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1 item extracted from ADM 1/67. Tristan da Cunha flag used by Jonathan Lambert, an...
Catalogue reference: EXT 11/157
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from ADM 1/67. Tristan da Cunha flag used by Jonathan Lambert, an... dating from 1810 in the series Public Record Office: Items extracted to boxed storage from various classes of records.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1810
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1 item extracted from ADM 1/67. Tristan da Cunha flag used by Jonathan Lambert, an American who went to the island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic in 1810 to establish an independent settlement. He returned to America in 1812 leaving his man Tomaso Curry on the island. The British Navy occupied the island in 1816 and the flag was sent to the Admiralty with a letter from Rear Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm dated 26 January 1817 with a declaration by Curry that it had never been officially flown.
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- Open Document, Open Description
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