Wake County, NC - James Harvey Impressment, 1811

Raleigh, NC - June 21

The following paragraph is extracted from the narrative of a young
man lately escaped from impressment on board of an English vessel,
which appears in the Charleston Gazette of the 5th inst.

"I left James Harvey, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, at Cadiz,
on board a British Gunboat, No. 12, on the 11th of April last. He
had been impressed from the 4th of June, 1810."

Our readers will remember that the subject of young Harvey's 
impressment was agitated in the papers of this city during the last
winter. It was then undeniably shewn, in the Minerva, that Harvey,
so far from being a native of Raleigh, was not even an American - 
but a native of Scotland - probably of Greenock. We are authorised
to assert this as an unquestionable fact.

Harvey is a Scotchman; and we mention this, not because we do not
abhor and execrate impressment in every shape, but because we wish
every question to stand upon its proper footing, and to be decided
according to its real merits.

Source: Trenton Federalist - July 1, 1811

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