The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

A few days ago, Mr. Jacob Durvee, of Dutchess county, went down to New-York in a sloop, and carried with him a Negro man, who was to assist in navigating the vessel. When he had done his business and was coming away, the Negro refused to return. On this, with the help of the master of the sloop, he tied the Negro, carried him in a cart to the water side, put him on board, and set sail: They had not sailed far, before they were boarded by a barge, with a Negro Colonel and a company of Hessian soldiers, who treated Duryee and the master with great insolence, obliged the sloop to go back to New York, seized her, released the Negro, put the master and Duryee in the provost, where they are to remain, it is said, till tried by a court martial. Large bail was offered for them, but refused. The sloop was permitted to come up the river to discharge her cargo, on giving 200l. security, to return her in twenty days to New-York. Such is the account we have here of this affair, which occasions great speculation and emotion.

The above account is corroborated by several others who were in the city at that time. Since which we have heard that Mr. Duryee and the master of the sloop have been tried by a court-martial, but the result has not yet transpired.