad on the shore near Culloden Point, New York. Green would later enter a salvage claim for the ship and its contents. A faint pencil note on the first page states "plea alleges 2 grounds of jurisdiction 1. not property & c. 2. signed within N york district & on shore." On last page, contains statements from General Isham and W. F. Brainard (lawyers for the Connecticut residents' who had claimed salvage) and C. F. [Lister?].
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