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To James Madison from James Monroe, 27 April 1816

From James Monroe

Department of State April 27. 1816.

The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the Resolution of the House of Representatives, requesting the President to cause to be laid before the House, a statement of the number of Impressed American Seamen confined in Dartmoor Prison, the number surrendered, given up, or taken from on board British Vessels, Captured during the late war; together with their places of residence respectfully; has the honor to submit to the President, in the papers marked A B & C, all the information which he has, as yet, been able to obtain relative to the object stated in the resolution.1

The paper A contains a list of such impressed seamen as were transferred from British Ships of War to Dartmoor and other prisons in England.2

B contains the names of those who were transferred in like manner to Prisons in the West Indies and NovaScotia.3

C, the names of those who were discharged in England from British Ships of War since the peace.4

Jas. Monroe

RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1). JM forwarded the report to the House of Representatives on 29 Apr. 1816 (ibid.). For enclosures (177 pp.; printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 4:57–95), see nn. 2–4.

1. A motion to this effect, proposed by Albion K. Parris of Massachusetts, had been approved on 28 Feb. 1816 (Annals of Congress, description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends 14th Cong., 1st sess., 1089–90).

2. Enclosure marked A consists of 1,421 names (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 4:57–86).

3. Enclosure marked B consists of 158 names (ibid., 87–90).

4. Enclosure marked C consists of 219 names (ibid., 91–95).

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    To James Madison from James Monroe, 27 April 1816
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    “To James Madison from James Monroe, 27 April 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0431. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 431–432.]

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