Poe and
Essex / Caroline / Culpeper Counties in Virginia
Granville/Orange/Chatham County, North Carolina
[No
idea whether or not this is the same family as that of
William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth Colony, but the Nottinghamshire
connection and settlement patterns show some possibility. The link may date to
a generation prior to that of Plymouth William though]
This
Source shows that the Bradford Family had connections to Nottinghamshire. There
is some evidence that the Poe family of Essex County, VA came out of
Nottinghamshire. There also was a Poe family presence in Yorkshire.
From:
http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/rbrad.html (defunct)
Robert
Bradford*; b. c1487, Bentley, Nottinghamshire, England; d. 1552, Wellingley, Parish of Tickhill, Yorkshire, England.
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Title: |
Caroline
County, Virginia order book / abstracted and compiled by John Frederick
Dorman |
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Author: |
Dorman, John
Frederick |
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Publisher:
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Washington : The Compiler, s.d.- |
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Collation:
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v. ; 28 cm. |
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Note: |
Indexes. |
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Note: |
Library
holdings: 1732-1770. |
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Subject:
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Caroline Co.,
Virginia - Court records |
Stephen Poe
Rachel Bradford
John Sutton
p.
240 [9 Dec. 1756]
It’s
ordered Rachel Bradford and Stephen Poe be summoned to next court and to bring
the last will of Richard Bradford
Present:
John Sutton
Stephen Poe
Rachel Bradford
Richard Bradford*
13
January 1757
The
last will and testament of Richard Bradford was presented in court by William
Bowler and proved by Thos. Mason, Henry Farley, and William Ragsdale, witnesses
thereto. Racheal Bradford, executrix in the will named, by a note from under
her hand relinquished her right of executorship and Stephen Poe, executor,
relinquished in open court. On William Bowler's motion, administration of the
estate with the will annexed is granted him.
It's
ordered William Bowler, administrator etc., pay Henry Farley . . . Thomas Mason . . . William
Ragsdale [each] 280 pounds of tobacco for one day's attendance and coming and
going once eighty five miles to prove the will of Rchd.
Bradford.
*Stephen & Hannah mentioned in Will of Richard Bradford see
Record of Unrecorded Wills 1746-57 in Orange Co. NC October 28, 1756. Cavaliers and pioneers abstracts of Virginia
land patents and grants Volume Two: 1666-1695 abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent
Indexed by Claudia B. Grundman Publisher:
Richmond, VA : Virginia State Library , 1977.
Patent Book No. 9 Richard Bradford. 200 acs., Chas.
City Co., 28 Oct. 1702, p. 510. Escheated from John Robinson, dec’d., by inquisition under John Lightfoor,
Esqr., Esch’r. of that part
of Chas. City Co. that lyes on the N. side of James
River, &c.
AfriGeneas Slave Research Forum
Slaves in
Caroline Co., VA, 1757
Posted By: SlaveContributor
Date: Sunday, 1 May 2005, at 5:57 p.m.
Transcription
from Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly Bulletin,
Volume
IV, No. 3 (July 1966), p.50: Caroline County: Richard
Bradford,
will dated 28 Oct. 1756, proved 18 Jan. 1757. To son
Richard "one shilling
only;" to son John, under 21, 2
slaves "I have in
Carolina
which I bought of my brother Philip
Bradford," beds, furniture, etc.
Bequests
to wife Rachell, daughters Septirah
Bradford, Elizabeth Bradford.
Residue of estate to wife for life, and she is
executrix.
"Seal'd Sign'd & Deliver'd in the Province of
Virginia."
Wits: Thos. Wrenn[?], henry Farley, William (X) Ragsdale.
Rachel
relinquished the executorship and administration was granted
to
William Bowler. A Copy Teste: Benj. Rob____, Cl.C.
It's
ordered William Bowler, administrator etc., pay Henry Farley
. .
.
Thomas Mason . . . William Ragsdale [each] 280 pounds of tobacco
for
one day's attendance and coming and going once eighty five
miles
to
prove the will of Rchd. Bradford
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Title: |
Abstracts of
the wills and estate records of Granville County, North Carolina, 1746-1808 /
by Zae Hargett Gwynn |
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Author: |
Gwynn, Zae Hargett |
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Publisher:
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Rocky Mount, NC : Joseph W. Watson, 1973 |
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Collation:
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2 v. ; 24 cm. |
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Note: |
v. 1 1746-1808 ; 2 1808-1833 |
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Note: |
Index |
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Subject:
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Granville
Co., North Carolina - Court records |
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Subject:
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Granville
Co., North Carolina - Probate records |
Unrecorded Wills, 1746-1771
Oct. 28, 1756 - proved Jan. 1757 on oath of William
Bowler, Thomas Wrenn, William Ragsdale, Henry Farley. The executors named
relinquished and the court appointed William Bowler, administrator. Richard
Bradford wills to son Richard, 20 shillings; to son John, 2 negroes, all
land in Carolina which I bought of my brother Phillip Bradford, 2 featherbeds
and furniture and he to reamin in care of my wife
Rachel Bradford until he is 21 years old; to daughter Lephirah
Bradford, a negro slave; to daughter Eliza Bradford, a negro which I have
already delivered to her; to my wife Rachel all else as long as she is
my widow and at her death, to my surviving children: Sepherah
Bradford, Eliza Bradford, Hannah Poe, Mary Case, .... Bird, Exrs: my wife Rachel and Stephen Case. Wits: Thos. Wrenn,
Henry Farley, William Ragsdale.
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Publisher:
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Baltimore, MD : Gateway, 1994 |
p.
87
As
previously noted, Philemon's oldest brother, Richard
Bradford III, apparently moved away from the Bradford family
plantation shortly after his father's death. Richard III, moreover, was
apparently married by October 1729, since the sale of his portion of the
Bradford plantation indicates that, as a part of that sale, his wife
"Rachel" released her dower rights thereto. I do not know Rachel's
maiden name.
After
selling his portion of the family's Charles City County land to Benjamin
Harrison in 1729, Richard III and his wife Rachel moved to Caroline County,
Virginia, where they lived in that country's Drysdale (later St. Asaph's)
Parish. Notably, Caroline County was formed in 1727 from the western portion of
King and Queen County where, as you may recall, Richard Bradford II owned some
land as early as 1699 (and apparently still owned at his death since the
administration of his estate mentions amounts paid to John Holcomb, the sheriff
of King and Queen County). Perhaps it was to Richard II's King and Queen County
land that Richard III moved in 1729.
After
moving to Caroline County, Richard III spent most, if not all, of his life
there (since court records from tht county mention
him as early as 1732 and as late as 1755). Richard's will, dated October 28,
1756, was probated in North Carolina's Granville County Court in January 1757.
That record would seem to suggest that, just before his death, Richard III
moved to live near his brother Philemon who was already living in Granville
County. At least one researcher, however, has suggested that Richard III died
in Caroline County and that the will in Granville County is a duplicate of one
filed and/or probated in Caroline County, Virginia (footnote 181: Sandland II at 16-17, citing Campbell, Colonial
Carolin at 329, 333, 351, 393 and 471. Campbell's
book reports the contents of Caroline County's order books, the only records
from that county to have survived that county's 1836 courthouse fire. The
original order books are on file at the Virginia State Archives in Richmond. Sandlund's reason for thinking that Richard III died in
Caroline County is because Richard III's estate was administered by William
Boulware, who Sandlund discovered was the
undersheriff of Caroline County-
MY NOTE, if this guy had looked at Caroline Co records at all he
would easily have found the 9 Dec. 1756 record above that explicitly proves the
will was probated in Caroline County).
Wherever he died (MY note: there isn't a question about this - it was in
Caroline County, VA), Richard III's will names the following children: Richard
(IV), John, Lephirah, Eliza, Sepharah,
Hanna (who had married a Poe (MY NOTE: it surprises me this fellow did not
easily find out that she married Captain Stephen Poe, son of Simon Poe, SR),
Mary (who had married a Case), and an unnamed daughter who had married a
Bird. One particularly interesting fact
in Richard's will is that he left to his son Richard "all land in Carolina
which I bought of my brother" Philemon.
resume Hargett
August 25, 1769 - proved 1770, Jan. court on oath of Joseph
Parker and James Heflin and Mary Bradford qualified as executrix, Thomas
Bradford as executor, Philemon Bradford wills to have executors pay all
debts and funeral expenses; to daughter Elizabeth Hudspeth, 5 pds. money; to son Thomas, 5 pds.;
to son Philemon, 5 pds.; to daughter Mary Whilte, 5 pds.; to son Richard, 5
pds.; to wife mary, the
plantation where I live, a negro named Gilbert, a negro woman named Hannah,
negroes named Judy, Milley, Ned, Dilcey,
Bob, all stock, household goods, as long as she is my widow or for life; to son
John, the land bought of my son Thos. Bradford on each side of Fort Creek
containing 500 acres; at his mother's death, the negroes Gilbert, Hannah, and Dilce, all stock at William Parnals,
3 cows and calves, 6 sows and pigs, two beds and furniture, and if John
Bradford die under age or without issue, then to go to my other children; to
son David, the 400 acres where I live at the death of his mother, on Poplar
Branch and 30 acres more which is land I bought of my son Thomas Bradford; also
to son David 4 negroes, 6 cows and calves, two beds and furtniture
and, if he died under age or without issue, the property equally divided to all
my children then liveing. Exrs:
wife Mary Bradford, son Thos. Bradford, son Philemon Bradford. Wts: Tamer Heflin , Christopher Darnal, Mary Parker, Joseph Parker
Culpeper County, Virginia
Wulfeck, Dorothy
Ford. Culpeper County, Virginia. Will
Books B and C, Court Suits, Loose Papers, Inscriptions.
Self Published. Naugatuck, Conn.
Jonathan Poe
Samuel Poe
(Browning, Bradford)
5
November 1771
Account
of Sale of Estate of Courtney Norman*, dec'd. to 5 Nov., 1771. Purchasers: Reuben Norman, Ezekiel Norman,
Cornelius Mitchell, John Norman, Caleb Browning, John Corbin, Richard Murffie, Samuel Poe, William Murffie,
Jonathan Poe, William Norman, Miles Murffie,
Alexander Baxter, William Reding, Jessey Thompson, Thurmon Crim, William Daniel,
Jacob Weekley, Thomas Conn, William Corbin, John Weekley, Jeramiah Corbin, James Attwood, James Browning,
William Grimsley, William Day, Miles Murphey, Amry Day, John Norman, Isaac Reding, William
Atwood, John Bradford**, Joseph Boggess, Courtney Norman, John Norman, Mary Norman.
*Jonathan Poe and Samuel Poe (see above). Mary Browning (c.1720
- after 1779) married January 21, 1737/8 in Orange County to Courtney C. Norman
(c.1720 - c1770) in Culpeper County. His will was probated March 13, 1770 in
Culpeper County, mentioning his wife and children. He was a son of Isaac Norman
and Frances Courtney, and a brother of Frances Norman who marred his wife's
brother, Francis Browning. Mary Browning was the daughter of Francis Browning,
Jr. 1696-1775 (who administered the estate of Samuel Poe).
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DocumentRef |
AN/LB 222/1/10 |
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RefNo |
AN/LB/222/1/10 |
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Title |
Cause papers, Bampton v. |
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DatesOfCreation |
Feb. 1612 post |
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Extent |
2 items |
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ContentDescription |
Instance cause, Thomas Bampton against William Bradford alias Swanne of Nottingham. |
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Language |
Latin |
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DocumentRef |
AN/PB 326/9/20 |
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RefNo |
AN/PB/326/9/20 |
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Title |
churchwarden presentment, Kelham, |
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DatesOfCreation |
3.10.1625 |
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Extent |
1 f |
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ContentDescription |
Churchwardens and minister [not
named] present the following: a misdemeanour committed
in the house of Rich. Hill on 23 September by Rich. Bradford and Rich. Hill's
wife, and further a suspicion of adultery between them; John Bradford for
suspicion of adultery with Ann Whitton, wife of Will. Whitton; Jon Kerke and Margaret Elis, wife of Alexander Elis, for
suspicion of adultery; one Rich. Kerke got Ann Midleton with child before he was married; Robert Townend
in like manner with Alis Bradley and afterwards
married her. |
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Term |
social conduct, disorder |
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Term |
sexual conduct |
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Term |
children, illegitimate |
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DocumentRef |
AN/PB 341/5/3 |
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RefNo |
AN/PB/341/5/3 |
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Title |
churchwarden presentment,
Bawtry, Retford deanery, 19.10.1637 |
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DatesOfCreation |
19.10.1637 |
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Extent |
1 f |
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ContentDescription |
Churchwardens present the
following: William Bradford of Osterfeild
[Austerfield] for 'leadinge Breckons
with his waine' on St Luke's Day in time of divine
service; £11 bestowed this year on our church. |
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Term |
religious observance,
Sabbath-breaking |
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Term |
buildings, churches, church
repairs |
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DocumentRef |
AN/LB 228/2/56 |
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RefNo |
AN/LB/228/2/56 |
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Title |
Libel in cause Janson v. |
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DatesOfCreation |
Jun. 1641 post |
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Extent |
2 ff |
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ContentDescription |
Instance cause, Nicholas Janson,
clerk, rector of Kelham, against Richard Bradford
of the same. |
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Language |
Latin |
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Language |
English |
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DocumentRef |
AN/PB 329/2/27 |
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RefNo |
AN/PB/329/2/27 |
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Title |
churchwarden presentment, |
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DatesOfCreation |
20.10.1663 |
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Extent |
1 f |
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ContentDescription |
Churchwardens present the
following: Wm Cooke is famed to have gotten a bastard by Frances Fitchwiliams; John Buny and his
wife, Richard Bradford and his wife, and Widow Buttridge,
for drinking in time of divine service at the house of Nicholas Trollow; Nicholas Trollow for
entertaining them; Thomas Townend, John Taylor, Robt [crossed out and
replaced with 'Xpopher'] Stawe,
and Wm Crawshaw, for the same offence; [added in another hand at the end of
the presentment bill:] the old churchwardens for not providing a terrier of
glebe lands, and for not providing a register for the same of preachers and
their licences. |
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Term |
sexual conduct |
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Term |
children, illegitimate |
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Term |
religious observance,
Sabbath-breaking |
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Term |
parishes, parish officials,
churchwardens |
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DocumentRef |
Ne D 3045-3046 |
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RefNo |
NeD/709-4477/2748-3742/3042-3060/3045-3046 |
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Title |
Lease and release from Sir
Matthew Jenison to Richard Robotham of 2 parcels of
land in Balderton Gate, |
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DatesOfCreation |
3.2.1693-4.2.1693 |
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Extent |
2 membranes |
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ContentDescription |
First Party: Sir Matthew Jenison
of |
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Language |
English |
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Term |
estate business, conveyances, |
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PhysicalDescription |
Two pendant applied seals - red
wax |
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DocumentRef |
Ne D 2883-2884 |
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RefNo |
NeD/709-4477/2748-3742/2883-2889/2883-2884 |
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Title |
Lease and release from
Richard Bradford and son to Thomas Sharpe of a messuage
in Balderton Gate, |
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DatesOfCreation |
10.12.1695-11.12.1695 |
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Extent |
2 membranes |
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ContentDescription |
First Party: Richard Bradford,
gentleman, of |
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Language |
English |
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Term |
estate business, conveyances, |
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Term |
estate business, tenants, |
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Condition |
good |
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PhysicalDescription |
Four applied seals - red wax |
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DocumentRef |
Pw2 Hy 1484 |
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RefNo |
Pw2Hy/1484 |
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Title |
Letter from R. Bradford, |
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DatesOfCreation |
3.12.1714 |
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Extent |
2 ff |
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ContentDescription |
Requests a favour
as he has to go abroad and will be unable to attend the Council Board
himself; states that the sheriffs for the Welsh Counties are to be chosen at
the next council; refers to the nominations for Montgomeryshire;
asks him to arrange for Mr Amler
to be excused; requests that should Mr Blaney and Mr Williams also be excused, that he propose either Mr Robert Phillips or Mr John
Scott. |
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Term |
local government, Welsh,
sheriffs, appointment of |
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Term |
Welsh affairs, sheriffs,
appointment of |
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Term |
appointments, Welsh, sheriffs |
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DocumentRef |
Ne D 3462 |
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RefNo |
NeD/709-4477/2748-3742/3456-3464/3462 |
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Title |
Assignment from William
Radford to Bernard Wilson of a mortgage by demise of a messuage
in Market Place and extending into Carter Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire; 22
Dec. 1736 |
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DatesOfCreation |
22.12.1736 |
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Extent |
1 membrane |
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ContentDescription |
First Party: William Radford,
ironmonger of |
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Language |
English |
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Term |
financial affairs, mortgages, |
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Term |
financial affairs, mortgages,
assignment of |
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PhysicalDescription |
One applied seal - red wax |
No.
6 Brewhouse Yard was built in the early 1700s; a recent chance discovery
(fallen out of the rafters!) adds to our knowledge of Tobias WILDBOARE, a
prominent Dissenter of the Congregational Meeting House, Castle Gate and the
owner of a surveying instrument now in the Science Museum, London, which
carries an inscription of his name and the year 1683. Tobias' father, Samuel,
was a wealthy cloth worker, leaving an inventory of £39. 7s. 6d. including his
books. The house had three garrets and numerous chambers. Tobias' sister
married Thomas BRADFORD, the first
known Nottingham clockmaker.