BONNEY DIARY: 13.11.1794 Brillat's boy
Thomas Breillat pumpmaker, 160 Shoreditch 1785-8, 85 Shoreditch 1789-91 (with partner Darling), Hackney Rd / Thomas born 7.3.1746/7 bapt 29.3.1747 Shoreditch of Peter Breillat & Mary (nee Dolhent) / Thomas Breillat bach = Shoreditch 6.7.1766 Ann Gray sp both of Norton Folgate banns wits Peter Breillat, Wm Burgess (but could find no record of any children) / will PCC 1781 Peter Breillat / Nat Arch HO 42/6/312 & 315 folios 800-1, 806-9 Thomas Breillat committed to Newgate by Shoreditch magistrates for haranguing a large crowd on the Hackney Road / Criminal registers: for saying "there never would be good peace or times till Kings were abolished from the Earth and that he wished there were no Kings at all and that he wished the French would land 10,000 men in England to fight the government party" also "a reformation cannot be effected without a revolution" 5ft 5in dark eyes black hair dark complexion age 45 sentenced to a year in Newgate and fined £100. Brought to Newgate 24.10.1793 bailed 26.10.1793 St James Chronicle 26.11.1793 reported he had absconded but he was tried at Clerkenwell Sessions house on 6.12.1793 and sentenced the next day after the jury was out for two and a half hours (Morning Post 7.12.1793 but see British Gazette 8.12.1793), his counsel Vaughan & Gurney, his solicitor Martin, Richmond Buildings / Thomas Breillat, Kentucky subscribed 1795 to Wm Winterbotham's America / Telegraph 8.9.1796 reported he was settled on a farm on Kentucky river / National Intelligencer 30.8.1823 8 acres in Fairfax County Virginia of which Thomas Breillat died seized, escheated (i.e reverted to State as he had no heirs) / Thomas Brillett = Shoreditch 21.3.1790 Mary Clarkson / Thomas Ebenezer Breillat of Thomas Breillat & Sarah of Holywell St born 20.7.1795 bapt 25.10.1795 Shoreditch