Interesting Details in the Colliery Accounts, 1766

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Date:1766

Description:This document provides a list of trials of Lead Mines of Grindon including the cost of working. Richard Annables was paid for 19 days at one shilling a day for gun powder.

Mr. Adams was paid Expenses for going to Grindon to meet with the man who found the vain, but not finding them at Grindon was obliged to go into Derbyshire and paid 6 shillings and six pence for the men at work and money spent on them for ale.

The document includes receipts for wages paid for working at the lead mine for 28 days signed by Samuel Austin, Thomas Shenton and Richard Addables who gave an X as his mark.

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