To James Madison from Ebenezer Allyn, 29 December 1801 (Abstract)
§ From Ebenezer Allyn
29 December 1801, New York. “In compliance with the act of Congress for the relief and protection of American Seamen1 I now transmit you a duplicate of my protest [not found] made in Liverpool on account of the Impressment of a seaman belonging to the Ship Betsey of New York.”
RC (DNA: RG 59, Correspondence with Collectors of Customs regarding Impressed Seamen, box 12). 1 p.
1. The 1796 “Act for the relief and protection of American Seamen” required masters of vessels from which seamen had been impressed to enter a protest at the next port at which they touched following the impressment and to submit a duplicate of the protest to the Secretary of State “immediately after … arrival within the United States” ( , 1:477–78).