Folios 465-466: John Gourly, Regulating Captain, Aberdeen. States the case of Alexander...

Folios 465-466: John Gourly, Regulating Captain, Aberdeen. States the case of Alexander Valentine, aged 20, Able Seaman, impressed by Lieutenant Guison on 23 October 1813 and sent from Aberdeen with other newly raised men to Leith on 1 November 1813. Advises that when he regulated Valentine he did not believe him to be of the age requisite for a Mate and that Valentine's father produced the enclosed certificate No 1 which he believes to have been altered. As a consequence explains he wrote to the Parish Church for correct information and received the enclosed certificate No 2. Advises that he has also received information from a friend of Alexander Valentine that suggest that the information contained in the enclosed petition from Valentine's father is not correct.

Folios 467-468: enclosure with folios 465-466: Petition, dated 25 October 1813 at Aberdeen, of Alexander Valentine, Labourer at Seaton Brick Works, near Aberdeen. Requests the release of his son Alexander Valentine, Mate of the Two Sisters of the River Don employed in carrying coals for the brick kilns. States that is an established fact that Valentine has served on the barque as a Mate even though not of the age required by law and that his wife and elderly mother are dependent upon his earnings.

Folio 469: enclosure with folios 465-466: Certificate No 1, copy of extracts from the Register of Baptisms of the parish of Old Machar and attested at Old Aberdeen on 18 November 1802 , signed by James Paterson, Sessions Clerk. States that Alexander Valentine and his spouse Isabel Stephen, had a son, Alexander, baptised on March 3 1791 in Old Aberdeen by Mr Skene Ogilvy, Minister.

Folio 470: enclosure with folios 465-466: Certificate No 2, copy of extract from the Register of Baptisms of the parish of Old Machar and attested at Old Aberdeen on 25 October 1813 , signed by John Gray, Sessions Clerk. States that Alexander Valentine and his spouse Isabel Stephen, had a son, Alexander, baptised on March 3 1793 in Old Aberdeen by Mr Skene Ogilvy, Minister and witnessed by Robert Lay and William Thomson.