United States v. Libellants & of the Schooner Amistad
Supreme Court of the United States
ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. 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 Montauck Point, they…
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ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. 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 Montauck Point, they took possession of a vessel • which proved to be a Spanish schooner called the Amistad, of Havana, in the island of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is the case of an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of the District of Connecticut, sitting in admiralty. The leading facts, as they appear upon the transcript of the proceedings, are as'follows: On the 27th of June, 1839, the schooner L’Amistad, being the property of Spanish subjects, cleared out from the port of Havana, in the island of Cuba,-for Puerto Principe, in' the same island. On board of the schooner were the' •captain, Ransom Ferrer, and Jose Ruiz, and Pedro Montez, all Spanish subjects. The former had with him a negro boy, named Antonio, claimed to be his slave.…
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