PICKERING, Timothy (1745-1829). Autograph letter signed ("Timothy Pickering"), as Secretary of State, to Richard VARICK (1753-1831), Mayor of New York. Philadelphia, 11 January 1798.
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Lot Description
PICKERING, Timothy (1745-1829). Autograph letter signed ("Timothy Pickering"), as Secretary of State, to Richard VARICK (1753-1831), Mayor of New York. Philadelphia, 11 January 1798.
1 page, 4to. Provenance Walter Dormitzer (sold Henkels, Philadelphia, 18 March 1921.
PICKERING WRITES THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK ABOUT THE IMPRESSMENT OF AMERICAN SEAMEN BY THE BRITISH
Pickering writes: "Judge Trout wrote me on the 28th ult. an account of the proceedings on the writs issued from the Circuit Court of the United States against Capt. Tudor Tucker, commander of a British Sloop of war, to effect the discharge of three seamen claiming to be American Citizens. He added that he understood some suit had been instituted in the Mayor's Court of the city of New York, in behalf of those seamen, for false imprisonment, but was not accurately acquainted with the consequences." The impressment of American seamen by the British Royal Navy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries has traditionally been viewed as a primary cause of the War of 1812.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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