A Report of the Whole Trial of Gen. Michael Bright, and Others, Before Washington & Peters in the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the District of Pennsylvania in the Third Circuit, on an Indictment for Obstructing, Resisting, and Opposing the Execution of the Writ of Arrest, Issued Out of the District Court of Pennsylvania, in the Case of Gideon Olmstead and Others Against the Surviving Executrices of David Rittenhouse, Deceased |
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... sloop Active , having been captured as prize on the high seas , in the month of September , one thousand seven hundred and seventy- eight , and brought into the port of Philadelphia and there libelled in the court of admiralty of the ...
... sloop Active , having been captured as prize on the high seas , in the month of September , one thousand seven hundred and seventy- eight , and brought into the port of Philadelphia and there libelled in the court of admiralty of the ...
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... sloop Girard , became entitled to the remaining one fourth part of the said prize . That the said Gideon Olmstead ... sloop Active , taken by the brigantine Convention , and the Girard privateer , and take up the money which will ...
... sloop Girard , became entitled to the remaining one fourth part of the said prize . That the said Gideon Olmstead ... sloop Active , taken by the brigantine Convention , and the Girard privateer , and take up the money which will ...
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... sloop Active and her cargo that in the obedience to the said resolutions the said George Ross did direct Matthew Clarkson , then marshal of the said court to pay part of the proceeds of the said prize , to the amount of eleven hundred ...
... sloop Active and her cargo that in the obedience to the said resolutions the said George Ross did direct Matthew Clarkson , then marshal of the said court to pay part of the proceeds of the said prize , to the amount of eleven hundred ...
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... sloop Active , captured during the revolutionary war , into the treasury . With the requisi- tions of that law , the said executrixes have complied . It now becomes my duty , agreeable to the provision of that act , to protect the ...
... sloop Active , captured during the revolutionary war , into the treasury . With the requisi- tions of that law , the said executrixes have complied . It now becomes my duty , agreeable to the provision of that act , to protect the ...
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... sloop Active , condemned the vessel and cargo , as lawful prize of war to the appellants . From causes that need not at present be explored , no benefit could be derived from this final decree , during the languid and inefficient ...
... sloop Active , condemned the vessel and cargo , as lawful prize of war to the appellants . From causes that need not at present be explored , no benefit could be derived from this final decree , during the languid and inefficient ...
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