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Folios 225-226: John Joyce, HMS Discovery, Kings Channel. Admiral Rowley asks about...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1993/95

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ADM 1/1993/95
Date
1804 Mar 31
Description

Folios 225-226: John Joyce, HMS Discovery, Kings Channel. Admiral Rowley asks about William Bage who arrived as a boy from HMS Zealand. He says he is apprenticed to a knife maker John Barber in Sheffield and he received a Bounty in Hull.

Folio 227: enclosure with folios 225-226. Printed warrant for a disorderly apprentice dated 11 July 1803. James Wilkinson, Constable of Sheffield. John Barber states that William Bage ran away so he should be apprenhended and returned.

Folio 228: enclosure with folios 225-226. Letter dated 22 March 1804 by John Barber, Redford Street, Sheffield. His apprentice left in July and is now aboard HMS Discovery. He followed him to Hull when he absconded but Bage went aboard a ship.

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Former department reference
Cap J111
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Language
English
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