1839, April 9. Susan, suspected slaver, boarded by the British. House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  V. No. 115, pp. 34-41.

1839, July-Sept. Dolphin (or Constitucao), Hound, Mary Cushing (or Sete de Avril), with American and Spanish flags and papers. Ibid., pp. 28, 51-5, 109-10, 136, 234-8; House Reports, 27 Cong. 3 sess.  III.  No. 283, pp. 709-15.

1839, Aug. L’Amistad, slaver, with fifty-three Negroes on board, who mutinied; the vessel was then captured by a United States vessel and brought into Connecticut; the Negroes were declared free. House Doc., 26 Cong. 1 sess.  IV.  No. 185; 27 Cong. 3 sess.  V. No. 191; 28 Cong. 1 sess.  IV.  No. 83; House Exec.  Doc., 32 Cong. 2 sess.  III.  No. 20; House Reports, 26 Cong. 2 sess.  No. 51; 28 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 426; 29 Cong. 1 sess.  IV.  No. 753; Senate Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  IV.  No. 179; Senate Exec.  Doc., 31 Cong. 2 sess.  III.  No. 29; 32 Cong. 2 sess.  III.  No. 19; Senate Reports, 31 Cong. 2 sess.  No. 301; 32 Cong. 1 sess.  I. No. 158; 35 Cong. 1 sess.  I. No. 36; Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in 15 Peters, 518; Opinions of the Attorneys-General, III. 484-92.

1839, Sept. My Boy, of New Orleans, seized by a British cruiser, and condemned at Sierra Leone. Niles’s Register, LVII. 353.

1839, Sept. 23. Butterfly, of New Orleans, fitted as a slaver, and captured by a British cruiser on the coast of Africa. House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  No. 115, pp. 191, 244-7; Niles’s Register, LVII. 223.

1839, Oct. Catharine, of Baltimore, captured on the African coast by a British cruiser, and brought by her to New York. House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  V No. 115, pp. 191, 215, 239-44; Niles’s Register, LVII. 119, 159.

1839. Asp, Laura, and Mary Ann Cassard, foreign slavers sailing under the American flag. House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  V. No. 115, pp. 126-7, 209-18; House Reports, 27 Cong. 3 sess.  III.  No. 283, p. 688 ff.

1839. Two Friends, of New Orleans, equipped slaver, with Spanish, Portuguese, and American flags. House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  V. No. 115, pp. 120, 160-2, 305.

1839. Euphrates, of Baltimore, with American papers, seized by British cruisers as Spanish property.  Before this she had been boarded fifteen times. Ibid., pp. 41-4; A.H.  Foote, Africa and the American Flag, pp. 152-6.

1839. Ontario, American slaver, “sold” to the Spanish on shipping a cargo of slaves. House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess.  V. No. 115, pp. 45-50.

1839. Mary, of Philadelphia; case of a slaver whose nationality was disputed. House Reports, 27 Cong. 3 sess.  III.  No. 283, pp. 736-8; Senate Doc., 29 Cong. 1 sess.  VIII.  No. 377, pp. 19, 24-5.