GA1695

Marriage Settlement. (Copy). £7,500.

9 Jun 1759, copy made 1774

From: 1759 To: 1774

(i) Nathaniel Mason of London merchant, son and heir of Nathaniel Mason salter, deceased and nephew of Thomas Edwards of Terrick (?), Buckinghamshire, deceased. (ii) Ann Hunt of Charterhouse Square, St. Botolph's Aldersgate widow of Thomas Hunt, alderman of Coventry deceased. (iii) Ann Hunt of Charterhouse Square, spinster. (iv) Thomas Hunt of London merchant brother of Ann, and Joseph Paice of the same merchant. -- Property in Irchester, Northamptonshire; property in Winkfield, Berkshire; - land in Shelton: 22 acres in Mill field, 20 acres in Pasture field, 24 acres in Middle field, 3 acres in Upper Dean field, 10 acres in the Inclosed ground, occupied Samuel Negus; cottage and close in Shelton occupied Henry Burnham; cottage and close in the same occupied James Wise, together with a blacksmith's shop occupied by -- Burgess; cottage occupied Samuel Wise, close (7 rods) adjoining; 14 acres 1 rod land in Mill field, in Grove furlong, abutting the highway; 3 acres 1 rod bought of the Earl of Bolingbroke;- in Middle field, abutting the highway and the glebeland; in Pasture field, in Edgegrove furlong, abutting Outmeare, on Feddell slade; 6 acres bought of Thomas Barry :- in Pasture field, on Stanwardway furlong; in Middle field, on Quickset furlong, abutting New Penn, on Short Water furrows; in Dunstead field, on Hyhill furlong, on Buck furlong; in Pasture furlong, on Toft furlong; in Middle field, on Willowslade furlong, next the glebeland; in Mill field, on Roccler's furlong, 4 acres 1 rod purchased Joseph Symonds deceased:- in Mill field, on Low Dunstead furlong, abutting Dunstead Herding, and King's slade, on Hungerhill furlong, abutting Shelton Nether Dean rod, on Copple hedge furlong, abutting Little Middle slade, on Hargrave side furlong, abutting highway and Mill hill; in Pasture field, on Mazebaulk furlong, abutting Shelton-Higham Ferrars road; in Middle field, on Quickest furlong, abutting Stockwellslade, on Rushbush furlong, abutting Rushbush herding. Property in Sharnbrook as in GA1688. Messuage or farmhouse with appurtances occupied Humphrey Fensham and Lewis Bartram formerly, now by Ann Bartram widow, in Wootton and Kempston; 3 closes called Howes adjoining; 12 acres piece lying opposite the messuage and divided from it by the Kempston - Wootton Road; closes (38 acers) formerly one close called Keely close or Wood close in Wootton; 2 closes in Wootton Shelton, abutting the common field and the Marston-Bedford road, formerly called Great Howes; close called Stubpey's pightle in Wootton; cottage and 2 pightles of pasture adjoining in Keely End, Wootton, with 1 acre land in Long field, and 1/2 acre in a common field of Wootton; in Lott meadow & Brodmead; farms of Keely End formerly occupied Thomas Edwards esq., left to Nathaniel Mason in Will, 1 June 1754. Owners and occupiers of adjoining lands in Shelton: formerly Mr Francis Mallory, ---- Dillingham esq., formerly Thomas Carey, ----- Nicholsen, Nathaniel Mason, formerly Mr Thomas Boswell, Reverend Mr. Dillingham late of the Earl of Bolingbroke, Lord St. John, Dillingham Boswell clerk. Witnesses: Morgan Morse, John Neale.

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Mason, Nathaniel,
Edwards, Thomas,
Hunt, Ann,
Hunt, Thomas,
Paice, Joseph,
Negus, Samuel,
Burnham, Henry,
Wise, James,
Burgess,
Wise, Samuel,
Bolingbroke,
Barry, Thomas,
Symonds, Joseph,
Fensham, Humphrey,
Bartram, Lewis,
Bartram, Ann,
Mallory, Francis,
Dillingham,
Carey, Thomas,
Nicholson,
Boswell, Thomas,
Boswell, Dillingham,
St.John,
Morse, Morgan,
Neale, John

marriage settlements, London, merchant, salter, Buckinghamshire, London St.Botolph Aldersgate, alderman, Coventry, Irchester, Winkfield, SHELTON, Shelton fields, blacksmiths, SHARNBROOK, Sharnbrook farms, WOOTTON, KEMPSTON, Wootton Keeley End, Wootton fields, Wootton farms