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Folios 88-89: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. States the case...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2531/30

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This record is about the Folios 88-89: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. States the case... dating from 1812 June 10 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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ADM 1/2531/30
Date
1812 June 10
Description

Folios 88-89: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. States the case of William Tomkins impressed on 27 May 1812 by Lieutenant Robert Jordan from the John of Demerara, where he was found stowed away. He has been sent to the Nore as he produced no documents to prove he was an Apprentice.

Folio 90: enclosure with folios 88-89. Letter dated 6 June 1812 by Capron Herbert Halkeld, Bishopsgate Street Without to the Admiralty. Replying to John Barrow's letter of 5 June 1812, states that William Tomkins was impressed from the John of Lancaster on either 25 or 26 May 1812 and is now on board HMS Corso at Gravesend, awaiting the Admiralty's decision.

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Former department reference
Cap S433
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Labour
Navy
Middle East
Armed Forces (General Administration)
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