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Folios 532-533: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. States the case...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2531/173
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Folios 532-533: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. States the case of two men: William Taylor, aged 21, rated Ordinary Seaman and James Daniels alias James Donalds, aged 21, rated Able Seaman being a Shipwright. Both men were impressed by Lieutenant Petley on 25 August 1812 having been found stowed away on the ship, Brilliant, inward bound off Gravesend.
Folios 534-535: enclosure with folios 523-533. Letter dated 28 August 1812 by Robert Elliot, Stepney Causeway, Commercial Road, to John Barrow at the Admiralty. Encloses an Affidavit for his Apprentice William Taylor, now on HMS Corso. Explains the circumstances of Taylor's arrival in the UK, claiming that he belongs to the Iris which ran aground on a sandbank near Trinidad. Taylor was dispatched with the Mate and four others to procure a craft to take the cargo off the Iris but on their return found the Iris had departed. They returned to Trinidad and procured a passage home from there. Requests William Taylor is discharged.
Folios 536: enclosure with folios 534-535. Affidavit of Robert Elliot, Ship Owner of 11 Stepney Causeway, Stepney, Middlesex, sworn on 28 August 1812 before the Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex. States that William Taylor was bound as his Apprentice of February 1811 for five years to learn the art of a Mariner. Claims that William Simpson, Captain of William Taylor's ship had Taylor's Indenture in his possession. Taylor returned to England from Trinidad on the Brilliant, a West Indiaman, from which he was impressed. Believes Taylor to have only been at sea for 18 months and never before the date of his Indenture, and that he is only 16 years of age.
Folios 537-538: enclosure with folios 532-533. Letter dated 28 August 1812 by [S W Shorloss?], King's Arms, Leadenhall Street, London. Asks what are the steps to procure the of release James Daniels, impressed at Gravesend. States Daniels has respectable friends who would be happy to procure his legal discharge.
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