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- GLC#
- GLC02108
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- September 16, 1797
- Author/Creator
- Bradford, William, 1729-1808
- Title
- [Instrument of protest]
- Place Written
- Bahama Islands, New Providence
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 33 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Signed by Bradford as notary public. James Bowers, Master of the Brigantine Flora from New York, had been seized and all his goods confiscated by a Royal Navy Schooner of War, the George and Ophelia. The protest notes that "perfect Peace and Amity existed between Great Britain and the... United States" at that time.
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