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Folios 286-287: James Colnett, HMS Glatton, Downs. Reply to letter dated 24 September...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1635/35

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ADM 1/1635/35
Date
1803 Sept 25
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Folios 286-287: James Colnett, HMS Glatton, Downs. Reply to letter dated 24 September 1803 to report on the Contents of 18 Boxes and 5 Boxes of seeds received on board HMS Glatton in Sydney. The following was provided with the boxes:- Articles put on HMS Glatton for the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks Bart. President of the Royal Society.

Folio 288: enclosure with folios 286-287. Letter dated 11 April 1803 by James Colnett, HMS Glatton, Sydney, New South Wales, to Mr George Curtoys, Fifth Lieutenant HMS Glatton. Appointment as Acting Lieutenant and Commander of HM Armed Tender the Lady Nelson.

Folios 289-290: enclosure with folios 286-287. Letter dated 12 April 1803 by James Colnett, HMS Glatton, Sydney, New South Wales, to John Taris. Appointing him as Acting Junior Lieutenant on HMS Glatton.

Folios 291-292: enclosure with folios 286-287. Letter dated 29 March 1803 by James Colnett, HMS Glatton, Sydney, New South Wales, to John Bowen, Junior Lieutenant, HMS Glatton. To act as Commandant of a settlement on the south part of this coast to counter any foreign projects or plans.

Folios 293-294: enclosure with 286-287. Letter dated 26 September 1803 by Alexander Forsyth, Acting Lieutenant, HMS Buffalo, to the Admiralty. Memorial (service from 22 November 1802 to Date).

Folios 295-296: enclosure with 286-287. Letter dated 17 May 1803 by Sir Henry Brown Hayes. Memorial and Protest against an Arbitrary, Cruel and Illegal order of Governor King. Dated (with two copies of letters to Captain James Colnett.

Folios 297-298: enclosure with 286-287. Letter dated 31 March 1803 by James Colnett, HMS Glatton, Sydney, New South Wales, to Mr John Jameson, HMS Glatton. Appointing John Jamison Surgeon on HMS Glatton replacing Jacob Mountgauelt? who has been appointed by Governor King as Surgeon to the Colony.

Folios 299-300: enclosure with 286-287. Letter dated 29 March 1803 by James Colnett, HMS Glatton, Sydney, New South Wales, to George Curtoys, Master's Mate, HMS Glatton. Appointing him Acting Fifth Lieutenant to replace Lieutenant John Bowen.

Folio 301: enclosure with folios 286-287. Letter dated 26 September 1803 by Alexander Forsyth, HMS Glatton, to The Admiralty. Covering note for the enclosed Memorial.

Folio 302: enclosure with 286-287. Admiralty note dated 5 March 1803 (mentions two appointments and the Forsyth Memorial).

Folio 303: enclosure with 286-287. Certificate that no convict carried out in HMS Glatton returned in HMS Glatton and that only one escaped in Rio de Janeiro. Signed A Stewart 2nd Lieutenant, Peter Mitchell 3rd Lieutenant, William Thomson 4th Lieutenant, Mr William [Millar?] Master, John Jameson Surgeon, John Kellock Gunner and James Robinson Purser.

Folio 304: enclosure with 286-287. Certificate that subsequent to 11 May 1803 the day Peter Thomason, a convict carried out in HMS Glatton, was disembarked from her. We saw him on shore in Sydney at Government Labour. Dated 28 September 1803. Signed:- [?] Boatswain, Edward Pilling, Sergeant of Marines, and Benjamin Grice, Boatswain's Mate.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap C436
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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