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  • Index to Seamen’s Protection Certificate Applications. Port of Philadelphia, 1824-1861. Record Group 36, Records of the Bureau of Customs, National Ar
    Ruth Priest Dixon
    This book in an index of 18,354 names compiled from original applications for Seamen’s Protection Certificates (SPC) filed at the Port of Philadelphia between 1824 and 1861. As a group, seamen were often missed at census time; consequently the SPC application may be the only record available for many 18th-century persons who served in the American merchant marine. The index giv...
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  • Indexes to Seamen’s Protection Certificate Applications and Proofs of Citizenship
    Ruth Priest Dixon
    Seamen’s Protection Certificates were authorized by Congress in 1796 to identify American merchant seamen as citizens of the U.S. and as such entitled to protection against impressment by the British Navy, a major cause of the War of 1812. Certificates were issued long after that conflict, in fact right up to the Civil War, and they constitute an important proof of citizenship ...
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  • Index to Seamen
    Katherine George Eberly / Robert EdDixon / Ruth Dixon / Ruth Priest Dixon
    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 at sea. This work is an index to the names of merchant seamen who made application for a Seamen’s Protection Certificate (SPC) at the Port of Philadelphia between 1796 and 1823 and is ...
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