Impressed Sailor James KIDD * Hopes Friends will Seeks his Release from the Brig Grasshopper Haverhill, Massachusetts Resident Forced into King's Navy The Essex Register Salem, Massachusetts August 29, 1810 Back to Old War News Back to Old Massachusetts News Back to Old Ads Back to the Archives Back to the Front Page

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* The British impressment of American sailors was one of the causes of the War of 1812. American sailors were forcibly seized and made to serve in the British Navy. Naturally, this didn't go over too well with the Americans.   Back

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