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Documents relating to the case of the United States frigate Mercury, under the command of George Washington Eayrs, captured by Spanish authorities off the coast of California in 1813, 1820-1841.

Title: Documents relating to the case of the United States frigate Mercury, under the command of George Washington Eayrs, captured by Spanish authorities off the coast of California in 1813, 1820-1841.

Legal documents, reports, certificates, petitions, and receipts relating to the 1813 smuggling case of George Washinton Eayrs. Includes estimate and list of losses by Eayrs; a defense of Captain Nicholas Noé's confiscation of goods; requests by Captain Eayrs and his agent, William Eayrs, for compensation from the Spanish and later, the Mexican, government; a chronological review of the court proceedings prepared by Joseph Connor, Eayrs's lawyer; and several legal opinions produced by the court regarding Earys's claims and settlement.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

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Documents relating to the case of the United States frigate Mercury, under the command of George Washington Eayrs, captured by Spanish authorities off the coast of California in 1813, 1820-1841.

Title: Documents relating to the case of the United States frigate Mercury, under the command of George Washington Eayrs, captured by Spanish authorities off the coast of California in 1813, 1820-1841.

Legal documents, reports, certificates, petitions, and receipts relating to the 1813 smuggling case of George Washington Eayrs. Includes estimate and list of losses by Eayrs; a defense of Captain Nicholas Noé's confiscation of goods; requests by Captain Eayrs and his agent, William Eayrs, for compensation from the Spanish and later, the Mexican, government; a chronological review of the court proceedings prepared by Joseph Connor, Eayrs's lawyer; and several legal opinions produced by the court regarding Earys's claims and settlement.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83395427 View

Eayrs, George Washington, 1775-1855. Letters of George W. Eayrs, 1813-1815 : San Diego, California : typescript, [ca. 1910].

Title: Letters of George W. Eayrs, 1813-1815 : San Diego, California : typescript, [ca. 1910].

Typed transcripts, prepared by Irving B. Richman around 1910, of 10 letters and 1 memorandum written from San Diego by George W. Eayrs, one of the most daring and enterprising of the Yankee contraband traders who traveled up and down the coast of California between 1805 and 1814.

ArchivalResource: 10 letters ([18] leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49817603 View