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Folios 215-216: Robert Watson., HMS Isis, River Thames. Encloses a list as requested...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2684/79

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ADM 1/2684/79
Date
1797 June 17
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Folios 215-216: Robert Watson., HMS Isis, River Thames. Encloses a list as requested of the Delegates, Deputy Delegates, Committeeman and others who appeared to be the most active in the Mutiny on board HMS Isis. Also encloses a list of 52 men [not enclosed] belonging to HMS Swan who came on board HMS Isis on 13 and 14 June 1797and advises that, James Lockhead, Master, and one of the men, is of the opinion that the men being divided amongst themselves, that a number left HMS Swan, part of which are now on board HMS Isis and the others on board HMS Inspector, to go into the lower Hope thinking that they will get the King's pardon on arrival.

Folio 217-218: enclosure with folios 215-216. Robert Watson, HMS Isis. List of the Delegates, Deputy Delegates, Committee men and others who appeared the most active in the meeting on board HMS Isis.

Delegates: Andrew Bruice, Richard Cox, Robert Dickson [Dixon], Christopher Gregson; Deputy Delegates: Robert Robinson, James Morrain and Alexander Forty;

Committee men: Henry Kelly, William Smith, George Buchanan, John Hayward, Joseph Wootton, Thomas West, George Wendress, Adam Ludlow, Thomas Harvey, Jonathan Dyer, William Burgess, Mark Brady and Peter Clarke (Secretary).

Others who appeared most active in the meeting: George King, Alexander Steel, John Cashir, Joseph Fisher, James Connor, John Green, Charles Smith alias Charles O'Connor, William Taylor, James Waters, John Dawson, John Ricks, Thomas Cattarah, Mark Singleton, John Jones, Valentine Townsend, Timothy Toole, Jeremiah Sullivan, John Richmond.

Men who were most active but who left the ship on 7 June 1797: John Harvey, Mathew Browness, William Burke, William Goldfinch, John Robinson (Deputy Delegate), John Everill, William Read.

Royal Marines who have been conspicuous in assisting Seamen in HMS Isis in their rebellious proceedings: Sergeant Thomas Waterbeck. Corporal Samuel Jenkins, Private Peter Vanstocken on board HMS Repulse, Privates Samuel Hipkin, Thomas Rayner, George Smith, George Smith, John Beverstock, Samuel Mabbotts.

Folio 219: enclosure with folios 215-216. 215-216. Undated letter by George Buchanan to Captain Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander in Chief in the River Thames. Offers, as one of the men on HMS Isis, to name the people he knows to have been the most principally concerned in the business from the beginning and asks for mercy and a pardon from His Majesty.

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Cap W90
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