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William Dewees reparation claim

Date: December 1791

The Petition of Wm. Dewees, presented Dec. 1791

SCHEDULE of  property, with its valuations, destroyed by a detachment of the British Army on the 17th and 18th September 1777, the property of the petitioner, to wit:

One dwelling house, two stories high, and four rooms on a
Floor, with kitchen, smoke house, stables etc.                                               House                    		£ 1500 0 0
Out houses      400 0 0
One forge, with 4 fires, near the dwelling house     300 0 0
One coal house, near the lower forge, with 5000 bushels of coal     375 5 4
One saw mill     300 0 0
Houses for workmen, valued at     200 0 0
One coal house, upper forge, and 4000 bushels of coal     329 0 0
 £ 3404 5 4

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