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Folios 182-183: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's enquiry...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2418/51

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This record is about the Folios 182-183: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's enquiry... dating from 1812 Feb 15 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 1/2418/51
Date
1812 Feb 15
Description

Folios 182-183: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's enquiry of 12 February, re William Preston, now aboard the Eliza tender. Returns the enclosures [not now present]. Preston was impressed by Lieutenant Barwick, commander of the Eliza, on 25 January, and detained for the Service due to a report, supposed to be 'malicious' from Joseph Kittier, Master of the Providence of Lymington, claiming that Preston was a British subject. However, the man has shown Rathborne his discharge from the Poitriers[?] saying he was a native of America.

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Cap R67
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