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Download or read book Testimonies Regarding the Capture of the Amistad and Subsequent Salvage Claims, November 1839 written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created at Connecticut District Court in November 1839. At the top, states: Schooner Amistad plea to jurisdictions & matter of it- Baldwin says most extraordinary objections & c Circuit Court said only that so long as the matter was pending before the District Ct that Court should not dismiss & c... Relates events that took place 26 August 1839, when Captains Henry Green and Peletiah Fordham, [Fithy?], Sherman, Conklin met the Africans from the Amistad on the shore near Culloden Point, New York. Green would later enter a salvage claim for the ship and its contents. A faint pencil note on the first page states plea alleges 2 grounds of jurisdiction 1. not property & c. 2. signed within N york district & on shore. On last page, contains statements from General Isham and W. F. Brainard (lawyers for the Connecticut residents' who had claimed salvage) and C. F. [Lister?].