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Folios 214-215: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's request...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2418/58
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This record is about the Folios 214-215: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's request... dating from 1812 Feb 23 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)
- 1812 Feb 23
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Folios 214-215: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's request of 20 February he is sending information on William Potts, now aboard the tender Eliza. Potts was impressed by Lieut. Flinn at North Shields on 10 February and detained as it appeared that the owner of the ship, Anthony Landers, had sailed in her on the voyage to America and thus was protecting one man more than is legally allowed. Says Potts is an active young man, fit for the Navy.
Folios 216-217: enclosure with folios 214-215. Cover letter dated 18 February 1812 by R. Blakiston, Symonds Inn, sending a petition asking their Lordships to discharge Potts.
Folios 218-219: enclosure with folios 216-217. Petition dated 15 February 1812 of Anthony Landers, owner of the brig Peter Waldo, of Shelburn, Nova Scotia, who had arrived in the Tyne on 7 February with a cargo of timber. Swearing that William Potts was regularly appointed Mate of the vessel and that on 10 February was impressed while doing his duty aboard ship.
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- Cap R80
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Folios 214-215: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's request...
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