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Letters 109-110 John Collogan & Sons, Thenerife to Robert James enclosing the invoice for 100 pipes of wine shipped to India on the Pigot and regarding Captain Richardson clandestinely receiving goods aboard his ship at Santa Cruz
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ff 257-258, 2 copies of the invoice for 100 pipes of wine shipped aboard the Pigot
Letter 60 Charles Thomas Coggan on behalf of the Committee of Shipping to Robert James giving the names of new ships' mates to be sworn in
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Edne Witts Smith, Chief Mate, Earl of Ashburnham; Benjamin Jones, Second Mate, Clive; Richard Thoresby, Second Mate, Prince of Wales; Henry Hinde Pelly, Fourth Mate, Prince of Wales; Roger Palmer, Third Mate, Hardwicke; William Hall, Third Mate, Houghton; Offley Smith, Fourth Mate, Winchelsea.
Letters 112-113 Petition of John Clark, late Captain of the Company's Forces on the island of St Helena and also one of the Company's Council for the said Island to be allowed a pension
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Enclosed with the letter is a plan of Captain Clark's House at St Helena with the certificates of John Bland, Master Mason, and John Robinson, Carpenter. Committee of Correspondence to examine and report.