• Reference
    AD1626
  • Title
    Marriage Settlement: (copy)
  • Date free text
    27,28 January 1779
  • Production date
    From: 1779 To: 1779
  • Scope and Content
    (i) Martha Wingfield of Potton, spinster, daughter & coheir of Francis. (ii) Phil. Monoux of Sandy, clerk. (iii) Thos. Garle sr. & jr. of London, sugar refiners. On the marriage of (i) and (ii). - A moiety of:- 73 ac. and 12 ac. in the open fields of Potton; 4 swathes meadow in the open meadow; 2 closes (7 ac.); late in occ. Thos. Hall, now Ann Devey; a close late Wid. Wallis, now John Kitchin; a close late Wid. Pointer, now Edm. Bumberry, a btg. N. on Dean End Green, S. on lane to Byeworth Green; 2 cottages late in occ. Jos. Darling, Thos. Edwards; all 11,13 July 1784 conveyed by Lewis Monoux, cl., Jos. Greenop & wife Eliz. to Fra. Wingfield. a messuage in Potton between a common lane S. and common Mires N., abtg. E. on a common green, W. on the closes; a cottage adj.; 2 closes abtg. E. on the cottage, W. on a common way leading to Woodbury Lane, S. on a common lane, N. on the common Mires; a close of 2 1/2 ac. near Dean End Tree; 15 ac. in the common fields of Potton; all late in occ. John Pedley, maltster, now Ann Davey, and conveyed 27,28 Dec.1756 by Robt. Sadleir esq. to Fra. Wingfield; 11 ac. arable & meadow in the common fields of Potton, purch. by Thos. Ward, father of John Ward, late of Potton, tanner, of Ann Clarke, wid., 12 March 1656/7; 3 ac. meadow in Potton meadow next Gamlingay called Lombard's; purch. of Alex. Clarke & Abe Parratt of Potton gent.; all conveyed by John Ward to Thos. Halfhyde gent. of Potton, 26 May 1684; and 20, 21 July 1691 conveyed by Thos. Halfhyde to Sarah Halfhyde, wid., for life; with reversion to Edm. Halfhyde (late f. of Sarah Chapman, wid., Sus., Ann & Judith Halfhyde sp.); 2 ac. of meadow in Potton in Squetter's meadow, abtg. N. on Church Acre, E. on Potton - Hatley road, and in South meadow, near to the Lowe; all 19 February 1656/7 conveyed by John Wallis of Potton, yeoman, to Edm. Halfhyde (as above); late in occ. Mary Rugeley wid., now Ann Devey: and 20, 21 March conveyed by Sarah Chapman etc. to Fra. Wingfield. a messuage orchard and close formerly in occ. Wm. Sibley, late Wid. Bonfield, now Ann Devey, John Garratt, Hen. Reynolds; conveyed 23,24 February 1761 by Jos. Greenop & w. Eliz. & Ann Phipps to Fra. Wingfield; 12 ac. in Potton in Windmill Field in occ. Ann Devey, bounded N. & S. by 2 roads leading to Sandy; 6 ac. ditto in occ. Ann Devey; 1 ac. meadow in Potton, in occ. Thos. Richardson Rayment, gent., now Rebecca & Martha Wingfield; all 27,28 June 1735 conveyed by Eleanor Apthorp, wid., to Fra. Wingfield; Horn Lane meadow (1/2 ac.), part going over Middle Ditch and abtg. W. on the common brook, part of the estate late Busby's, purch. by Reb. & Mart. Wingfield of Rich. Emery late of Potton, watchmaker; A cottage, now 2 tenements, in Gamlingay, Cambs. (details), with orchard adj.; and an annuity of £1.19.6 charged on a massuage and close in Gamlingay (details). Witn. Jud. Porteus, John Pedley.
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