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Folios 267-268: Hassard Stackpoole, HMS Statira, Latitude 22 degrees 21' North, Longitude...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2531/90
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This record is about the Folios 267-268: Hassard Stackpoole, HMS Statira, Latitude 22 degrees 21' North, Longitude... dating from 1812 May 27 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 267-268: Hassard Stackpoole, HMS Statira, Latitude 22 degrees 21' North, Longitude 64 degrees 18' West. Encloses a Protection dated 6 October 1807 for Peter Nelson, one of several deserters from transport ships in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes. Peter Nelson had originally deserted from HMS Minerva in the Cove of Cork and joined the Cork Convoy bound for Barbadoes where he rejoined HMS Minerva and then deserted for a second time. Nelson was impressed on shore, after a fight, by Lieutenant Charles Payne, 2nd Officer of HMS Statira and at the time did not have any Protection or American citizenship papers on him. Also mentions Lieutenant Barker, Agent of the Transport Ships and Master of the Minerva who claims that he has known Nelson eight years, that he was born in Liverpool and concludes, therefore, that Nelson has clandestinely procured the Protection and is returning it to the Admiralty.
Folios 269-270: enclosure with folios 267-268. Protection, for Peter Nelson, 6 October 1807.
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