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Haltwhistle Estimates

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Thomas






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William Dodgson?






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Damage done Thos. Hetherington of Bellister

    Nine Acres of Wheat & Rye sown on a clean Summer
    fallow Limed and Manured - the Corn and Soil entirely
    swept away.
          Eight Acres of Turnips on good Land well
          Limed and Manured - Turnips & soil gone
    Fourteen Acres of fresh Fogg and the Winter Eatage
    of all his best warm ground, is covered with Sand
    and Gravel, and quite lost, and the Hedges running
    North & South Wreck'd up and destroyed.
          Four Acres & an half of new sown Rye is so much
          Washed & the Roots laid so bare it is thought
          it cannot come to a Crop worth the Seed that
          was sown,
Damage done Wm. Dodgshon Millar of Bellister Mill
    A Quantity of Corn in the Mill, with his household
    furniture & wearing apparel being all his substance
    entirely swept away by the flood.

Damage done Ann Bell of Harpertown, a Poor Widow
with Six Children to maintain.
    Sixty thrave of Oats - Twenty thrave of Barley -
    a Hay Stack of Eight Fathom, & all her Husbandry
    tackle of every kind, entirely swept away.

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