Thomas Jefferson Papers

Enclosure: Extract from Coffee House Book , 29 June 1805

Enclosure: Extract from Coffee House Book

Extract fm. the Coffee House Book. June 29th.

Arrived the Schooner Baltimore 12 Days fm. Bermudas, The Cambrian & Driver have sent into Bermuda’s the Spanish privateer Schooner Maria, Antonio LeBo Master, She had captured the Charles Carter[,] Tomkins, of Norfolk from Wilmington N.C. bound to Falmouth & the Ship Huntress of Boston from the City of Washington bound to Gibraltar loaded as the Captain Says for account of the government [of] the U.S. they were Recaptured in sight of the Westend of Bermuda by the British Letter of Marque’s on the 9th Inst & supposed to have been ordered to Europe

MS (DLC); torn; in a clerk’s hand.

The new captors of the huntress sent the ship to Liverpool, where in September 1805 a British admiralty court ordered that the ship and cargo should be restored to their owners (NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 6:72-3, 278-9).

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    “Enclosure: Extract from Coffee House Book , 29 June 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0659-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, p. 660.]

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