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Engineer, surveyor and one of Brindley's assistants.
Relationship: Assistant to James Brindley.
| Early 1766 | Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal | Did the survey for the Act with Hugh Henshall |
| Mid 1766 | Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal | He and Thomas Dadford senior worked as James Brindley's assistants on the canal. |
| 1768 | Old Main Line (BCN) | He and Robert Whitworth worked as James Brindley's assistants on the canal. |
| Early 1769 | Oxford Canal | He was appointed as James Brindley's assistant. |
| June 1769 | Oxford Canal | He and James King, the clerk of works, were told to set out the canal from Longford "in as Strait a Line as the Ground will permit". |
| 14 January 1771 | BCN Main Line | Together with James Brindley he denies that the canal was built with many windings to increase tolls. They said that the canal winding enabled it to serve more people. |
| Autumn September 1772 | Oxford Canal | He was appointed engineer at a salarly of £200 a year. |
| 1779 | Oxford Canal | He and Robert Whitworth surveyed the line for the canal form Banbury to Oxford. |
| 1786 | Oxford Canal | A Bill was presented to Parliament which included the proposition that he, Samuel Weston, and four others should build the canal from Banbury to Oxford for £29,000 on codition that they were given exclusive carrying rights and two-thirds of the profits. This was not accepted. |
| Mid 1786 | Oxford Canal | He was sent to Cambridgeshire to study the use of windmills for pumping water. One was ordered to be built at Hardwick Lock. |
| Late 1788 | Kennet and Avon Canal | He, Samuel Weston and James Barnes made surveys for narrow and barge canals from Newbury to Bath. |
| 1792 | London & Western Canal project | He surveyed a route, with Samuel Weston, for a canal from Hampton Gay, six miles north of Oxford, to Thame, Wendover, Amersham, Uxbridge and Maylebone (later changed to the Thames at Isleworth). The 60-mile canal was also to have a branch to Aylesbury. |
Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.