WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. In July to September 1792, William Bond was working as a Labourer earning 1/6d per day "in the punts, setting & drawing stoves." In September 1792, he then replaced Edward Reyley "mixing composition", and was still mixing composition between February and March 1793, as well as August to September, 1793. 2. Robert Coleman, Clerk of the Cheque, reported that on the night of Sunday, the 17th February 1793, William was not on his watch and finally arrived at 10.00 p.m. - drunk. He was chequered (fined) one day's pay and "ordered off watch for the present" (Winters, p.37) 3. In January to August of 1794 he was "drawing & setting stoves & in the punts.", and had enlisted as a Private in the Volunteer Company on the 7th May 1794 (Supply 5/219). 4. From December 1794 to July 1795, he was working in the Corning House (Supply 5/219).