• Title
  Item 08: Copy of a letter to the Admiralty from John Fowell, March 1787
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 4895/1/8 (Safe 1/188)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  March 1787
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  411970
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Textual Records - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  Transcription:
  
  Gentn
  Having been informed that my Son Newton Fowell's Share of Prize Money as Midshipman of His Maj. Ship Berwick for taking the Solitaire has been paid into Greenwich Hospital, I beg Leave to represent to you that he is gone in the Kings Service on a Voyage to Botany Bay, which prevents the Possibility of his applying in Person, & therefore I am to request the Favour you will be pleased to order Payment to be made on my Behalf to Mr George Hartwell by Virtue of my Son's Letter of Attorney in my Favour. I am Gentn Your most obed.t hble Servt
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 1206
  Digital order no:a128444
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Fowell, John
  
• Name
  Berwick (Ship)
  Great Britain. Admiralty
  Solitaire (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Prize money--Great Britain.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1609086

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