Author: Ruth Dixon
Publisher: Clearfield Company
ISBN: 9780806348193
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Author: Ruth Dixon
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ISBN: 9780806368344
Category : Bath (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Indexes of proofs of citizenship, quarterly abstracts and registers, and original applications for Seamen's Protection Certificates filed at the ports of New Orleans, LA 1808-1821 & 1851-1857; New Haven, CT 1801-1843; Bath, ME 1833-1868; Mobile, AL 1819-1859; Middletown, CT 1796-1861; New London, CT 1799-1803; Alexandria, D.C. (now VA) 1803-1838; Rockland, ME 1855-1859; New Bedford, MA 1801-1826; Salem, MA 1811 & 1813; Portsmouth, NH 1813-1827; and Newport, RI 1813-1817.

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ISBN: 9780806368337
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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This work provides indexing of all Seamen's Protection Certificate applications and related proofs of citizenship filed by almost 50,000 seamen between 1796 and 1861 in a number of Atlantic Coast and Gulf Coast ports. This index covers a dozen ports with the records ranging from 4,400 applications for the Port of New Orleans to eighteen such proofs for New London, Connecticut.

Author: Ruth Priest Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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"Seamen's Protection Certificates were authorized by Congress in 1796 to identify American merchant seamen as citizens of the United States and as such entitled to protection against impressment. As early as 1791, similar documents were issued and the applications for them were preserved with the post-1796 ones. They are included in this work."--Intro. to v. 1.

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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806345896
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Seamen's Protection Certificates were authorized by Congress in 1795 to identify American merchant seamen as citizens of the United States and as such entitled to protection against impressment. The Certificates were a kind of passport and apparently were useful to seamen in other situations for they continued to be issued up to the Civil War. They were again issued 1872-1940.

Author: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674915550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation’s seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. Citizen Sailors tells the story of how their efforts to become American at sea in the midst of war and revolution created the first national, racially inclusive model of United States citizenship. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal immerses us in sailors’ pursuit of safe passage through the ocean world during the turbulent age of revolution. Challenged by British press-gangs and French privateersmen, who considered them Britons and rejected their citizenship claims, American seamen demanded that the U.S. government take action to protect them. In response, federal leaders created a system of national identification documents for sailors and issued them to tens of thousands of mariners of all races—nearly a century before such credentials came into wider use. Citizenship for American sailors was strikingly ahead of its time: it marked the federal government’s most extensive foray into defining the boundaries of national belonging until the Civil War era, and the government’s most explicit recognition of black Americans’ equal membership as well. This remarkable system succeeded in safeguarding seafarers, but it fell victim to rising racism and nativism after 1815. Not until the twentieth century would the United States again embrace such an inclusive vision of American nationhood.

Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Archives Trust Fund Board
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Guide to using the resources in the National Archives for conducting geneological research.

Author: Ruth Priest and Katherine George Eberly Dixon (compiled by)
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Author: Laura Szucs Pfeiffer
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Family history researchers are accustomed to searching among vital records, censuses, and other commonly used sources. But there are any number of more-obscure sources that can lead researchers to vital information, and Obscure Sources: Great Clues in Hidden Places will introduce you to them. Bankruptcy records, special censuses, employment records, and coroners' records are only a few of the kinds of records you can turn to when other sources prove unfruitful. Obscure Sources is an overview of a large number of sources that are often overlooked. It discusses where these records can be found, offers some options for locating these records through the Internet, and provides a selected bibliography of background information and methodology.