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Folio 377: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Receipt of letter enclosing...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1645/128
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- 1806 Mar 14
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Folio 377: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Receipt of letter enclosing an application from T Barnes for the discharge of John Burns on procuring 2 able bodied men. States that John Burns is a healthy, active man of 19 years and admits he has been at sea some time. In his letter of 21 January [1806] he represented the character of T Barnes, who he now finds is a Midshipman of one of the Liverpool gangs. He is told he procures substitutes by first impressing men and then paying them money to enter as substitutes. This traffic is highly prejudicial to the service.
Folios 378-379: enclosure with folio 377. Letter dated 7 March 1806 from Thomas Barnes, 10, Grafton Street, Liverpool, to William Marsden, Admiralty Office, Liverpool. [?] Leach, Merchant of Liverpool, has asked him to inform the Admiralty that a relative of his named John Burns was impressed and sent on board HMS Princess from the Rendezvous at Liverpool on 6 [March 1806]. he asks for a discharge order on condition of procuring 2 able bodied men as substitutes.
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- Cap C341
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