Biography:
1. Gray Dixon was initially employed as a Labourer in the Corning House on the 1st April 1792, and paid 1/6d per day (Supply 5/216 dated the 31st July 1792).
2. He was transferred to refining and melting Saltpetre by February 1793 (Supply 5/216 dated the 28th February 1793) and was still in that position in September 1793 (Supply 5/216), December, 1794 (also Supply 5/216), and July 1795 according to Supply 5/217.
3. Robert Coleman, Clerk of the Cheque, recorded in his Minute Book on the 23rd April 1793, that Dixon had deserted his watch for half an hour. He was chequered (fined) 1 day's pay, and ordered off the watch "for present."
4. Dixon had enlisted as a Private in the Volunteer Company on the 7th May 1794 (Supply 5/219).
5. According to Winters (p.45), Coleman reported on the 24th January 1795, that Dixon, watchman, "had seen two men on the Corning House platform at 4 o'clock in the morning" but that "he could not get over, the water being low and the punt froze, he called them and they, he supposed, went away, as he saw no more of them."
