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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Boatmen transporting salt from Onondaga to Niagara had their boat and cargo valued at 60l. seized by British forces at Fort Oswego as a legal prize. The owner, learning of a British boat sent to Schenectady, raised men and seized it on the Mohawk River in reprisal, capturing cargo worth over 300 pounds. Rivers westward are lined with privateers detaining boats violating the U.S. embargo.
Merged-components note: This is a continuation of the domestic news story about boatmen and reprisals from Whitestown, N.Y., split across pages but sequential in reading order and text flow.
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The following may be depended on as fact: some boatmen were proceeding with a boat load of salt and other articles, valued at 60l. from the Onondaga salt spring to Niagara. While passing Fort Oswego, a detachment of British forces, stationed at that place, seized the boat and cargo, and condemned them as a legal prize. The owner of the property seized, obtained information that a boat was dispatched, from Niagara, some time since, to Schenectady, on the Mohawk River, by the subjects of his Britannic majesty, for articles to a considerable amount. Exasperated at his usage at Fort Oswego, he raised a party of men, and proceeded to the place on the river points where they came across the boat belonging to Niagara, on its return, with a cargo valued at upwards of three hundred pounds; which they seized upon as a reprisal of the property taken from them at Fort Oswego.
We hear further, that the banks of the rivers to the westward are lined with privateers, in wait for boats bound to Niagara, and other British settlements, which they are determined to detain, not only as reprisals, but as violations of the embargo laid upon all vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States.
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Fort Oswego
Event Date
May 14
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american boat and cargo valued at 60l. seized by british at fort oswego; reprisal seizure of british boat and cargo valued at upwards of three hundred pounds on mohawk river; broader detentions by privateers for embargo violations.
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Boatmen transporting salt and articles valued at 60l. from Onondaga salt spring to Niagara had their boat seized by British detachment at Fort Oswego and condemned as legal prize. Owner learned of British boat dispatched from Niagara to Schenectady for goods, raised party of men, intercepted and seized the returning British boat on Mohawk River as reprisal. Rivers to westward lined with privateers waiting to detain boats to Niagara and British settlements for reprisals and embargo violations.