Fire Insurance Policy Registers 1777-1786

A list of Fire Insurance policies issued with the Sun and Royal Exchange Insurance Companies in the late eighteenth century. Almost any type of property could be insured, and the type of premises involved and their contents was normally specified in the policy. By the 1770s and 1780s, the Sun Insurance Company had an almost complete monopoly on insuring industrial properties and were available through office established in London.


January 1, 1776
Policy in the name of John Clark and David Milligan, merchants, 9 Nicholas Lane, London.
Insured value �6000.

January 1, 1777
Policy in the name of John Clark and David Milligan, merchants, 9 Nicholas Lane, London.
Insured value �1000.

January 1, 1777
Policy in the name of John Clark and David Milligan, merchants, 9 Nicholas Lane, London.
Insured value �8000.

January 1, 1778
Policy in the name of John Clark and David Milligan, merchants, 9 Nicholas Lane, London.
Insured value �4000.

January 1, 1778
Policy in the name of John Clark and David Milligan, merchants, 9 Nicholas Lane, London.
Insured value �10000.

January 1, 1778
Policy in the name of Hugh Milliken, merchant, Port Glasgow.
Insured value �1400.

January 1, 1779
Policy in the name of John Clark and David Milligan, merchants, 9 Nicholas Lane, London.
Insure value �4000.

January 1, 1779
Policy in the name of James Spalding, William Clarance and Halley Benson Millikin, grocers, 89 Whitechapel, London.
Insured value �4000.

January 1, 1780
Policy in the name of Halley Benson Millikin, grocer, 9 Whitechapel.
Insured value �1400.

January 1, 1781
Policy in the name of Sir Adam Ferguson, Bart., George Ferguson, Esqr, Advocate, John Russell, writer to the Signel, and David Russell, Kilkerran and Edinburgh.
Trustees on the Estate of Milliken.
Insured value �100.

January 1, 1781
Policy in the name of Andrew Milligan, watchmaker, Edinburgh.
Insured value �200.

January 1, 1781
Policy in the name of Edward Milligan, caulker, North Street, Portsea.
Insured value �200.

January 1, 1781
Policy in the name of John Clark and David Milligan, merchants, 9 Nicholas Lane.
Insured value �15000.

January 1, 1782
Policy in the name of John Clark and David Milligan, merchants, 9 Nicholas Lane.
Insured value �10000.

January 1, 1782
Policy in the name of Hugh Milliken, merchant, Port Glasgow.
Insured value �1400.

January 1, 1785
Policy in the name of William Milligan, shipwright, Hawk Street, Portsea.
Insured value �300.

January 1, 1786
Policy in the name of David Milligan, Gent., 9 Nicholas Land, Lombard Street.
Insured value �800.

January 1, 1786
Policy in the name of David Milligan, 9 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street.
For the Committee of John Clark Lunatick.
Insured value �4000.

January 1, 1786
Policy in the name of David Milligan, merchant, 9 Nicholas Land, Lombard Street.
Executor to the late Thomas McMin, Esqr, Dumfries, deceased.
Insured value �800.






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