• Reference
    W1/5237
  • Title
    Oke Millett, surgeon, Marazion, to Samuel Whitbread II
  • Date free text
    9 April 1810
  • Production date
    From: 1810 To: 1810
  • Scope and Content
    Robert Jeffery, inhumanly abandoned on a desert island by Captain Lake, originally came from Polperro. Lieutenant Millett of HMS Aboukir told writer that Jeffery escaped from Sombrero in an American ship, and his friends at Polperro had since heard from him. Mr Job of Polperro, or the Collector of Looe, can enquire if this is true.
  • Level of description
    item