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Folios 197-198: James Slade, HMS Experiment, Falmouth. He has been asked to comment...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2530/61
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This record is about the Folios 197-198: James Slade, HMS Experiment, Falmouth. He has been asked to comment... dating from 1812 Apr 6 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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- 1812 Apr 6
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Folios 197-198: James Slade, HMS Experiment, Falmouth. He has been asked to comment on John Hamilton who was impressed on 30 March. He sayes he is an powerful young man and healthy. He sayes that MR Young has said that Hamilton has been to sea before including on trips to the Mediterranean, Brazil, America and the West Indies, which voyage would have taken about 2 years. Hamilton sayes he is 18 years old but he looks older.
Folio 199-200: enclosure with folios 197-198. Letter dated 30 March 1812 by Lieutenant Andrew Young, Falmouth, about John Hamilton who was impressed and put aboard HMS Experiment. He records that at the age of 14 Hamilton was apprenticed to a Joiner and Cabinet maker named Benjamin Chelew. Hamilton decided he would prefer seafaring and so his master released him and so he went to sea. However, he gave it up because he found he was unable to cope with the arduous work required and so he returned to his Master for three years in order to complete his apprenticeship and there he remained under the terms of his indenture until he was impressed. Young reports that he has asked for affidavits attesting to these matters. He also asks that Hamilton be released.
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Letters from Captains, Surnames S: 1812, numbers 202-400. (Described at item level)
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