Reference
WJ263
Title
Attested copy of release. £90
Date free text
12 Feb 1801
Production date
From: 1801 To: 1801
Scope and Content
i) Mary Gregory, Eversholt, widow of John Gregory, late Eversholt, gentleman (only daughter of Mary Potts, Long Lane, Toddington, widow deceased, formerly Mary Linford, one of the 5 daughters of Nathan Linford, late Maulden, butcher, deceased)
ii) Ezra Eagles, Ampthill, gentleman and wife Sarah
iii) Bartholomew Churchill Carter, Staples Inn, gentleman
[recitingWJ259: recites that Mary Linford married i) Lawrence Burr. ii) Henry Potts. That Frances Linford died intestate: that Elizabeth Linford married George Knowles and conveyed ¼ of the estate to her husband who conveyed it to Nathan Medcraft, father of Sarah Eagles.
Reciting: Marriage Settlement (Lease and Release 2/3 January 1765
i) Mary Potts senior
ii) Mary Potts junior (later Mary Gregory)
iii) John Gregory junior, Eversholt, gentleman
iv) Richard Medcraft, Westoning, gentleman
--- ¼ of estate of Nathan Linford deceased to iv) in trust to uses
reciting: Richard Medcraft died intestate; Nathan Medcraft, his only son and heir is since deceased, whose son John Medcraft is deceased leaving Sarah Eagles his only heir]
i) and ii) to iii)
--- ¼ part of cottage and close (2 pightles) Maulden
--- Allotment (2 roods 5 perches) Maulden, to John Medcraft in occupation Francis Read
--- 2 acres Church field, Church furlong late in occupation Nathan Linford, then Mary Linford, now Francis Read
--- 3 cottages, Clophill late in occupation John Pryor, John Radley, Henry Carey, then Peter Matthews, now John Sanders, [ ] Low and John Radley
to use of ii) for joint lives. On decease of Ezra Eagles to Sarah for life, then to heirs of Ezra Eagles
Witnesses: J H Buckle, Mary Shaw
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