In 1854, six ships belonging to Carlos Butterfield & Co., loaded with war materiel, cleared at New York for St. Thomas.
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Shortly after Monson moved to Athens, the United States and Danish governments asked him to resolve a dispute known as the Butterfield Claims that had been running since 1854 and 1855, when two ships belonging to Carlos Butterfield & Co., thought to be carrying war materials to Venezuela, were detained at St Thomas, then a Danish colony.