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
_Eighth 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 3d day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1861, 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 vessel, to wit, a brig,
called the Joseph, then and there being owned by certain persons,
citizens of the United States of America, to wit, George H. Cables,
John Cables, and Stephen Hatch, of Rockland, in the State of Maine,
and in and upon certain divers persons whose names are to the
Jurors aforesaid unknown, the said last-mentioned persons each
being then and there a mariner, and of the ship's company of the
said brig called the Joseph, and then and there being in and on
board of the said brig, the Joseph, did, on pretense of authority
from a person, to wit, one Jefferson Davis, then and there,
piratically, feloniously, and violently, make an assault, and them
did, on pretense of authority from a person, to wit, one Jefferson
Davis, then and there, piratically, feloniously, and violently, put
in bodily fear, and the said brig, the Joseph, of the value of
$3,000, and the apparel, tackle, and furniture thereof, of the
value of $500, of the goods, chattels, and personal property of the
said George H. Cables, John Cables, and Stephen Hatch, and 250
hogsheads of sugar, of the value of $100 each hogshead, of the
goods, chattels, and personal property of one Thies N. Meyer, from
the said divers persons, mariners as aforesaid, whose names are to
the Jurors aforesaid unknown, in their presence, then and there,
and against their will, did, on pretense of authority from a
person, to wit, one Jefferson Davis, then and there, piratically,
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