Report of the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred on the Eighth Instant, The Petition of George Little, of the State of Massachusetts. December 22, 1806.

(Captain George Little, United States Navy, 1754-1809) / Washington City: A. & G. Way, printers, 1806
first edition; 15 pp, general age toning and a dot of red ink in the upper outside comer of late leaves far from letters, light extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers, overall good; concerns the Flying Fish, a brig loaded with coffee, captured off Hispaniola by Captain Little in the United States frigate Boston and Captain Perry in the frigate General Greene in 1799; a complicated prize case, was the Flying Fish was an American or Danish ship, was she going to or from a French port, etc, went before the United States Supreme Court as Little v. Barreme, Little lost but the House would like to give him the money anyway. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States Navy, Quasi-War with France, prize ships, law, BRP

Item #: 773603

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