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Folios 264-265: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Reply to letter...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2532/80
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This record is about the Folios 264-265: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Reply to letter... dating from 1812 Oct 13 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 Oct 13
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Folios 264-265: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Reply to letter dated 12 October 1812 about the Petition in the case of Angus Emerson. He was impressed on the 22 September 1812 by Lieutenant Petley off Gravesend he was found stowed away in the Ship Frederick from Santa Cruz which left on the 20 July 1812 (not Gibraltar as stated in the Petition).
Folios 266-267: enclosure with folios 264-265. Petition by Helen Emerson resident of Greenock, dated 7 October 1812. About her Son Angus Emerson.
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- Cap S684
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Letters from Captains, Surnames S: 1812, numbers 601-725. (Described at item level)
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Folios 264-265: James Keith Shepard, Regulating Officer, Gravesend. Reply to letter...
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