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Folios 20-21: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Acknowledge receipt...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2531/5
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This record is about the Folios 20-21: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Acknowledge receipt... dating from 1812 May 31 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 May 31
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Folios 20-21: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Acknowledge receipt of enclosures and states the case of James Sanderson, aged 17 or 18, who was brought to the Rendezvous by his father, Richard Sanderson, on 21 May 1812 as he absconded from his Master and refused to return. He has been rated as Boy and is currently on HMS Ceres.
Folios 22-23: enclosure with folios 20-21. Letter dated 28 May 1812 by James Duffin for Thomas Rice, Clare Court, to the Admiralty. Requests the discharge of George Sanderson, aged less than18, apprenticed to Thoms Hill, Master Mariner by an Indenture dated 18 March 1811. Claims George Sanderson absented himself from his duty and his father, a Pilot, placed him a under the care of the Lieutenant of the Impress Service at Gravesend to be detained until he could be returned to his Master; however, he was sent on board HMS Ceres where he is now detained.
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- Cap S407
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Letters from Captains, Surnames S: 1812, numbers 401-600. (Described at item level)
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