Folios 242-243: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's enquiry...

Folios 242-243: Wilson Rathborne, North Shields. Responding to Mr Barrow's enquiry of 29 February, sends details of two men, Thomas Elrington [or Ellrington] and Thomas Nixon. Says Ellrington entered as a volunteer on 22 February with Lieutenant France at Newcastle. He was 'perfectly sober' at the time and said he hoped to get a position as clerk in the Navy. He is 26, tall and fit for service. Nixon was impressed by Lieutenant Liddle, Sunderland, on 21 February, and detained as being an apprentice illegally appointed Mate to protect him from impress. He is serving a second indenture dated 6 December 1810 and has been at sea almost 5 years. He is over 19 and an active young man.

Folios 244-245: enclosure with folios 242-243. Letter dated 27 February 1812 by Mrs E. Nixon, Sunderland, mother of Thomas, who says he is an apprentice, her sole support and comfort, and asks for his discharge on payment of the levy required.

Folio 246: enclosure with folios 242-243. Official deposition of William Marshall, Master of the Argus, of Sunderland, that he had hired Thomas Nixon to be Chief Mate of the ship.