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Folios 209-210: William Brooking Dolling, HMS Trompeuse, Nore. He reports receiving...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1728/79

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This record is about the Folios 209-210: William Brooking Dolling, HMS Trompeuse, Nore. He reports receiving... dating from 1806 Feb 4 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 1/1728/79
Date
1806 Feb 4
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Folios 209-210: William Brooking Dolling, HMS Trompeuse, Nore. He reports receiving a letter from Captain Seccombe of HMS Utrecht about William Wilkie or Wilkins who claims he was an apprentice to Mr George Bell a ship's master. He reports that Mr Wilkie was impressed by him at Leith on 1 September 1805 but at the time he produced no indenture.

Folios 211-212: enclosure with folios 201-210. Letter dated 14 December 1814 from George Ball in Edinburgh. He mentions that his apprentice William Wilkie, aged about 14, was impressed at Leith by Captain Shortland of HMS Trompeuse. As the vessel sailed the next morning he was unable to present the boy's indenture to the captain, which he now enclose, so that he can be released. He also asks that the indenture document be returned to Mr John Johnson of Edinburgh.

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Cap D98
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English
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