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Folios 505-506: Edmund Crawley, HMS Lion, Portsmouth Roads. Received yesterday the...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1621/215
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This record is about the Folios 505-506: Edmund Crawley, HMS Lion, Portsmouth Roads. Received yesterday the... dating from 1796 July 17 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1796 July 17
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Folios 505-506: Edmund Crawley, HMS Lion, Portsmouth Roads. Received yesterday the letter of 21 June, addressed to The Downs. Sends a list of the men requested, with the circumstances relating to each of them. These men expressed a wish to volunteer in service when they arrived on board HMS Lion on 21 May. He has omitted Alexander Dixon, who now refuses to become a volunteer, as he has requested friends to procure him a discharge. If no discharge is granted, Captain Crawley hopes that he will be included in the bounty list.
Folios 507-508: enclosure with folios 505-506. Edmund Crawley. List of men on HMS Lion entitled to bounty, with name of the ship impressed from and the date pressed (all 1796): George Liddle, Royal Over, Hamburg, 4 May; George Montgomery, Fair American, New York, 9 May; David Simmons, no ship, 30 April; Thomas Reid, Anatolia, London, 11 May; Richard Boug (alias Jonathon Bouger), no ship, 3 May; Thomas Smith, Mercury, New York, 11 May; Alexander Arroll, Mayflower, South Shields, 7 May; Jonathon Orr (alias Jonathon Young), Rath, Leith, 9 May; John Glendenning, Coldstream Packet, Berwick, 9 May.
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