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1809 Apr. 3
Breda Prison. To Sylvanus Bourne, Amsterdam Netherlands. Plead for their liberation.
Seventeen years' history of the life and sufferings of James M'Lean : an impressed American citizen & seaman, embracing but a summary of what he endured, while detained in the British service, during that long and eventful period /
The author was three times impressed into the British Navy, 1798-1805, each time making his escape.
1809 Feb. 14
Rotterdam, Netherlands. To Sylvanus Bourne, Amsterdam, Netherlands. I hope you will look into our situation.
1808 July 2
Breda Prison, Netherlands. To Sylvanus Bourne, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Concerns his impressment by the British Navy and later taken by the Dutch and pleads for liberation.
1808 July 10
Breda Castle, Netherlands. To Sylvanus Bourne, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Asks assistance to be released.
1808 Sept. 4
Breda Castle, Netherlands. To Sylvanus Bourne, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Be so good as to free me from Imprisonment as I am confined unjustly I was not in Arms against the Hollanders nor any Other Power.
1808 Nov. 13
Breda Prison Netherlands. To Sylvanus Bourne, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Do what you can in my behalf; I sent You every particular that I could concerning my Citizenship.
1808 June 29
Breda prison, Netherlands. To Sylvanus Bourne, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Deals with his imprisonment.
1807 Sept. 1
Department of State. To The Collector of the Customs, New Haven, Connecticut. Concerns the impressments of Thomas Brookes.
1808 Apr. 28
Department of State. To The Collector of the Customs, New Haven, Connecticut. Refers to the impressment of Bela Potter.
1814 Feb. 5
Washington City. To Harmanus Bleecker, Albany, New York. Deals with impressment, Clay
