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Catalogue reference: ADM 1/8766/75
Transferred to ADM 1/8998
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Folios 241-242: David Hotchkis, HMS Puissant, Spithead. He is sending copies of enrollment...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1915/104
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This record is about the Folios 241-242: David Hotchkis, HMS Puissant, Spithead. He is sending copies of enrollment... dating from 1796 Sept 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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Date (When the record was created)
- 1796 Sept
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Folios 241-242: David Hotchkis, HMS Puissant, Spithead. He is sending copies of enrollment of 2 Men (not present). The originals have been lost and he asks for the copies to be attested by the Regulating Officer to enable them to be paid. He asks for them to be sent to Sir William Henry Douglas for signing. Thomas White, Landsman, has run from HMS Puissant. He may have gone to Whitchurch, an inland place where there is no Officer to send details to. He includes his description. He was born at Whitchurch, is 50 years of age, and was formerly an Excise Officer from which post he was discharged due to improper conduct. He asks for directions to enable him to be apprehended.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap H347
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Letters from Captains, Surnames H: 1796, numbers 201-384. (Described at item level)
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Folios 241-242: David Hotchkis, HMS Puissant, Spithead. He is sending copies of enrollment...
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