AD2425-26

Conveyance and assignment of a term of years in trust to attend the inheritance (lease and release)

20/21 Feb 1784

From: 1784 To: 1784

i) Joseph Margetts Pierson of Hitchin, grocer ii) Mary Russell, late of Wootton, now of Wilshamstead, spinster(only surviving sister and heir at law of Joseph Russell, late of Wootton, clockmaker, deceased, who was only son and heir at law of William Russell late of Wootton, clockmaker, deceased) iii) William Emerton of Wootton, clockmaker iv) Thomas Furnival of Bedford, serjeant major of the Beds. Militia Recites: Mortgage of 3 April 1746, and AD2423. Whereas: £50 remained owing to i) and iii) had agreed with ii) for purchase of the freehold and inheritance of the premises for £86, of which £50 was to be paid to i) NOW consid: £50 paid by iii) to i) at direction of ii), and £36 paid by iii) to ii), ii) grants to iii) -messuage or tenement in Boat End, Wootton, and a piece of ground (1acre) adjoining :N. Common Lane :S and W. ground heretofore of Humphrey Monoux Esq, now of Sir Philip Monoux :E. Town Ground ALSO consid: 10s paid by iv) to i), i) grants residue of term of 1000 years to iv) in trust for the use of heirs of iii) endorsed: receipts by i) to iii) for £50, and ii) to iii) for £36 wits: Jeremy Fish Palmer, Thos. Kidman sigs: all parties

For the Russells of Wootton, clockmakers and bell-founders, see North: Church Bells of Bedfordshire

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Pierson, Joseph Margetts,
Russell, Mary,
Russell, Joseph,
Russell, William,
Emerton, William,
Furnival, Thomas,
Monoux, Humphrey,
Monoux, Phillip,
Palmer, Jeremy Fish,
Kidman, Thomas

legal papers, DEEDS, mortgages, Hitchin, grocer, WOOTTON, WILSHAMSTEAD, clockmaker, militia, Wootton Boat End