{
  "title": "Peace: a reported seizure, a circulating account, and an institutional record",
  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "E0",
      "date": null,
      "date_type": "event date unknown",
      "title": "Reported seizure of the brig Peace",
      "source": "Newspaper accounts H012 and X016",
      "observation": "They attribute news to Captain Whitney of Maria and identify Peace, Captain Samuel Allen, Dover–Surinam via Cayenne. The date of seizure is not supplied.",
      "boundary": "Reported event, not an independently verified court finding."
    },
    {
      "id": "E1",
      "date": "1797-05-13",
      "date_type": "internal news dateline",
      "title": "Providence dateline",
      "source": "Dateline printed above H012 and X016",
      "observation": "Both carry Providence, May 13. This is distinct from their publication dates.",
      "boundary": "An internal dateline does not by itself identify the original newspaper or the seizure date."
    },
    {
      "id": "E2",
      "date": "1797-05-18",
      "date_type": "publication date",
      "title": "Gazette of the United States",
      "source": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/RevolutionCrossroads/loc_chronicling_america_1770-1810/resolve/0b97906ad32e269376872934820357fc333151d8/media/sn83025881/1797-05-18_1_3.pdf?download=true",
      "observation": "Prints the seizure account, attributed to Whitney, including the $25,000 valuation and claimed British-port pretext.",
      "boundary": "Earliest version currently admitted to this case record; not necessarily the first publication."
    },
    {
      "id": "E3",
      "date": "1797-05-30",
      "date_type": "publication date",
      "title": "New Hampshire Gazette",
      "source": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/RevolutionCrossroads/loc_chronicling_america_1770-1810/resolve/0b97906ad32e269376872934820357fc333151d8/media/sn83025588/1797-05-30_1_1.pdf?download=true",
      "observation": "Prints corresponding text and additional commentary attributed to Mercury about a bill demanded for remitted funds.",
      "boundary": "Direct copying from H012 is unproven. The annotation itself is not independently confirmed."
    },
    {
      "id": "E4",
      "date": "1797-06-21",
      "date_type": "report date",
      "title": "Secretary of State report",
      "source": "https://dheller.org/Timeline-files/US-American-State-Papers/Foreign-Relations-2.pdf#page=32",
      "observation": "The report explains the use of two Philadelphia newspapers to supplement missing official records. Its annex lists Peace and explicitly cites Gazette of the United States, May 18.",
      "boundary": "The report documents an institutional use of newspaper evidence, not an independent adjudication of Peace."
    },
    {
      "id": "E5",
      "date": "1797-06-22",
      "date_type": "transmission date",
      "title": "Report transmitted to the House",
      "source": "https://dheller.org/Timeline-files/US-American-State-Papers/Foreign-Relations-2.pdf#page=32",
      "observation": "Adams transmits the collection in response to the House resolution of June 10, according to the printed covering message.",
      "boundary": "The collection concerns many captures. It does not establish that this particular story caused the request or a policy change."
    },
    {
      "id": "E6",
      "date": "1797-06-27",
      "date_type": "publication date; contextual branch",
      "title": "Cayenne decree translation and accusation",
      "source": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/RevolutionCrossroads/loc_chronicling_america_1770-1810/resolve/0b97906ad32e269376872934820357fc333151d8/media/sn83025588/1797-06-27_1_3.pdf?download=true",
      "observation": "A translated decree and editorial allegation concern Cayenne and newspaper accounts.",
      "boundary": "The original decree and itemized eight allegations remain missing. No verified legal link to Peace is assigned."
    },
    {
      "id": "E7",
      "date": null,
      "date_type": "outcome unknown",
      "title": "Adjudication, repayment or return",
      "source": null,
      "observation": "No case-matched independent judgment, repayment or release record has been admitted.",
      "boundary": "Unknown is not evidence that nothing happened. The institutional report is not the resolution of the case."
    },
    {
      "id": "E8",
      "date": "1832",
      "date_type": "compilation publication year",
      "title": "American State Papers, Foreign Relations, volume 2",
      "source": "https://dheller.org/Timeline-files/US-American-State-Papers/Foreign-Relations-2.pdf#page=3",
      "observation": "The consulted compilation was published in 1832 and reproduces the dated 1797 documents.",
      "boundary": "Do not label the compilation itself as a newspaper publication in June 1797."
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "a": "E2",
      "b": "E3",
      "type": "shared wording",
      "directed": false
    },
    {
      "a": "E4",
      "b": "E2",
      "type": "explicit source citation",
      "directed": true
    },
    {
      "a": "E5",
      "b": "E4",
      "type": "document transmission",
      "directed": true
    },
    {
      "a": "E6",
      "b": "E0",
      "type": "context only; legal connection unverified",
      "directed": false
    }
  ],
  "review": "Newly inspected the full scans of ASP printed pp.28–29 (PDF pp.32–33); prior admitted newspaper crops and explicit citation retained. No independent second reader.",
  "search": "See peace_search.json and peace_search_review.json for the additional 1796–1805 corpus search.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/llscd/llsp002/llsp002.pdf",
      "consulted_mirror": "https://dheller.org/Timeline-files/US-American-State-Papers/Foreign-Relations-2.pdf",
      "pages": "Printed 28–29, 57, 60, 62; title page for compilation year"
    }
  ],
  "unresolved_identity_leads": [
    {
      "id": "P031",
      "publication_date": "1797-07-17",
      "title": "Peace, Allen, of Providence, listed at Surinam on June 11",
      "note": "The scan supports the name, master surname, home port and Surinam listing. This is a plausible continuation lead; it neither states a release from Cayenne nor establishes the identity beyond doubt.",
      "scan_checked": true,
      "scan_url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/RevolutionCrossroads/loc_chronicling_america_1770-1810/resolve/0b97906ad32e269376872934820357fc333151d8/media/sn83025881/1797-07-17_1_3.pdf?download=true",
      "crop": "evidence/P031_context.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "P032",
      "publication_date": "1797-09-02",
      "title": "Crew of Peace of Providence reported after a capture homeward from Surinam",
      "note": "The scan supports the place and route, but does not name the master or connect the capture to the May Cayenne account. Keep as a possible continuation, not a confirmed second capture of the same vessel.",
      "scan_checked": true,
      "scan_url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/RevolutionCrossroads/loc_chronicling_america_1770-1810/resolve/0b97906ad32e269376872934820357fc333151d8/media/sn83025881/1797-09-02_1_3.pdf?download=true",
      "crop": "evidence/P032_2.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "P033",
      "publication_date": "1797-09-08",
      "title": "Peace, Allen, of New York, reported captured from Martinique",
      "note": "The port and route differ from the May account. Matching name and surname alone do not resolve vessel identity.",
      "scan_checked": true,
      "scan_url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/RevolutionCrossroads/loc_chronicling_america_1770-1810/resolve/0b97906ad32e269376872934820357fc333151d8/media/sn83025881/1797-09-08_1_3.pdf?download=true",
      "crop": "evidence/P033_1.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "P034",
      "publication_date": "1797-09-11",
      "title": "Corresponding Peace/Allen/New York account appears again",
      "note": "The scan repeats the Porto Rico condemnation account, with Martinico as the departure place. This is another publication, not an independent confirmation or an established continuation of the Cayenne case.",
      "scan_checked": true,
      "scan_url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/RevolutionCrossroads/loc_chronicling_america_1770-1810/resolve/0b97906ad32e269376872934820357fc333151d8/media/sn83025881/1797-09-11_1_3.pdf?download=true",
      "crop": "evidence/P034_0.jpg"
    }
  ]
}