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Biography:

1. Thomas Freeman (2) was Drawing and Setting Stoves (Gloom stoves for drying gunpowder) earning 2/-d per day (Supply 5/224 dated the 30th January 1806). At that date he had 1 year's service. 2. Supply 5/226 dated the 18th June 1807, recorded that he was then working as a Warder, still earning 2/-d per day, and was allowed to watch in turn. This was also the case in 1808, according to a Return dated the 23rd August of that year (Supply 5/227). 3. Supply 5/229 dated the 29th August 1812, confirmed that he was still employed as a Warder, with the same rate of pay per day as in the previous notes.