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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Boston report via letters from an American vessel master in Greenock, GB, detailing inability to recruit sailors who fear returning to America to starve due to the ongoing embargo, preferring British ships instead.
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BOSTON March 21.
OUR BANISHED SEAMEN.
Extract of a letter from the master of an American vessel at Greenock, (G. B. ) to his owner in this country.
" I dont know what I shall do for men, I have not one on board except the mate.-- Sailors think the embargo is not coming off, so they are afraid to come home, for fear they shall starve ; and prefer sailing in British ships. I shall get runners to go with me to Liverpool, and take the chance of getting men there ; for you might as well ask a man here to jump overboard, as to go to America."
Another extract of a letter from the same to his father in Gloucester.
" i have not a sailor on board my vessel, except my mate, for they expect the embargo will never be taken off, and they prefer a British ship to coming home to their once plentiful country to starve."
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Greenock, G.B.
Event Date
March 21
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vessel master unable to recruit sailors except the mate, who prefer british ships over returning to america fearing starvation due to the embargo.
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Extracts from letters by the master of an American vessel in Greenock to his owner and father, expressing difficulty in finding crew as sailors believe the embargo will not end and fear starving in America, opting for British ships; plans to seek men in Liverpool.