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Folios 643-644: Benjamin Carter, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Response to a request...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1656/137
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- ADM 1/1656/137
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1810 Mar 5
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Folios 643-644: Benjamin Carter, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Response to a request to state the case of two men. John McLeod, aged 27, was imprest by Lieutenant Clarke on the 8 November 1809. He said he was Master of the Robert Brown of Stornaway however the Register showed Angus Campbell was appointed Master 21 July 1809 and still was at the time of his imprest. Hugh Evans, aged 18, entered as a volunteer Landsman and was born in Liverpool, he declared he was an Apprentice. States 9 Master Riggers, full names given, have protections granted at the Port which will expire on 11 March 1810 and they have applied for a renewal. Requests to grant Protections to these 9 Master Riggers to ro protect 30 men each subject to the usual provisos.
Folios 645-646: enclosure with folios 643-644. Admiralty note by J Barrow recommending that the proviso in the Protections as recommended by Benjamin Carter be omitted now that the Sea Fencibles is at an end.
Folios 647-648: enclosure with folios 643-644. John McLeod, HMS Salvador del Mundo, Hamoaze, Plymouth to the Admiralty, 1 March 1810. Request to be discharged having been pressed into service a while ago at Liverpool and having a wife and large family who are entirely destitute offers to substitute someone in his place.
Folios 649-650: enclosure with folios 643-644. John Topham, Liverpool to the Admiralty, 1 March 1810. Request to discharge Hugh Evans, who was impressed and is onboard HMS Princess. Provides an affidavit from his Master, on whose behalf he is applying to confirm he is his Apprentice.
Folio 651: enclosure with folios 643-644. Affidavit signed by James Denton before John Clarke, Mayor of Liverpool, 1 March 1810. James Denton is a bricklayer and Hugh Evans, son of Robert Evans, is an apprentice with Indentures dated 1 October 1805 for a term of seven years. He understands he is now on board HMS Princess in the Mersey and requests that his absence is a material loss to his employer and his Indenture is still valid.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap C147
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- English
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