Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New YorkWarburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
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Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Warburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
Piracy -- United States; Privateering -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
of certain persons whose names are to the Jurors aforesaid unknown,
the said two hundred and fifty hogsheads of sugar being then and
there in and on board of the said brig, and being then and there
the lading thereof, and the said brig, the tackle, apparel and
furniture thereof and the said two hundred and fifty hogsheads of
sugar, being then and there in the care, custody and possession of
the said Thies N. Meyer, Horace W. Bridges, Albert Nash, William H.
Clanning, John J. Merritt, John Quin and Joseph H. Golden, from the
said Thies N. Meyer, Horace W. Bridges, Albert Nash, William H.
Clanning, John J. Merritt, John Quin and Joseph H. Golden, and from
their said possession, care and custody, and in their presence and
against their will, violently, piratically and feloniously, seize,
rob, steal, take and carry away, against the form of the statute of
the said United States of America in such case made and provided,
and against the peace of the said United States and their dignity.
_Seventh Count_: And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid, do further present: That Thomas Harrison Baker, late of
the City and County of New York, in the District and Circuit
aforesaid, mariner; and John Harleston, late of the same place,
mariner; Charles Sidney Passalaigue, late of the same place,
mariner; Henry Cashman Howard, late of the same place, mariner;
Joseph Cruz del Carno, late of the same place, mariner; Henry Oman,
late of the same place, mariner; Patrick Daly, late of the same
place, mariner; William Charles Clark, late of the same place,
mariner; Albert Gallatin Ferris, late of the same place, mariner;
Richard Palmer, late of the same place, mariner; John Murphy, late
of the same place, mariner; Alexander Carter Coid, late of the same
place, mariner; and Martin Galvin, late of the same place, mariner,
on the third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one, upon the high seas, out of the
jurisdiction of any particular State, and within the admiralty and
maritime jurisdiction of the said United States of America, and
within the jurisdiction of this Court, each then and there being a
citizen of the said United States of America, did, on pretense of
authority from a person, to wit, one Jefferson Davis, with force
and arms, piratically, feloniously and violently set upon, board,
break and enter a certain American vessel, to wit, a brig called
the Joseph, the same then and there being owned in part by George
H. Cables, John Cables and Stephen Hatch, then citizens of the
United States of America, and did, on pretense of authority from a
person, to wit, one Jefferson Davis, then and there in and on board
of the said brig, the Joseph, in and upon one Thies N. Meyer, then
and there being a mariner and one of the ship's company of the said
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