| Description | Letter addressed to the Harbour Trustees of Aberdeen: "Gentlemen, your petitioner, an old Ship Master, who served his time out of the place, and who has a young family to provide for solicits your interest in placing him, as Assistant to Captain Crane at the New Pier, is, forty two years of age and can get a character from several (?) he has served, is in hopes if placed in the situation to be able to merit the approbation of the Trustees and all placed above him, by that strict attention to his duty by night and day; your humble petitioner will ever be bound to pray. Well Street, 22nd May 1833, Duncan Reid." |