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Folios 168-169: William Charleton, Regulating Captain, North Shields. Reports on...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1641/52

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This record is about the Folios 168-169: William Charleton, Regulating Captain, North Shields. Reports on... dating from 1805 Apr 20 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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ADM 1/1641/52
Date
1805 Apr 20
Description

Folios 168-169: William Charleton, Regulating Captain, North Shields. Reports on the case of David Watts, impressed at North Shields on 3 April 1805, and whose discharge has been applied for by Mr Erving, American Consul. States that David Watts is a native of Scotland and has a wife in Falmouth as is proven by the enclosed letter which he was writing to her at the time of his impressment. Says that he did not keep the American Certificate of Citizenship which David Watts was carrying,

Folios 170-171: enclosure with folios 168-169. Letter unfinished and unsigned, dated 3 April 1805, said to be from David Watts in South Shields to his wife in Falmouth.

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Former department reference
Cap C52
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Language
English
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Letters from Captains, Surnames C: 1805, numbers 1-199. (Described at item level)

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