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Reports the appearance of some pirates and states the need for cruisers to protect...
Catalogue reference: CO 23/93/60
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This record is about the Reports the appearance of some pirates and states the need for cruisers to protect... dating from 1835 Apr 23 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bahamas, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 23/93/60
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1835 Apr 23
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Reports the appearance of some pirates and states the need for cruisers to protect islands 'especially as the suppression of the slave trade still prevailing may be expected for a time to induce many desperate and lawless persons to engage in such undertakings'. Encloses newspaper excerpts concerning the sightings and interviews conducted with William Claxton, William Farrington, and John Pinder concerning the employment of the sloop Jane to 'cruise off the Turks Islands for the protection of slave property'. Bahamas, No. 35, Folios 227-233
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 1022/1835
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- Open Document, Open Description
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