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Impressment! The Boston Patriot, a few days since, asserted, that Samuel Littlefield, of Wells, after being impressed on board of an English armed vessel, had escaped there from by flight, and not by the discharge of his captors. In contradiction to this, Mr. Littlefield, has published a note in the last Kennebunk paper, wherein he says- "That on my return to the Island of Tobago, in the sch'r (which impressed me) I was immediately discharged from her through the influence of an American merchant, and that I did not make my escape, as stated in the Boston Patriot; And I further certify and say that the Lieutenant who impressed me, after having given me my discharge, went on board two American vessels in order to procure me a passage home to the United States. Published in the Boston Weekly Messenger - August 20, 1813 .
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