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Folios 236-237: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Transmitting a report on the case...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2422/38

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This record is about the Folios 236-237: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Transmitting a report on the case... dating from 1813 June 28 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 1/2422/38
Date
1813 June 28
Description

Folios 236-237: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Transmitting a report on the case of George Davidson, on board the Transit. He was impressed at Sunderland by Lieutenant Riddle and detained as he had no exemption from impress. He has been two years at sea and will be useful as one of the Carpenter's crew.

Folios 238-239: enclosure with folios 236-237. Letter dated 22 June 1813 from Elizabeth Davidson, widow, requesting that her son George be discharged, and offering to play a sum considered appropriate. She and her family are financialy dependent upon him. One of her other six children had a leg amputated.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cap R196
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19956210/

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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers

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