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"Department of State to Navy Department, 2d January, 1840: memorandum." U.S. Congress. House. Africans Taken in the Amistad. 26th Congress., 1st sess., 1840.H. Doc. 185.
Memorandum from the Department of State to the Secretary of the Navy.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, January 2, 1840.
The vessel destined to convey the negroes of the Amistad to Cuba, to be ordered to anchor off the port of New Haven, Connecticut, as early as the 10th of January next, and be in readiness to receive said negroes from the marshal of the United States, and proceed with them to the Havana, under instructions to be hereafter transmitted.
Lieutenants Gedney and Meade to be ordered to hold themselves in readiness to
proceed in the same vessel, for the purpose of affording their testimony in any proceedings
that may be ordered by the authorities of Cuba in the matter.
These orders should be given with special instructions that they are not to be communicated
to any one.
