¶ From David Gelston. Letter not found. Post–24 June 1806. Described in Daniel Brent to Simeon Theus, 3 Sept. 1806, addressed to Theus at Charleston, South Carolina, as “lately received from the Collector of the Customs at Newyork” and forwarding “a Protest of the Captain of the Brig Belisarius of that Port,” which stated that on 19 Nov. 1805 the British had impressed a seaman named John Taylor, of South Carolina, from the brig (DNA: RG 59, Correspondence with Collectors of Customs regarding Impressed Seamen, box 12). The Belisarius arrived in New York on 24 June 1806 (New-York Commercial Advertiser, 24 June 1806).