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Folios 281-282: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. States the case...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2531/95
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This record is about the Folios 281-282: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. States the case... dating from 1812 June 21 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 21
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Folios 281-282: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. States the case of John Roberts, who was impressed 12 June 1812 by Lieutenant Jordan who found him stowed away on the [Junior] inward bound off Gravesend. Believes that John Roberts, who it claimed is the Apprentice and Carpenter's Mate of William Dusant of Deptford, Carpenter on the Earl of Lansdown and left the ship with permission, has actually absconded.
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