The French Assault on American Shipping, 1793-1813 by Greg H. Williams

Partially-printed document reads in part, ”…sailing under the auspices of the United States of America…no subjects of present belligerent powers have any part or portion therein…” Cargo is listed as, ”…food, including beef, pork, shad, butter, oil, cheese, flour, crackers, onions, and apples…” The schooner ”Nancy” was listed as having filed an insurance claim, as cited in Greg H. and France to the brink of war, during which time United States merchant ships came under threat from French privateers.

Document dated 10 August 1798 concerns the schooner ”Nancy” during the time of the ”XYZ Affair,” a period of tension that brought the U.S. John Adams Four-Language Ship’s Papers Signed as President - From The Privateer-Raided Schooner ”Nancy” at the Height of French-American Tensionsįascinating John Adams document signed as President. īelow is a John Adams four language ship’s paper signed item we have sold in the past: Send a description and images of your item to us at. Sell Your John Adams Four Language Ship’s Paper SignedĬonsign your item at Nate D. Greg H.FREE APPRAISAL. To buy, auction, sell or consign your John Adams four language ship’s paper signed that is for sale, please email your description and photos to of Nate D. The French assault on American shipping, 1793-1813 : a history and comprehensive record of merchant marine losses. Who wrote the letter to his father on December 4, 1800, is unknown.įederal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser p3 The Favorite, in the previous year, had his sloop, the Cornelia,Ĭaptured by the French, who condemned the vessel and cargo and sold that sloop Bartholomew’s, in hopes that I shall get a vessel there bound to some part of America.” Here are several vessels from northern ports, and one from New Haven, none of them will give me a passage. Here I am destitute of a ship, money, or friends, and a stranger in a foreign land. They took from me everything I had, both my venture and clothing, and scarcely left me a shirt to my back. was taken by a French privateer, and carried into Guadaloupe, put into prison, and have just arrived here in a cartel. I sailed from New York about the 12th of October, in the ship Favorite, Capt. Kitts at the time, wrote “Honored Father – I embrace this opportunity to convey you a line, and inform you of my situation.

On December 4, 1800, a young man wrote a letter to his father in Guilford. 66, by the French privateer schooner the Patriot, and ordered to St. Bound for Cape Francis, the ship, commanded by Captain Charles Barnard, was captured on October 4, 1800, in lat. Warren, all of New York, departed in 1800 with cargo owned by Frederic de Peyster and John Slidell. The ship named the Favorite, owned by Robert Johnston & Co, James Brown, and Richard and Abraham S.

The French Assault on American Shipping, 1793-1813 by Greg H. Williams