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Catalogue reference: ADM 1/8766/75
Transferred to ADM 1/8998
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Folios 401-402: John Watts, Gore Roads. Reports his arrival with the transport Betsy...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2690/99
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This record is about the Folios 401-402: John Watts, Gore Roads. Reports his arrival with the transport Betsy... dating from 1800 Oct 12 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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- ADM 1/2690/99
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1800 Oct 12
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Folios 401-402: John Watts, Gore Roads.
Reports his arrival with the transport Betsy having touched at Madeira with 3 transports going to the Cape of Good Hope with troops. At Goree island the Betsy was unloaded. No papers are enclosed but mention is made of Lieutenant Patterson who listed the ammunition and guns, the surgeon Mr Forbes and Mr Forbes the commissary of provisions. Governor Tidy sent a statements from the inhabitants of the island who seem pleased with the takeover by the British and determined to repel the French. .
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap W111A
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C21113320/
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ADM 1
Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Letters from Captains, Surnames W: 1800, numbers 1-120. (Described at item level)
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Folios 401-402: John Watts, Gore Roads. Reports his arrival with the transport Betsy...
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