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Haltwhistle Estimates

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Thomas? Hewetson? Partly illegible

An Account and Estimate of the damage done by the late great
and dreadful Flood in the River South Tyne in Northumberland
in November 1771 to Isaac Waugh of Haltwhistle in the parish
of Haltwhistle in the said County farmer      £   s  d

To his Winter Corn then in ye ground
washed away & ye soil upon wch it
was sown swept away upon a
moderate Computation his Damage in
ye account cannot amount to less
than                                         15. 00. 0
his meadow ground by ye breaking
ye banks of ye Burn is much of it
covered with sand & Stones & Several
acres of it still under water The
Damage sustained on this account
cannot be less upon a moderate
Computation than                              5. 00. 0

               Total of his Damage
              Valued & Estimated by us       20. 00. 0

        Thomas Hewetson        His near
                                neighbours
        his + mark             & who were
                               ye witnesses
        John Ellit             to ye above
                               facts set
                                forth

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