| Description | Settlement examination dated 5 December 1816 of Matthew Samples. When he was about 13 years old, he was apprenticed to Messrs Ellison and Barton of Liverpool for five years. In the last year of his apprenticeship he was pressed on board HMS Northumberland, and since that time has done nothing to gain a settlement elsewhere
With a covering letter dated 12 January 1817. Samples, a vagrant, is now confined in the House of Correction at Northallerton |