Reference
X216/14
Title
Marriage Settlement (copy)
Date free text
14 Nov 1749
Production date
From: 1710 To: 1749
Scope and Content
i) Sarah Marsom of Luton, spinster
Elizabeth Marsom of Luton, spinster
(daughters, legatees and executrixes of Samuel Marsom the elder)
ii) James Gutteridge of Luton, maltster
iii) Samuel Marsom of Luton, draper
John Coles of Luton, grocer
Thomas Hunt of London
Marriage between Sarah Marsom and ii)
recites will of Samuel Marsom 22 December 1748
provisions: to daughter Hannah, wife of William Gutteridge, annuity from income on Kilnoe or Kilney Close (four closes freehold), Luton
to grandchildren Hannah, Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah, Martha and Mary Gutteridge, monetary bequests charged on Kilnoe Close, payable after death of daughter Hannah
to daughter Sarah, monetary bequest and Red Cross or Red Croft Close, 5 acres in Luton
to daughter Elizabeth, monetary bequest
to daughters Sarah and Elizabeth (joint executrixes), Kilnoe Close, messuage in Luton, next White Hart Inn, all other messuages and cottages adjoining above-mentioned messuage and all other messuages not before disposed of, in Luton
on marriage of Sarah Marsom to ii) Red Cross Close and half all other lands bequeathed to i) and £800 to be secured in trust for Sarah, as below. ii) to bequeath half of all he possesses, as below
Sarah Marsom conveys to iii) by Lease and Release in trust for herself, on usual conditions:-
... Red Cross Close
... one half Kilnoe Close
... half messuage in occupation of Samuel Chase the younger
... half messuages or cottages in occupation of Daniel Adcock, John Chamberlain, John Brown (deceased)
... half all other property in Luton
all inherited under Samuel Marsom's will
recites:-
a) Mortgage: £300: 23 June 1710
i) John Crosse
ii) John Trustram
iii) Joane Sowthen
... messuage or inn in Luton
... close of pasture
b) Mortgage: £60: 24 June 1738
i) George Slow
ii) Samuel Marsom
... messuage and land in Luton
c) Mortgage: £250: 31 October 1738
i) John Chalkley
ii) Samuel Marsom
... messuage and three closes arable in Luton
... newly built messuage called the Post House
d) Mortgage: £435: 29 September 1740
e) Mortgage: 26 March 1744
i) Henry Lewingdon
ii) Samuel Marsom
... piece of meadow ground in Oxfordshire
f) Mortgage: £150: 20 October 1746
i) Jeremiah Okey
ii) S Marsom
... messuage, several closes and newly built messuage in Luton
all vested in i) under will of Samuel Marsom
g) Mortgage: £350
... watermill and messuage adjoining
... millbank in Flitton, 1 acre
... meadowground in Pulloxhill, 5 acres
vested in Jordan and Benjamin Greene, in trust for i)
mortgage money to be applied to payment of legacies to i). All land a) to f) and g) conveyed to iii) in trust for i)
owners and occupiers: Samuel Chase, Daniel Adcock, John Chamberlain, John Brown (deceased)
witnesses: Thomas Hill, Thomas Marsom, Thomas Cooper, Thomas Foulkes, Robert Swindall (his clerk)
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