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
goods, chattels, and personal property of one Morales, whose
Christian name is to the jurors aforesaid unknown, the said sugar
being then and there in and on board of the said brig, the Joseph,
and being then and there the lading thereof, and the said brig and
the tackle, apparel, and furniture thereof, and the said two
hundred and fifty hogsheads of sugar then and there being in the
care, custody, and possession of the said Thies N. Meyer, and the
said divers other persons, mariners, as aforesaid, and of the
ship's company of the said brig, the Joseph, and whose names are to
the jurors aforesaid unknown, from the said Thies N. Meyer and the
said divers other persons, mariners, aforesaid, and of the ship's
company of the said brig, the Joseph, whose names are, as
aforesaid, to the jurors aforesaid, unknown, and from their care,
custody, and possession, and in their presence and against their
will, piratically, feloniously, and violently, rob, seize, 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.
_Third 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, A.D. 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, did, 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
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