STORM AND COMPANY
British Prisoners in France
Jackson's Oxford Journal October 28, 1809, displayed in Gale's 19th Century British Library Newspapers, contains the following entry:
Cartels have been established between this country and France for the mutual conveyance and exchange of aged and infirm prisoners of war; in one of these a blind seaman arrived at Plymouth a few days ago; he had been confined to Verdun a considerable time, and, previous to his departure from hence, he procured a book, in which the following prosoners entered their names, signifying they were all well on the 4th September last. - The publication of the following list may probably tend to relieve the anxiety of many of their relatives in this country.
Yorkshire- Israel Allison, Robin Hood's Bay; Thomas Merchant, Robert Dunn, Whitby;..........Edward Chapman, Matthew Storm, William Nesfield, Henry Letherington, Whitby; Edward Fox, George Appleyard, Scarborough; ......