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” (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends , 1:477–78).

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Title: To James Madison from Ebenezer Allyn, 29 December 1801 (Abstract)
Author: Allyn, Ebenezer
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 29 December 1801

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Ebenezer Allyn, 29 December 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0609. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8, 1 September 1804 – 31 January 1805 and supplement 1776 – 23 June 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, p. 559.]