Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on 47 shipwrights and 35 carpenters sent to Sheerness, very suspicious and difficulty in assuring them of freedom from impress; quality of Captain Cheetham of hired ship Sally and his knowledge of navigation of the Baltic and Elsinore and Copenhagen, may be useful if any force is sent there in the spring
17 Jan 1807, Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on 47 shipwrights and 35 carpenters sent to Sheerness, very suspicious and difficulty in assuring them of freedom from impress; quality of Captain Cheetham of hired ship Sally and his knowledge of navigation of the Baltic and Elsinore and Copenhagen, may be useful if any force is sent there in the spring
Record Details
| Item reference: | MRK/101/2/54 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1807 |
| Creator: | Vashon, James |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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