The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-03-11
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JOHN LEWIS, deputy regifte1
FREDERICKSBURG, March q
COMMONWEALTH Of Virginia,
OiRri9 of ErederickRurp. tn auit


Djfria Of Fredeyieki6urg, TO avit:
BY THIS PUBLIC INSTRUMENT OF PRO-
TEST, BE it known unto all whom it NAV
concern, that on this twenty-ffth day of Fe
bruary in the year of our Lord one thoriand
eight hundred and fix, before me, BENJAMIN
Parke, Notary Public in and for the diarict' of
Fredericksburg. in the commonwealth of Vir.
ginia, by lawful authority commiflioned and
qualified, dwelling in the corporation of Ere.
derickfburg in faid diariet: perfonalIy came
David Polk, matter, and Benjamin Hazegrove,
Supercargo, of the fchooner Corotoman Of Pre-.
derickibnrg, and commonwealth of Virginia,
who being fworn on the Holy Evangeliffs of
Almighty God, did feveraly dcpole and de.
clare, that they failed in their REFLECTIVE cana
cities aforefaid, on board the faid fchoener,
from the port Of Tappahannock i'm Virginia, ON
the 7th day of January lalt, bound to the ifIand
OF Bermudas, and arrived there on the 81 day
of the fame month and landed their cargo.
That on the end day of February init. the
tchooner being cleared out at the Cuftom
Houie, laying At anchor oppoGte the town of
Hamilton, and ready to fet fail for Virginia fbe
was boarded by Lieutenant LAYTON, command
er of his Britannia MajeHy's cutter Adonis,
who imprehed and took from on board the faid
fchooner, Thomas Simpfon, an apprentice bow
who was native born citizen of the u. States.
belonging to the faid fchooner, and who had
failed in her for two three years lalt paft.
and, notwithstanding thefe deponents rernon.
ltratcd with the faid Lieutenant Iawfon. and
ihewed him the Collectors certificate and every
other document neGcfary to prove that the
faid Simpfon was a. native born citizen of the
U. States, he fill periited in his determination,
and took the faid Thomas Simpfon by force, ON
board faid cutter Adonis; which circumstance.
together with another of the hands being: at
that time very i'll, put it out Of the power of
the Opponents to proceed to Tea for the wan.
OF hands to mann the vefcl; wherefore the
fad David Polk was under the acccfTity of ap-
plying TO the Governor of the illand for the re.
leaie of the faid SimpfoD, but the Governor re-
fuied to do any thing in the bufnefs, aud would
give no satisfactory reply to bis fplici,atjoD-
Thus circumha'wed and finding it impoiIio!e
to procure hand in the room of Smpfon. the
faid BENJAMIN Hazlegrove went from Hamilton
to st. Georges and waited on the Governor.
as well as the Chief MagiArate of the place, g.
every other perfon in authority, for the purpofr
of procuring the boys releafe, but all was done
III vain, ior every one rrfufed to take any fteps
for that purpote, although this deponent, Ha-
zIegrove, afIured them that he knew the BOY to
be native born citizen Of the United States.
and was ready and willing TO make fDlemn oath
to that effect; and that the only reply or fatif.
faction which this deponent could get from
Lieutenant Lawfon was, that he did not care to
what nation the faid Symptom belonged, or
where he was born, for at that time they want.
ed men, and men they would have. And theft
opponents further fay, that, in this fihiation the
tchooner Corotoman was detained at Hamilton
for ten days, and mut have been kept much
longer for the want of hands, had not they met
with paiienger who came with them to the u /.
States, and Alfred in working the yefel. That,
fhssr Ir fk.,,< &. a
the faid Symptom, fubieeted the(e deponents 20
much tronble and inconyeniency, as well as
confiderabie expenfe to the flid fchooncr and
themfeiycs and the rifk run, by being obliged to
put to Tea without full compliment Of expe.
rieBccd hands.
Rkeyyfoye, He the fsid David Polk, mater
Of faid ichooner, hath required to protect ; and
the faid Notary. at his fprcial iyftarce and re-
qreR have ,proiefted AID by tbafr prsfea,s DO