 Soon after, his health began to fail, and he arranged for his Canada and other business to be transferred to a new partnership between his long-time chief clerk, John Brickwood, and a returned East India employee, Thomas Pattle.With various reorganizations, the Brickwood firm remained important well into the next century.Like other London Quakers, Strettell took a keen interest in charitable works, such as a project to purchase fish and potatoes for the London poor during the severe winter of 1767, and another, in 1777, for the relief of American prisoners of war, held in prisons in England under circumstances of great privation.