To James Madison from Benjamin Hammell Phillips, 9 May 1801 (Abstract)
§ From Benjamin Hammell Phillips
9 May 1801, Curaçao. Reports that in most cases warships have released impressed American sailors on his application. Has been informed by governor that hereafter nothing but American produce will be admitted in American ships.
RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Curaçao, vol. 1). 3 pp. Printed in Columbian Centinel, 21 May 1803).
, 7:222–23. Phillips, a Pennsylvanian, had been appointed U.S. consul at Curaçao in 1793 and died there in March 1803 ( , 1:131; Boston