Supreme Court of the United States February 19, 1817 (Beverly v. Brooke)

Mr. Chief Justice Marshall

delivered the opinion of the court.

The declaration in this cause states, that the defendant “ was master of the brig Sophila, then in the county of Alexandria, and bound on a voyage from thence to Savannah, in the state of Georgia, and from Savannah to New-York, in the state of New-York, and from thence to such other place or places as he, the said defendant, might be