A fellow researcher has come across the following and is asking if there
was any smelting in the West Indies?
I have just come across this in the M.I.s for Kirkby Hill.
Here lieth the body of Samuel Smith who died 17 September aged 62 in A D
1749. He in the West Indies and in great Britain was a smelter and refiner
brave, and cruel death hath stopt his breath, and sent him to his grave. He
afflictions sore with patience bore, phisicians were in vain, till death
gave ease, when God did please and took him of his pain.
Sam Smith was smelter at Washton and also at West Burton Smelt Mill in
Walden, Wensleydale. Maybe West Burton was confused for West Indies.
Ian Spensley
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