Insolvent Debtors 1775

Articles from the London Gazette

Provided by Lindsey Withers

The following Persons being Fugitives for Debt, and beyond the Seas, on the TWENTY-EIGHTH Day of APRIL, One thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-four, and having surrendered themselves to the Goalers or Keepers of the respective Prisons or Goals hereafter-mentioned, do hereby give Notice That they intend to take the Benefit of an Act of Parliament, passed in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the third intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors; and for the Relief of Bankrupts in certain Cases; at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held in and for the County Riding, Division, City, Town, Liberty, or Place, or any Adjournment thereof, which shall happen next after THIRTY Days from the FIRST Publication of the under-mentioned Names, viz.

London Gazette - Issue 11532 published on the 31 January 1775

Fugitive surrendered to the Sheriff's Ward or Prison for the County of DEVON.
First Notice.
Samuel Woollcott, formerly of Chudleigh in the County of Devon, late of St. John's Newfoundland.

London Gazette - Issue 11556 published on the 25 April 1775

Fugitive in the Sheriff's Ward in the Parish of St. Thomas the Apostle in the County of Devon.
First Notice.
John Winsor, late of the Parish of Bradninch in the County of Devon, since of the Island of Guernsey, Serge-maker and malt-maker.

London Gazette - Issue 11563 published on the 20 May 1775

Fugitives surrendered to the Warden of His Majesty's Prison of the FLEET.
First Notice.
Thomas Lowman, formerly of Honiton in the County of Devon, late of the Island of Jersey, Shoe-maker and Stocking-dealer.

London Gazette - Issue 11565 published on the 27 May 1775

Fugitive surrendered to the Warden of His Majesty's Prison of the FLEET.
First Notice.
William Chambers the Younger, formerly of Plymouth in the County of Devon, late of the Island of Guernsey, Gentleman.

London Gazette - Issue 11588 published on the 15 August 1775

Prisoner in the KING's BENCH Prison in the County of Surry.
First Notice.
William Cartwright, jun. formerly of Cleave in the County of Devon, late of great Ormond-street, Red-lion-square, Gentleman.