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Folios 27-28: Benjamin Carter, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Reports on a number...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1655/12

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This record is about the Folios 27-28: Benjamin Carter, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Reports on a number... dating from 1809 Nov 18 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 1/1655/12
Date
1809 Nov 18
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Folios 27-28: Benjamin Carter, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Reports on a number of cases; John Simpkins entered with Lieutenant Evans as a Boy Volunteer, aged 18; John Hughes aged 25 from Anglesea was impressed by Lieutenant Rees; John Jones aged 18 from Chester was entered with Lieutenant Evans; Richard Wheatland, aged 35 from London was impressed by Lieutenant Evans; William Cooper aged 30 years from New York was impressed by Lieutenant Evans; Daniel Corbon aged 26 years from Philadelphia; Reynold Wisely aged 21 years from Eastern Shore, Virginia impressed by Lieutenant Pogson.

Folio 29-30: enclosure in folios 27-28. Letter dated 13 November 1809 from John Carter, Clerk to the Magistrates, Coventry to the Admiralty stating that John Simpkins was an Apprentice and Indentured to William Bradshaw a watchmaker.

Folio 31: enclosure in folios 27-28. Certificate dated 8 November 1809 before Samuel Whitwell, Justice of the Peace in Coventry that John Simpkins had absconded.

Folio 32-33: enclosure in folios 27-28. Letter dated 10 November 1809 from Thomas Morton in support John Hughes who seeks release in exchange for two Landsmen as he has a wife and small children in Anglesea.

Folios 34-35: enclosure in folios 27-28. Letter dated 13 November 1809 from John Owen, Brazier, of Chester in support of John Jones, his legal Apprentice, who absconded and whose return he now seeks.

Folios 36-37: enclosure in folios 27-28. Petition dated 14 November 1809 by Richard Wheatland pleads his case for release having never been a seaman and is a Freeman of the City of London, with a supporting oath for his good character by Malcolm Dunnett.

Folio 38: enclosure in folios 27-28. Protection Certificate dated 25 October 1807 by David Gelston, Collector of the District of New York, that William Cooper is a Citizen of the United States of America.

Folio 39: enclosure in folios 27-28. Admiralty Certificate of Discharge dated 20 June 1807 [Year not clear] signed by Captain James Athol Wood, HMS Latona, Halifax Harbour for William Cooper being an American.

Folio 40: enclosure in folios 27-28. Printed Certificate dated 27 March 1809 from S Bullock, Deputy Collector of the District of Savannah that Daniel Corbon Jun, an American Seaman is a Citizen of the United States of America.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap C152
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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