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Damages claims from Hexham

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George

William

An Estimate of the Damage done by the late dreadful Flood in the
South and North Tyne in Northumberland which happened
in the night between Saturday the  16th and Sunday the 17th day of
November 1771, to John Bewick, late of Tyne Green near Hexham
in the said County, Carpenter and Wheelwright who and his Wife
and three children saved their lives by getting in to the Loft of his
dwellinghouse, after remaining there the whole night expecting
every moment that they with the house would be swept away by
the Rage of the said flood & the House is much injured and put
into a condition unfit to live in,that he and his family are thereby
banished from the said house, and their distressed condition must
have been greatly increased if Bacon Wastell Esqr had not in
a few days had generously accomodated him with a House to put
his wife and family into.
To several Panels of Ash,Oak, Elm, Alder and Hazell          ]
Wood by him provided and prepared to be made into Ox         ]
Bows  Rakes Forkstaffs Strickles and other necessary      ]
Husbandry Implements and Several Implements of               ]
Husbandry of that sort finished and others in part made and  ]
formed and some of his untensils belonging to his business   ]  £  S  D
of a Wheelwright and Carpenter all swept away by the         ]  3  0  0
Water by which the said John Bewick is damaged at least      ]
to the value of                                              ]

We whose names are hereunto Subscribed do hereby certify that we
very well know the above named John Bewick and believing him to be
a very honest Industrious Man and that we have also examined the
Account and Estimate above written and believe the same to be a true
and moderate Account and Estimate of the damage the said John
Bewick Sustained by the late dreadful Flood and that we have reason
to believe that the said John Bewick by such loss will be reduced to
no small difficulty and distress to Support his Credit and that it
would be a real Charity done to give him refiief on amount thereof.
As witness our hands this 26th Day of December 1771,
Geo: Busby Minister of Hexham
B W Wastell
Wm Noble
John White

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