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Folios 280-281: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool Bay. Captain Robert Mends...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1651/105
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This record is about the Folios 280-281: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool Bay. Captain Robert Mends... dating from 1808 May 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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- ADM 1/1651/105
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1808 May 17
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Description (What the record is about)
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Folios 280-281: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool Bay. Captain Robert Mends having referred to him the enclosed letters from William Watterson requesting his discharge due to his age. States he was sent from the Rendezvous at the Isle of Man on 20 April 1808 and had been recommended by the Civil Power to Lieutenant Clarke for killing his wife. Has little doubt theat the letter from his wife is a forgery. He is about 50 years of age and is rated Able Seaman
Folios 282-283A: enclosure with folios 280-281. Letter dated 2 May 1808 by Jane Watterson, HM Prison, Isle of White, Ballaugh near Porteron, to William Watterson, HMS Princess, River Mersey. [Letter from wife to husband].
Folios 283B-283C: enclosures with folios 280-281. Letter dated May 1808 by William Watterson, HMS Princess, Liverpool, to the Admiralty. Request a discharge as he 56 years of age with a wife and ten children.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap C370
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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