London Gazette index entry detail

Publication details:

Publication date: 21 Dec 1799.

Issue: 15215.

Page: 1323.

Parish:

Rye.

Person details:

Name: Thomas Day.

Marital Status: Not given.

Occupation: Marine.

Notes:

LORD DUNCANS VICTORY. Lloyd's Coffee-House, December 6, 1799. AT a Committee appointed for conducting the Subscription raised for the Relief of the Sufferers in the Action on the memorable 11th Day of October 1797, it appearing that out of One Thousand and Twenty-three Persons, who were killed or wounded in the gallant Action under Admiral Lord Duncan that the Committee have not, with all their Inquiries, been able to find out the following List of Seventy Persons, or their Families: Resolved, That an Advertisement be inserted in the London Gazette, the Daily and Country Papers, containing the List of Persons who were killed or wounded on that Day, who have not by themselves, their Families, or Relatives, yet received Gratuities from this Committee; and that all Persons so entitled to Relief be desired to send to Mr. White, their Secretary, in Writing, the State and Number of their Families, and their Places of Residence, and if wounded, the Nature and State of their Wounds, the same to be attested by the Minister and Churchwardens, or by the Chief Magistrate of the Places or Parishes to which the Parties so applying respectively belong, in order that this Committee might be enabled to transmit to them, free of all Expence, such Gratuities as they may deem expedient, without the Necessity of an Agent, or of the Parties coming up to Town. As some of the Officers and Seamen who were wounded on the 11th Day of October 1797, have been transferred over, or have been exchanged into other Ships, and have not, from these Causes, yet received their final Gratuities, Resolved, That all all such Officers and Seamen do transmit to this Committee their Names, and the Names of the Ships in which they so gallantly served on that Day, together with the State of their Cases, the Number and Residence of their Families, attested by the Commanding Officer of the Ships to which they now respectively belong, that this Committee may remit to them or to their Families such Gratuities as the Committee have been enabled, by the Liberality of the Public, to grant. Resolved, That all Applications be made to this Committee, in Writing, on or before the 30th Day of June 1800: that only those resident in London need apply in Person to Mr. White on every Saturday, between the Hours of Eleven and One o'Clock: and all Persons resident in the Country, or who are on actual Service, be requested to make their Application, by Post, in the Manner above described : and that no Application through Agents be attended to. CALVERLEY BEWICKE, Chairman. WOUNDED. Powerful. Thomas Day, Marine, Rye, Sussex.

Batch:

GAZ_London-Gazette-04.csv.

Transcribed by:

Michael Metcalfe.

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