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Extract from an act, for the relief and protection of American seamen.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 47979
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Government document
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- United States.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47979.
- Standardized Title:
- Act for the relief and protection of American seamen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sailors--United States.
- Sailors.
- United States.
- Impressment.
- Maritime law--United States.
- Maritime law.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 21 x 11 cm
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- [Newport, R.I.] : [Printed by Henry Barber], [1796]
- Notes:
- Sections 5 and 6 of the act passed on May 28, 1796, concerning American seamen detained or seized by any foreign power.
- The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is signed in ms.: A true extract. W. Ellery, jr. dis. coll. William Ellery was the revenue collector for the district of Newport, R.I., and it is likely that the broadside was printed by Henry Barber, that town's only printer in 1796.
- Printed area measures 16.3 x 8.3 cm.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47979).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B9751
- Shipton & Mooney 47979
- OCLC:
- 55839122
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