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Folios 337-338: Wilson Rathborne, Regulating Officer, North Shields. Samuel Ward...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2414/126
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This record is about the Folios 337-338: Wilson Rathborne, Regulating Officer, North Shields. Samuel Ward... dating from 1810 Aug 21 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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- 1810 Aug 21
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Folios 337-338: Wilson Rathborne, Regulating Officer, North Shields. Samuel Ward was impressed by Lieutenant Dathan, South Shileds on 26 July 1810 from the Aldborough, John Spurling. He pretended to be deaf and dumb but Dathan heard him speak and he would not open his mouth for the Surgeon.
Folios 339-340: enclosure with folios 337-338. From eight named of Aldborough Overseers. They swear that Samuel Ward had a fever aged six and has been deaf and dumb ever since. he was impressed from a coaster commanded by John Spurling. B.Barns owner asks for his release.
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- Cap R173
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Letters from Captains, Surnames R: 1810, numbers 1-150. (Described at item level)
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Folios 337-338: Wilson Rathborne, Regulating Officer, North Shields. Samuel Ward...
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