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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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In New York on Sept. 16, Dix. M. Kimn Andrews, commander of the schooner Endymion captured off Africa, was tried for involvement in the slave trade under the 1800 act. Jury instructed to return verdict the next morning; conviction could mean up to $2000 fine and two years imprisonment.
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United States,
Indictment for being concerned in
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the slave trade.
Dix. M. Kimn Andrews.
Yesterday the above cause was tried before his honor Judge Livingston, R. Tillotson, district attorney, and A. Bunner, esqrs. for the United States, and Thomas Addis Emmet, and J. R. Scott, esqrs. for the defendant.
It appeared in the course of the evidence, that the defendant was commander of the schooner Endymion, one of the vessels lately captured on the coast of Africa, by the Cyane sloop of war, and sent into this port. He was tried under the act of Congress passed in the year 1800. The trial occupied the court until near five o'clock in the afternoon, when the jury were charged by the Judge, and the cause committed to them with instructions when they had agreed on the verdict, to sign and seal up the same, and return it to the court at 10 o'clock this morning, to which time the court has adjourned.
The punishment in this case, in case of conviction, is not to exceed 2000 dollars fine, and two years imprisonment.
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New York
Event Date
Sept. 16
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jury to return verdict at 10 o'clock this morning; punishment if convicted: not to exceed 2000 dollars fine and two years imprisonment.
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The defendant was tried for being concerned in the slave trade as commander of the schooner Endymion, captured on the coast of Africa by the Cyane sloop of war and sent into this port. Tried under the act of Congress passed in 1800. Trial before Judge Livingston with R. Tillotson and A. Bunner for the United States, and Thomas Addis Emmet and J. R. Scott for the defendant. Trial lasted until near five o'clock, then jury charged and instructed to seal verdict for return at 10 o'clock.