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Blood in the Wear: The Sunderland Sailors' Strike and the North Sands Massacre of August 1825
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This record is about the Folios 122-123: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Requested to... dating from 1811 Oct 13 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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Folios 122-123: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Requested to advise on the impressment of George Wharton, now on board the El Corso, who was taken on 3 October by Lt Jordan, having stowed away aboard the Caesar. He is 5'6" and about 18 years old, rated ordinary. He claimed to have been at sea only about 10 months, but this appears doubtful. Admiralty note on rear says to order a discharge.
Folios 124-125: enclosure with folios 122-123. Statement from Thomas Greenwell, of Sunderland, 10 October 1811, shipowner, and affidavit that Wharton was bound apprentice to him on 29 January 1811 for three years.
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
Letters from Captains, Surnames S: 1811, numbers 1101-1303. (Described at item level)
Folios 122-123: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Requested to...
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