1. Harvard graduate James Lloyd Jr. (1769–1831) was a Boston merchant. Lloyd served terms in the Massachusetts legislature in 1800–1801 and 1804. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1808 to 1813 and again from 1822 to 1826, when he retired and moved to Philadelphia.

2. The enclosures (4 pp.) are copies of (1) Ezra Lewis’s 28 Jan. 1806 declaration before Boston notary public William Stevenson that although the ship that seized the Hoppet sailed under English colors, it was manned by twenty-six Spaniards and four Frenchmen; that he had appealed to the commandant of Mayagüez for protection but was told he must submit to his fate; that after waiting three days with no redress, he took passage for St. Thomas and entered his protest; that he then went to Philadelphia, and now appealed to JM; (2) Lewis’s post–20 Apr. 1804 protest, signed before Owen Eivers, acting consul at St. Thomas, and cosigned with an X by seaman Thomas James, that the Hoppet left Tobago on 5 Apr. 1804 for Turk’s Island; that on 16 Apr., about nine or ten leagues off Cape Isabella, they were boarded by a small privateer bearing British colors; that the privateersmen boarded the Hoppet, ordered the captain’s chest opened, and took his quadrant and a quarter of his clothes, books, and papers, after which they brought the captain, the mate, and three seamen onto the privateer. On 17 Apr., about three leagues from land, the privateersmen ordered the mate and the seamen into a boat with bread, pork, and water, and cast them off; they ordered the captain into the boat also, but he refused; the privateer cruised for several days then went into Mayagüez at the west end of Puerto Rico, where the Hoppet, which Lewis was not permitted to board, arrived the following day. Lewis and James then took passage to St. Thomas, where they made their protest to Eivers the day after their arrival; and (3) Lewis’s 28 Jan. 1806 statement that the losses to the owners amounted to $4,310.17 for the brig, a cargo of rum, and advance wages and provisions, and $294.67 for his own loss of two puncheons of rum, a gold watch and “sundry Articles” plundered from him by the privateersmen. An 1820 statement from John Quincy Adams to Congress said that the Hoppet, of Hingham, Massachusetts, had been on a trip from Tobago to Turk’s Island when it was captured on 16 Apr. 1804, and carried into Puerto Rico and that the value claimed, exclusive of interest, was $8,624 (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 5:36, 42).