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Estimate of loss for Nicholas Maughan of Allendale

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Nicholas Maughan

An Estimate of the Damage done by -- the late Dreadfull
Flood in Northumberland which happened in the Night between
Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th Day of November 1771 to
Nicholas Maughan of the Parish of Allendale in the said
County Yeoman.
     To the Value of his Horses Swept away and             }
Drowned by the violence of the said Flood on West          }
Allendale Water which we whose names are hereunto          }
Subscribed, near Neighbours to the said Nicholas           }
Maughan, as such, well know * * * and believe him          }
to be a very Honest Industrious Man and that he lost       }
the said two Horses in manner and by the Flood afore-      }
said which we well know and think in our Judgement         }
were at the time they were so lost well worth Ten          } £ :  s :  d
pounds ten shillings and a greater loss to the said        }10 : 10 : 00
Nicholas Maughan than the value of them as he              }
supported himself and Family by using the said             }
Horses in the Carriage way, between Allendale Town         }
in the Parish aforesaid and Alstone in Cumberland          }
And that by such Loss as aforesaid he is become            }
a proper object of Charity, all which we do hereby         }
Certify to the officiating Minister of the Parish of Allen-}
dale aforesaid, and beg leave to recommend him to the      }
Consideration of the Committee appointed by the Subscrib-  }
:ers for the relief of the unhappy sufferers by the said   }
Flood As Witness our Hands this 30th day of Decr           }
1771
    John Spark                            Joseph Watson
                                          Wm Vickers
    Matthew Dawson                        John Hornsby

I Josiah Fleming Curate of the Parish of Allendale above
mentioned to the Minister thereof who does not reside within
the Parish, Do hereby certify that I very well know the above
named Nichs Maughan and also the several Persons whose
Names are Subscribed to the above Written Account and
Certificate and that I believe him and them to be honest

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