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WAPP: 529

Name: George Lindsay

Birth Date: 00/00/1768

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Sex: M

Marital Status: Single

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Subject: Record of Pay

Document Date: 21/03/1789

PRO Reference: Supply 5/212

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1. George Lindsay was taken on as a Labourer grinding Saltpetre and Charcoal at 1/6d per day (Supply 5/212 dated the 21st March 1789). 2. He was "cutting and planting willow trees, cutting of canal at the new Corning House, removing earth to the Store, unloading barge of coals & charring wood." (Supply 5/213 dated the 18th April 1789). 3. On the 22nd August 1789, he was "marking powder barrels" and this information is repeated in September (Supply 5/213) and again in Supply 5/214 dated the 27th March 1790, as well as in December 1790 (Supply 5/215 dated the 11th December, 1790). 4. Supply 5/214 dated September 1789, recorded that he was 21 years of age, and confirmed that he was employed marking powder barrels. 5. In August and September 1790, he was "in the barges." (Supply 5/215 dated the 14th August 1790). 6. In April to June 1791, he was "weighing powder & marking barrels." (Supply 5/215). 7. Between January and March 1792, he was "in the punts and likewise drawing & setting stoves, loading and shipping gunpowder & stores etc." (Supply 5/215).