Reference
RO29
Title
Messuage in How End and 56 acres in Houghton Conquest purchased by John Earl of Upper Ossory in 1806
Date free text
1696-1806
Production date
From: 1696 To: 1806
Archival history
The messuage in How End, with closes and 29 acres of land (with other premises) were settled in 1695 on the three daughters of John Samm and were sold, later in the same year, to Joseph Barber, grocer of Ampthill. In 1717 he settled these premises on his son Joseph Barber junior, draper of Ampthill, on his marriage with Mercy Briggins. Joseph Barber, the son, had himself purchased 10 acres of land in Houghton Conquest in 1709 from Jeremiah Peirce, a yeoman. Both these purchases, together with other lands, were settled on their daughter Hannahbella on her marriage with John Marshall, calico printer of Crayford, Kent in 1751. All the children of this marriage died young and after her husband's death in 1769 Hannahbella settled her lands on her cousins. The London and Middlesex premises were settled on John Elliot, the son of her sister Mariabella, while the Bedfordshire premises, including the lands under discussion here, were settled on Richard and Briggins How, the sons of her sister Susannah
Richard and Briggins How sold the premises, together with a house in Ampthill, to William Brown of Ampthill, a grocer, in 1774. Brown died a few years later, leaving his property to his daughter Ann. Ann married John Ransom, a mealman of Hitchin, by whom the property was sold in 1806 to the Earl of Upper Ossory for the sum of £1,338
[for further details of the How family see catalogue HW]
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