Assertion: schooner | /r/HasProperty | navigated for the coast of africa
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text: On the 23d day of January 1840, Thomas R. Gedney and Richard W. Meade, officers of the United States surveying brig Washington, on behalf of themselves and the officers and crew of the brig Washington and of others interested and entitled, filed a libel in the district court of the United States for the district of Connecticut stating that off Culloden Point, near Montauk Point, they took possession of a vessel which proved to be a Spanish schooner, called the Amistad, of Havana, in the Island of Cuba, of about 120 tons burden, and the said libelants found said schooner was manned by forty-five negroes, some of whom had landed near the said point for water, 40 U.S. 522 and there were also on board two Spanish gentlemen who represented themselves to be, and, as the libelants verily believed, were part owners of the cargo and of the negroes on board, who were slaves belonging to said Spanish gentlemen; that the schooner Amistad sailed, on the 28th day of June, A.D. 1839, from the port of Havana, bound to a port in the province of Principe, both in the island of Cuba, under the command of Raymon Ferrer, as master thereof; that the schooner had on board and was laden with a large and valuable cargo, and provisions to the amount, in all, of $40,000, and also money to the sum and amount of about $250; and also fifty-four slaves, to-wit, fifty-one male slaves and three young female slaves who were worth $25,000, and, while on the voyage from Havana to Principe, the slaves rose upon the master and crew of the schooner and killed and murdered the master and one of the crew, and two more of the crew escaped and got away from the schooner; that the two Spaniards on board, to-wit, Pedro Montez and Jose Ruiz, remained alive on board the schooner after the murder of the master and after the negroes had taken possession of the vessel and cargo; that their lives were spared to assist in the sailing of the vessel, and it was directed by the negroes that the schooner should be navigated for the coast of Africa, and Pedro Montez and Jose Ruiz did accordingly steer as thus directed, and compelled by the negroes, at the peril of their lives, in the day-time, and, in the night, altered their course and steered for the American shore; but, after two months on the ocean, they succeeded in coming round Montauk Point, when they were discovered and boarded by the libelants, and the two Spanish gentlemen begged for and claimed the aid and protection of the libelants.