Winthrop S. Baker asks that the court "remit the penalties which he has incurred" with regards to his vessel, the sloop Nun. He states that his ship was seized for violating laws forbidding the importation of slaves into the United States. Baker claims that "he never had on board any vessel, under his command any negro or mulatto slave to be transported from one place to another." He states that the slaves, for whom he lacked documentation, were three native-born slaves who were the property of Mrs. Thomas J. Green of Tennessee. He states that his ship was seized for about nine weeks. He seeks compensation for the lost time. In support of the petition, President Andrew Jackson wrote "that the said violation was wholly unintentional."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Florida State Archives, Tallahassee, Florida
