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Folios 277-278: Terence O'Neill, Poole. Acknowledging receipt of Admiralty letter...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2255/89
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This record is about the Folios 277-278: Terence O'Neill, Poole. Acknowledging receipt of Admiralty letter... dating from 1803 Mar 26 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)
- 1803 Mar 26
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Folios 277-278: Terence O'Neill, Poole. Acknowledging receipt of Admiralty letter with query conconcerning Thomas Simmick, who had been impressed but has since been liberated on security. He is still investigating the man's claims to protection. Repeats an earlier request to establish a Rendezvous at Swanage, where many prime seamen are landed and shipped. PS again asking for a tender instead of a hired vessel.
Folio 279: enclosed with folios 277-278. Cover letter for enclosures he had forgotten to send earlier.
Folios 280-282: enclosed with folios 277-278. Letter dated 24 March 1803 by John Culcross, of Sackwith Street, saying that Thomas Simmick rents a passage house property from him in Poole Harbour, which during the last war was considered a protection from the impress.He encloses a letter on folio 281, from Simmick, saying that while in his usual employ in the Wytch, passage boat lying at Poole Quay, he was taken by the press gang under Captain O'Neill, and though he is now free, he must appear before them again next week as they do not consider the passage boat is sufficient to protect him.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap O114
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