To James Madison from DeWitt Clinton, 5 May 1806 (Abstract)
From DeWitt Clinton, 5 May 1806 (Abstract)
§ From DeWitt Clinton. 5 May 1806, New York. “I enclose you affidavits to establish the unjust detention of Frederick Moser a Citizen of this State on board of the British Ship of War Diadem. As the Witnesses are known to me to be of good reputation, I think there can be no doubt of the truth of their representations.”1
Letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosures (NNC: DeWitt Clinton Papers). Letterbook copy 2 pp.
1. The enclosures are copies (2 pp.) of (1) Thomas Van Pelt’s 5 May 1806 deposition that in October 1804 he saw Frederick Moser on the British warship Diadem, Sir James Samaurez, commander, at Guernsey, and Moser informed Van Pelt that he was an American citizen who had been impressed; and (2) Isaac and Joseph Moser’s 5 May 1806 deposition that they were Frederick’s brothers; that he had been born in Stamford, Connecticut, on 28 Sept. 1782; that he had sailed from New York about six years previously bound for Liverpool; and that he had red hair, light-blue eyes, and freckles, was five-feet-seven-inches tall and had been raised as a carpenter.