The Hiram, Barker, Master
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a case of capture, as prize, by the private armed brig Thorn, duly commissioned by the president of the United States, and commanded by Asa Hooper, Esq. *The Hiram, owned by Samuel G. Griffith, an American citizen, J sailed from Baltimore, on or about the 24th of September 1812, with a cargo of flour and bread, on a voyage to Lisbon. She was captured on the 15th of October following, and sent into Marblehead, in the district of Massachusetts, for adjudication.
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This was a case of capture, as prize, by the private armed brig Thorn, duly commissioned by the president of the United States, and commanded by Asa Hooper, Esq. *The Hiram, owned by Samuel G. Griffith, an American citizen, J sailed from Baltimore, on or about the 24th of September 1812, with a cargo of flour and bread, on a voyage to Lisbon. She was captured on the 15th of October following, and sent into Marblehead, in the district of Massachusetts, for adjudication. She was libelled in the district. court for the said district, by the captors. The vessel was claimed by Barker, the master,…
1Opinion of the CourtWashington, J.
On or about the 24th of September 1812, she sailed, with a cargo of flour and bread, from Baltimore to Lisbon ; and on her voyage thither, was captured, on the 15th of October following, by the privateer brig Thorn, and brought into the district of Massachusetts, where she and her cargo were libelled as being enemies’ property.
The brig was claimed by the master, in behalf of Griffith, and the cargo, by the supercargo, as belonging to the said Griffith, and other shippers, being American merchants of Baltimore. Among the papers found on board of this vessel, at the time of the capture, was a…
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