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William Batty served with Nelson as gentleman volunteer on the Boreas for over six years (four years six months and six days as Servant, and one year nine months and twenty-four days as Midshipman). In June 1786 Nelson put him in command of the American schooner Brilliant, impounded for trading in contravention of the Navigation Act (see Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters, I, pp.181 and 184). With the lot is a note by Agnes Batty, Batty's daughter-in-law, dated 1880, recording that he had been forced to leave the Navy through ill-health when still a Midshipman. It has remained in possession of the Batty family to this day.

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