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Folio 208: Richard Jones, Sea Fencibles, Swansea. Is sending a letter from Lieutenant...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1993/88
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This record is about the Folio 208: Richard Jones, Sea Fencibles, Swansea. Is sending a letter from Lieutenant... dating from 1804 Apr 16 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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- 1804 Apr 16
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Folio 208: Richard Jones, Sea Fencibles, Swansea. Is sending a letter from Lieutenant Sawyer of the Pontyn division. He recommends Sawyer and says without his diligence the smugglers would never have been caught and their depot and cellars discovered.
Folio 209: enclosure with folio 208. Letter dated 15 April 1804 by [Jason] Sawyer, to Richard Jones Sea Fencibles, Swansea. On Friday, he went with Francis Bevan Customs House at Oxwich with Sea Fencibles to High Way where cellars were discoved full of spirits along with 400 anchors [of spirits]. He commends his men.
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- Cap J104
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