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Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on need to be able to direct revenue vessels to protect trade (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/17
Enclosure entitled Keith’s Shoal, in the passage between Cape Bon and the island of Maretimo, surveyed September 1802 (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/48
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on possibility of men deserting from the Norfolk defence ship on convoy to Baltic (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/28
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, suggesting sending Captain Nash to Dundee on impress service (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/49
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on case of seamen impressed from Greenland trade as requested by Mr Moorsom of Whitby (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/37
Captain Grey, regulating Officer, Hull, to Markham, 14 shipwrights have come forward for employ (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/42
Captain Charlton, North Shields, to Markham, having circulated the provisions proposed by the Admiralty for engaging shipwrights, will provide them with certificates for Sheerness (Manuscript)
1807
MRK/101/2/45
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, need for ship for convoy, no news of French frigates, on impress of men from the Greenland fleet and actions taken by masters to avoid impress (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/30
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, asking for the Chapman for convoy service to the Baltic (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/27
J Vashon, Ludlow, to Markham, Admiralty, asking that Lieutenant Holcombe be retained in HMS Naiad (Manuscript)
1803
MRK/101/2/1
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, private, on the capture of 3 vessels by a French privateer, and the need for some vessels to protect trade (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/16
Mr Peake, to Markham, on pay books of shipwrights (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/43
Vashon, Bath, to Markham, on a letter for Captain Campbell at Leith, asking for renewal of leave (Manuscript)
1807
MRK/101/2/56
Enclosure, details of the lugger lately condemned, to be fitted as a privateer (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/22
Admiral Vashon, Leith, to Markham, he has been told by Mr Marsden not to raise a quota of men from the fishermen of Scotland more than one in ten, suggesting more men be raised; extent of smuggling from Scotland to Northumberland; excise vessels too large and remain in port (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/12
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, requesting leave, on the hired ship Norfolk, enclosing a letter from Captain Brodie, on the shoal on which the Athenean was lost (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/47
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on movement of hired ships, difficulty persuading shipwrights they will be protected from impress, and hoping men discharged from hired ships will not be impressed (Manuscript)
1807
MRK/101/2/52
Captain Vashon, Portsmouth, to Markham on the appointments of Lieutenant Dix and Lieutenant Tindale, the latter recommended by Sir E Gower (Manuscript)
1803
MRK/101/2/3
Enclosure, copy of letter from J Westgarth, Custom House Edinburgh, to the collector of customs, Leith, on the purchase of the lugger being fitted out at Dover (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/24
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, petition of men of the Texel for three years pay due, suggest sending them to the Nore to be paid (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/32
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, concern over direction to release 14 seamen impressed from the Volunteer Greenland ship, at request of owner Mr Moorsom, will set a precedent and risk losing all 150 men (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/34
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, on details of the purchase of a lugger to be fitted as a privateer, enclosing information (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/20
Vashon, Leith, to Markham, arrival of crew of Dutch frigate wrecked on the Orkneys, referring to crew of Romney lost on coast of Holland not being treated as prisoners of War (Manuscript)
1807
MRK/101/2/57
Lieutenant Gourley, Texel, Leith Road, to Vashon, with details on smuggling on the coast, names of ports used (Manuscript)
1806
MRK/101/2/15
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