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Folios 151-152: Stephen Seymour, HMS Arab, New York. Is sending this despatch with...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2493/67
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This record is about the Folios 151-152: Stephen Seymour, HMS Arab, New York. Is sending this despatch with... dating from 1796 Apr 10 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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- 1796 Apr 10
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Folios 151-152: Stephen Seymour, HMS Arab, New York. Is sending this despatch with the packet Cartaret as it may reach England before he does. Reports his arrival off Sandy Hook on 4 April, delivered the despatches to Consul General Phineas Bond in Philadelphia the following day. He has come to New York to get a new Foremast. The Consul has requested that he delay his departure for a few days as he may be able to carry important despatches home. Encloses a duplicate of his last letter from the Island of Tercera [Terceira].
Folio 153: enclosed with folios 151-152. Stephen Seymour, HMS Arab, off Angra, Island of Tercera, 1 March 1796. The state and condition of his ship.
Folios 154-155: [Duplicate of folios 149-150].
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Letters from Captains, Surnames S: 1796, numbers 1-149. (Described at item level)
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