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Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 7, 1818 - February 10, 1819, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 7, 1818 - February 10, 1819, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Further Suspension Of Habeas Corpus, N.H. Gazette, Aug. 12, 1817

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Meanwhile, as readers of New Hampshire newspapers would have been aware, there was a controversial partial suspension of the writ in England during 1817-18 in consequence of disorderly protests in support of political and industrial reform.

Foreign News, N.H. Gazette, May 30, July 15, 1817

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Meanwhile, as readers of New Hampshire newspapers would have been aware, there was a controversial partial suspension of the writ in England during 1817-18 in consequence of disorderly protests in support of political and industrial reform.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 1, 1817 - February 4, 1818, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 1, 1817 - February 4, 1818, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Collection Of Personal Papers, Document Case 5035, Folder 37, New Hampshire State Archives - Letter From William Merchant Richardson To Josiah Butler, Dec. 7, 1816

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Hodsdon ... had his lawyer, William Merchant Richardson (who had by now become Chief Justice), write a letter to State Representative (later Congressman) Josiah Butler, who had formerly clerked in his office.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 2, 1816 - February 5, 1817, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 2, 1816 - February 5, 1817, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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From New Orleans, Dartmouth Gazette, May 31, 1815 At 4

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A contemporaneous report of habeas corpus and the actions of Gen. Jackson in New Orleans.

Trial Of General Jackson, Concord Gazette, May 23, 1815

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A contemporaneous report of habeas corpus and the actions of Gen. Jackson in New Orleans.

From New-Orleans, The Farmer’S Cabinet, May 22, 1815 At 1

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A contemporaneous report of habeas corpus and the actions of Gen. Jackson in New Orleans.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 4, 1815 - February 10, 1816, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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William And Mary College

1813–1818: Robert Nelson

The Visitors and Governors of William and Mary College have the satisfaction to announce to the public, that they have been enabled to fill the respective chairs in this Colleg . Doctor John Augustine Smith, is appointed President of the College and Professor of Moral Philosophy, including the Philosophy of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Ethics, Belles-Lettres, History, the principles of Natural and National Law and Political Economy. Mr. Ferdinand Campbell is Professor of Mathematics which professor-ship will include Geography, Astronomy, the practical branches of Surveying, Navigation the construction of Maps & Charts, Dialling, Fortification & Gunnery, Perspective & Architecture. Dr. Thomas …

In Re Hodsdon, Strafford County Superior Court Records 1814, Folder 38, Doc. 12, New Hampshire State Archives - Affidavit Of Jeremiah Eames

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… took up his residence at [a] house [that] has been a common receptacle for Canadians and smugglers (the house of Jeremiah Eames).

To Isaac Hodsdon, The [Concord] Gazette, Apr. 5, 1814

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A long and scathing response to [Hodsdon's) account was published as Letter to the Editor, “who invested you, most noble captain, with authority to act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner, upon these men?”

Isaac Hodsdon, Letter To The Editor, To The Public, N.H. Patriot, Mar. 29, 1814, At 3.

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He [Hodsdon] wrote to a newspaper several months later, he “posted sentinels at the forks and angles of roads for the purpose of detecting citizens who were in the nefarious practice of smuggling."

Capt. Hodgdon [Sic] – And Military Despotism, The [Windsor, Vt.] Washingtonian, Mar. 21, 1814

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An account of the writ of habeas corpus ordering Hodsdon to produce.the prisoners.

The Season Of Deception, N.H. Patriot6, March 8, 1814

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Rebuts claim of rival newspaper that Hodsdon was guilty of military despotism.

Highly Interesting Communication, The Concord Gazette, Mar. 1, 1814

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An account of Hodsdon's arrest and imprisonment of Charles Hanson, Sanders Welch Cooper and Charles Hall.

In Re Hodsdon, Strafford County Superior Court Records 1814, Folder 38, Doc. 1 - Application For Writ Of Habeas Corpus

Documents from Making Habeas Work: A Legal History (monograph)

... “all citizens of the United States” who had “been arrested by persons claiming to act under the authority of the President of the United States,” and were being confined by Hodsdon “without colour of authority.

In Re Hodsdon, Strafford County Superior Court Records 1814, Folder 38, Doc. 1, New Hampshire State Archives - Affidavit Of Joseph Loomis

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The affidavit of Joseph Loomis, a local judge,reported that he had been at the fort in January “and there saw imprisoned Austin Bissell a private citizen of the United States who has since been discharged.

In Re Hodsdon, Strafford County Superior Court Records 1814, Folder 38, Doc. 2, New Hampshire State Archives - Clerk's Endorsement Of Joseph Loomis Affidavit

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The affidavit of Joseph Loomis, a local judge,reported that he had been at the fort in January “and there saw imprisoned Austin Bissell a private citizen of the United States who has since been discharged.

Maine Historical Society, Coll. 8, Box 1/4 - Letter From T.H. Cushing To Isaac Hodsdon (Dec. 29, 1813)

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... General Thomas H. Cushing of the United States Army wrote from his headquarters in Boston to Captain Isaac Hodsdon … The act, laying an Embargo will justify you in stopping every person or thing which you may find in motion for the enemys country and you will not fail to make every exertion for carrying it into full and complete effect.

Resolution By William And Mary Students In Regard To The Death Of William Nelson, Professor Of Law

1804–1813: William Nelson

At a meeting of the Students of Wm. and Mary College on the 8th Inst. the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted.

We the Students of William & Mary College deeply impressed with a sense of our loss in the death of the late Hon. Judge Nelson, professor of Law in this college, and filled with sentiments of the highest veneration for the unparalleled virtues that adorned his private life, and with the utmost admiration of those talents and patriotic exertions which on pre-eminently distinguished him in his political services are anxious to pay to his memory the only …

In Re John Lewis Connor, July 18, 1812, Pennsylvania State Archives, Habeas Corpus 1809–1812

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In that case, the Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court directed a writ of habeas corpus to the commander of a Navy gunboat in Philadelphia harbor calling for the production of Connor. The commander responded in a return of the same date that Connor was lawfully enlisted and continued, “I have here in Court the said John Connor ... to do and be subject to, whatsoever the Court shall consider in his behalf.” On consideration of the matter the Court remanded Connor to his commander.

[Joseph Hopkinson,] Considerations On The Ablition Of The Common Law In The United States 50-58 (Philadelphia, William P. Farrand And Co. 1809)

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Some authors (Hopkinson), building on Blackstone, pointed out that statutes would inevitably require interpretation.

Supreme Court Minute Book (Entries Of Feb. 16-20, 1807)

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With the prisoners present, the Court “fully examined and attentively considered,” on an item-by-item basis, “the testimony on which they were committed,” held it insufficient, and ordered their discharge.

Letter From Buckner Thurston To Harry Innes (Feb. 18, 1807)

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With the prisoners present, the Court “fully examined and attentively considered,” on an item-by-item basis, “the testimony on which they were committed,” held it insufficient, and ordered their discharge.