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Folios 47-48: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer Gravesend. States the cases...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2531/13
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This record is about the Folios 47-48: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer Gravesend. States the cases... dating from 1812 June 4 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 June 4
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Folios 47-48: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer Gravesend. States the cases of two men: John Boswell and Caesar Pike. Outlines his reasons why John Boswell, aged 18, impressed on 23 May by Lieutenant Petley out of the Price Regent from Jamaica inward bound off Gravesend and claiming to be an American citizen and Caesar Pike, aged 23, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, impressed on 20 May 1812 by Lieutenant Jordan out of the Carnatic, an East Indiaman inward bound off Gravesend, should not be released.
Folios 49: enclosure with folios 47-48: United States of America Protection Certificate for John Boswell, issued by William Williams, Public Notary for the State of New York, 22 March 1810.
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- Cap S416
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Letters from Captains, Surnames S: 1812, numbers 401-600. (Described at item level)
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