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The following sourced from The London Gazette - date and number as indicated entries for Baker seeking release from Prison as an Insolvent Debtor: To be entitled to petition for release his debts will have had to be less than £500, though in 1769 this was raised to £1,000. As Watchmaker: Compton Str...

You may add: As Watch Case Maker of Wheeler Street, Spitalfields, declared bankrupt December 1795 - Certificate of Conformity February 1796 - see London Gazette nos 13844 and 13864.

Baillie's entry on Amos Avery - London 1767-9. Bankrupt -can be supplemented. Here is information from my data-base entry on him - part of a study of the English horological trade 1720-1849 based on bankruptcy and insolvency records as published in the London Gazette AVERY, Amos Watchmaker, D&C:...