Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    CC179
  • Title
    Conveyance, £90 (copy): (i) Mary Gregory of Eversholt, widow of John, gentleman, and daughter of Mary Potts of Long Lane, Toddington, widow, who was heretofore Mary Linford (1 of 5 daughters of Nathan) (ii) Ezra Eagles of Ampthill, gentleman, and wife Sarah (iii) Bartholomew Churchill Carter of Staple Inn, gentleman. [Recites history of property] Mary Gregory has agreed to sell her 1/4 to Ezra and Sarah Eagles. Her 1/4 : cottage in Maulden, and close (formerly 2 pightles) adjacent, 2 acres, formerly occupied by Nathan Linford, then Mary Linford, widow, then Hester Bull, widow, now Francis Read; also 2 roods in Maulden allotted by enclosure commissioners in lieu of frontage to John Medcraft, William Wainwright and Mary Gregory, now occupied by Francis Read; also 2 acres in the common fields of Clophill in Church Field on Church furlong; also 2 cottage in Clophill, late occupied by Peter Matthews, now John Sanders, [blank] Low and John Radley; to the use of Ezra and Sarah Eagles. Witness: John Richards
  • Date free text
    12 Feb 1801
  • Production date
    From: 1801 To: 1801
  • Scope and Content
    Recites history of property: will of Nathan Linford; death of Frances Linford; Elizabeth married George Knowles, and her share was conveyed to Nathan Medcraft, father of Sarah Eagles; death of Laurence Burr; his widow Mary married Henry Potts of Toddington, who died, leaving daughter Mary Gregory; 2,3 January 1765 - marriage settlement of John Gregory and Mary Potts (trustee Richard Medcraft of Westoning, gentleman); death of John Gregory; death of Richard Medcraft intestate, leaving son Nathan; death of Nathan Medcraft, leaving son John and daughter Sarah; death of John Medcraft; therefore share came to Sarah.
  • System of arrangement
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  • Level of description
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