History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine1623-1905With family genealogies . 1809, the firstyear of Madisons administration, the embargo was repealedand the Non-Intercourse Act substituted for it, this last actapplying only to England and France. Nearly every seaport town in the United States sent uprepeated protests and petitions to the Government for therepeal of the embargo, for they were all distressed bj^ its work-ings. A special town meeting in Boothbaj- was called forAugust 22, 1807, to consider the expediency of petitioningthe President to suspend the civil embargo then
History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine1623-1905With family genealogies . 1809, the firstyear of Madisons administration, the embargo was repealedand the Non-Intercourse Act substituted for it, this last actapplying only to England and France. Nearly every seaport town in the United States sent uprepeated protests and petitions to the Government for therepeal of the embargo, for they were all distressed bj^ its work-ings. A special town meeting in Boothbaj- was called forAugust 22, 1807, to consider the expediency of petitioningthe President to suspend the civil embargo then resting uponvessels and ships in ports and harbors throughout the UnitedStates. A committee was chosen, consisting of WilliamMcCobb, Edmund Wilson, Capt. William Maxwell Reed,Amasa Piper and Nicholas T. Knight, to draft a petition, andrecess was taken until five oclock in the afternoon, at which timethey reconvened and the petition was accepted and directed tobe forwarded by the town clerk. It is needless to say that itwent the way of all similar documents of which there was Captain George Reed Arms. BOOTHBAY IN THE WAR OF 1812. 249 At a meeting February 14, 1809, a set of resolutions withpreamble was adopted. A Committee of Safety and Corre-spondence, similar in scope of duties and powers to the one inRevolutionary times, was chosen, consisting of David G. Bowles,William Maxwell Reed, Amasa Piper, Nicholas T. Knight andJohn M. McFarland. A copy of their resolutions was trans-mitted for publication to both the Portland Gazette and Port-land Argus. The war came near breaking out in 1807, when the British50-gun frigate, Leo])ard, attacked the American 38-gun frigate,Chesapeake, on the coast of Viiginia. Some twenty of theAmerican crew were killed or wounded, and four of that crewtaken on pretense that they were deserters from the BritishNavy. England, however, disavowed this act. Again, in May,1811, the English frigate. Little Belt, attacked the Am
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