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Samuel Acton of Distaff Lane joined "unnumbered division" (QV) 26.3.1794. Probably the newly free engraver, see below

Samuel Etheridge Acton apprenticed 1747 to Robert Marram, Pewterers Co. premium £21
Samuel Etheridge Acton bach = St Margaret Lothbury 25.12.1764 Ann Wright sp botp by Archbishop's licrnse wits Wm Acton, Ann Wright
Samuel son of Samuel Etheridge & Anne Acton bapt 19.4.1773 St Mary Aldermary
trades directories 1776 to 1791 Samuel Acton coal merchant 9 Distaff Lane, Friday St
trades directory 1777 Samuel Acton merchant 82 Watling St
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proposed member of Society for Constitutional Information 30.11.1792 by Christopher Hull, seconded by John Balmanno, rejected (one of a very few) Nat Arch TS11/962 / signed Declaration of Friends to the Liberty of the Press 1792/3 / steward at general meeting of London Corresponding Society 20.1.1794 (Thale p105) / witness in treason trials 1794 address Hare Court, Temple / steward of Friends of Freedom 1795, 1796 / on the outbreak of open rebellion in Ireland he was arrested 31.5.1798 at the Inner Temple on suspicion of high treason (along with Valentine Lawless, Richard Curran, Traynor…

John Ashpinshaw at conference 17.4.1789 / John Ashpinshaw otp bach = 8.12.1757 by lic St Botolph Aldgate Sarah Locke sp of St Helen London minor / John A of John & Sarah, Castle St, St Mary Whitechapel bapt 14.6.1761 /  Lydia A of John & Sarah, Kirby St, St Andrew Holborn bapt 10.2.1771 /  will PCC 13.10.1798 John A whitesmith of Leather Lane Holborn dated 1..7.1795 wife Sarah sons Joseph, Thomas / Rev John Aspinshaw of Notts d.1851 his son? /  SunFire 1834 John A 3 New Russel St, Bedford St, Commercial Rd, gent / In Thale p302, 410n, 429 there was an Aspinshaw in the London…