Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WG1051-1052
  • Title
    Conveyance (lease and release): (i) John Boswell of Upper Dean, gentleman (brother of Thomas), Dillingham Boswell of Wigston Magna, Leicestershire, clerk (eldest son of John) (ii) Christopher Fox of Upper Dean, gentleman. [Details of properties, mostly in Dean] To (ii) in trust for Dillingham Boswell. Recites will of Thomas Boswell, 21 December 1719, devising property to Dillingham Boswell, and that doubts arose as to whether this gave him more than a life estate. Witnesses: William Lambe, William Plumpton. 2 applied seals (conventional)
  • Date free text
    19,20 Mar 1741
  • Production date
    From: 1741 To: 1741
  • Scope and Content
    Details of properties: -- Messuage late in the occupation of Thomas Wagstaffe, then widow Elizabeth, now Matthew Finell; -- cottage late Robert Musgrave, now ... Gore; -- cottage late Henry Robinson, now ... Gore; In Dean and Shelton and Hargrave; purchased by Thomas Boswell of John and Theophilus Dillingham. -- messuage in Upper Dean, 2 acres land, in the occupation of Israel Howard; -- close adjoining called Grass croft (2 acres) in the occupation of John Boswell; -- 28 acres arable in Upper and Lower Dean; -- 30 acres arable in Upper and Lower Dean and Melchbourne, in the same occupation; Purchased by Thomas Boswell of William Streame. -- Messuage, 2 closes adjoining, Kendallsclose, close next Mr Peel's close, Porter's wood close with 4 feet of ditch next Lord Manchester's wood and 1 pole in wood, Townsend close; in Wornditch, parish Kimbolton, in the occupation of Thomas Day; -- 62 acres arable in Wornditch and Kimbolton in the same occupation. All purchased by Thomas Boswell of Thomas Sadding and wife Mary, John Church and wife Susan, Samuel Rowlatt and wife Mary. -- 16 acres dispersed in Hargrave, in the occupation of Silvester Brown. -- close in Upper Dean called Great Oates (1 acre), in the occupation of John Boswell.
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