| Description | Parties:
1) Thomas Butterfield Whitaker, Dowthorpe, gentleman; Thomas Whitaker the younger, Dowthorpe, gentleman, and his wife Susannah Whitaker, and Elizabeth Whitaker, Dowthorpe, spinster
2) William Cowper, Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex, gentleman
3) Charles Howard, Melbourne, parish of Thornton, gentleman
Property: Messuage at Stamford Bridge, in parish of Catton, and close of meadow adjoining containing 5 acres 1 rood 18 perches, and the orchard containing 1 rood 33 perches, close called Pitmires or Pitmire Flatt containing 4 acres 1 rood 37 perches, Stone Pitt or Stone Hill Close containing 4 acres 3 roods and 39 perches, Crossland Close or Cross Close containing 3 acres 1 rood 20 perches; The Ing at bottom of close called Stone Hill Close containing 1 acre 1 rood 22 perches, lands in Long Cross Field containing 7 acres 1 rood 5 perches, Reckondale Close containing 1 acre 2 roods 7 perches; Turf Carr Flatt containing 8 acres 6 perches; land in the common containing 26 acres 2 roods 24 perches
Consideration: 10 s
Witnesses: Josiah Prickett, Marmaduke Prickett, James Jeffreys, clerk to Messrs Watkins and Cowper, Lincoln's Inn
Thomas Butterfield Whitaker, Susannah Whitaker and Elizabeth Whitaker are the only surviving children of William Whitaker, late of Storthwaite, parish of Thornton, gentleman, and Susannah Whitaker, his late wife, formerly Susannah Wilkinson, she being the niece and devisee in will of Thomas Butterfield of Wilberfoss, gentleman, deceased
Memorial registered at Beverley, Book CP, Page 190, Number 287 |