Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WJ58
  • Title
    Marriage Settlement (Lease and Release) £400
  • Date free text
    22/23 Jun 1770
  • Production date
    From: 1770 To: 1770
  • Scope and Content
    i) Thomas Squire, Shefford, baker, eldest son and heir and devisee of Thomas Squire, late Stanford Mill, Southill, miller, deceased and wife Anna Maria William Squire, Stanford Mill, another son of Thomas Squire ii) William Endersby, Campton, gentleman Ezekiel Kent, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, yeoman William Dunnage, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, grocer executors of John Endersbye, Campton, yeoman, deceased iii) Robert Squire, Shefford, baker, 2nd son of Thomas Squire and wife Mary (late Endersbye) iv) Thomas Blindell, Watton, Hertfordshire, yeoman Thomas Pain, Hitchin, innholder [Recites will WJ56 --- £600 to Mary Endersbye Recites bond, 3 February 1770, £1200 to secure payment of £600 as marriage portion on marriage of iii). £400 to be used to purchase lands to settle on Mary Endersbye] i) to William Dunnage and Thomas Blindell --- cottage and bakehouse, Shefford, late in occupation of Thomas Lamont, now Thomas Squire, Town House W, land late Lord Bruce, now Duke of Bedford E, tenement late William Rawlins, now John Godfrey S, street N, and cartway through the ground next the tenement, in occupation late Sarah Day, to the highway. purchased by Thomas Squire senior deceased of William Rawlins --- toft in Hog Mead, Shefford and Campton, late in occupation Robert Pain, then Thomas Bentley, then Samuel Squire, now Thomas Squire --- 2 acres Midsummer Meadow, Shefford, in occupation Thomas Squire --- cottage, Langford, late in occupation John Sharpe, now John Sexton --- 6 acres arable, Langford fields --- close, Langford (3 acres) near the cottage to use of Robert Squire for life, remainders to children of iii), remainder to heirs of survivor. Covenant to levy a fine Witnesses: Samuel Atkinson, Richard Tristram
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