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Joseph Orchard
American Loyalist Claim
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Office of American Claims
21st May 1789
Present
Mr Pemberton
Mr Mackenzie
Examination on the demand of Joseph Orchard late of New York
Demand
For 26,000lb of Flour, being a Balance due to him on a final Settlement with the Commissary General at New York, charged at an Average Price of Years from 1777 to 1781, Per Statement Produced Viz.
Currency £1256.10.0
7 Years Interest @ 5 Per Cent £439.15.6
New York Currency £1696.5.6
Sterling £954.3.2
Memorial read
Joseph Orchard examined says
He is a Native of England, and settled at New York in the Year 1773, in the Business of a Baker, being encouraged so to do by Major General Tryon late Governor of New York
ith respect to his Conduct at the Commencement of and during the Rebellion in America, he produces Certificates from the Revd Mr John Milner, Samuel Gale, Joseph Allicocke, B J Johnson, John T Kempe , and from John L C Roome, Persons whose characters are well known and all of them confirming the steady, zealous, and iniform Loyalty of the Claimant
The Examinant says that in consequence of Recommendations and particularly from Governor Tryon he was in the Year 1776, Appointed Superintendant of the Kings Bakeries, under the direction of Daniel Chamier Esq. then Commissary General, in which Situation he continued until some Time in the Year 1781, receiving 5o/ per day as Salary, and an allowance of Forage for One House
Documents:
Claim for flour
Addition for wood
Attestation by:
Joseph Allicocke: London, 18th May 1789
John L. C. Roome: London, 1st October 1787
R. J. Johnson: Mill Hill, Hendon, 27th November 1788
J. T. Kempe: No.43 Clarges Street, 1st December 1788
John Milner: Ightham near Seven Oakes, Kent, 11th May 1789