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Thomas Porter (1759) - Tenant Records

About 1795 Thomas and Alice (Longton) Porter moved their family from Ulnes Walton, LAN to the Forest-of-Bowland area in the West Riding of Yorkshire.  Using Parish Records and inference, Thomas was a tenant on the Estate of the Duke of Buccleuch/Queensbury, and the Right Honourable, Earl of Beaulieu.  The following information is from the 1802 - 1829 Land Tax Assessment for the Township of the Forest of Bowland (The assessment amounts are written in English pounds, shillings, and pence.)  It is surmised that the farm Thomas Porter occupied was the New Hey Farm, N.W. of Whitewell, West Riding, Yorkshire.  It appears his son, Thomas ,took over the lease and remained on the land for many years.

            1802                 tenant              Thomas Porter              Assessment:     2.18.2

            1803                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.18.2

            Assessors: Thomas Porter, William Brimand

            Collectors:  Thomas Porter, William Brimand

            Confirmed by - the 30th day of May, 1804

            1805                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.18.2

            1807                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.18.2

            1808                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.18.2

            Land tax assessment for the Township of Slaidburn 1810/11, Lower Division, Forest of Bowland

            Estate of the Dowager Duchess of Buccleugh/Queensbury

            1810/11            tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.18.2

            1814                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.18.2

            1815/16            tenant              Thomas Porter                                     2.18.2

            1817                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13

            1818                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1819                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1820                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1821                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1822                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1823                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1824                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1825                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1827                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2

            1829                 tenant              Thomas Porter                                      2.13.2**

** This is likely Thomas Porter Jr (1789).  His father, Thomas Porter (1759) died in 1828.  No rents recorded for 1828, likely due to the probate and transfer to his son.

Probate of the Last Will and Testament of Lawrence Sumner, including Quit Claim on property transfered to Thomas Porter of Ulnes Walton, LAN, 1718

Thomas Porter (1675) secured a Smithy and accompanying parcels of land

 in the Ulnes Walton Township in 1718.  The following document

 outlines the agreement between the Sumnor family and Thomas

 Porter.

Probate of the Last Will and Testament of Lawrence Sumner, including Quit Claim on property transfered to Thomas Porter of Ulnes Walton, LAN, 1718.

Transcription

TO all Christian People to whom this present writing shall to wit Lawrence Sumnor of Leyland in the County of Lancaster ~ ~ husbandman John Sumnor of Ulnes Walton in the said County husbandman sons of John Sumnor of Ulnes Walton in the said County Yeoman George Parker of Leyland aforesaid husbandman and Mary his wife daughter of the said John Sumnor the father and Lawry Sumnor younger son of Lawry [Lawrence] Sumnor late of Ulnes Walton aforesaid Yeoman ~ ~ ~ deceased _____  WHEREAS Lawrence Sumnor late of Ulnes Walton aforesaid Yeoman deceased by his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred ninety seven as touching all his lands tenements hereditaments in Ulnes Walton aforesaid which he held in fee did declare it to be his will and mind and thereby gave devised and bequeathed the same unto the eldest son of his son Lawry and his heirs forever with divers  other remaindors over he and the several other persons in remainder discharging his Executors of all his debts and all such legacies as wert thereafter mentioned and by the same will he amongst other things gave and bequeathed unto the Children then born of the said John Sumnor the father who was son to the Testator Lawrence Sumnor four pounds apiece when and as they severally attained to the age of twenty and one years to wit the first named Lawrence Mary John the son and also to Robert and Elizabeth both since deceased and if any of them died before they attained to the age of twenty one years their parts ~ ~ ~ to be divided amongst the survivors and the said Testator likewise gave unto the two younger children of his son Lawry the sum of twenty poungs equally betwixt them to be paid them by their older Brother when he attained to one and twenty years of age and of the said will made and appointed the said John Sumnor the fathor and William Chisnall and John Miller both ____ declared Executors as by the said will (Relations being thereunto had may more fully appear AND wheras Lawrence eldest son of the said Lawry Sumnor to whom the said Real Estate was first devised and bequeathed in tail by the said will is since dead whereby and by virtue of said will the said Estate destended or otherwise same to John Sumnor – the second son of the said Lawry Sumnor who had absolutely sold and conveyed the same to THOMAS PORTER of Ulnes Walton aforesaid Blacksmith in fee AND whereas the said Lawrence Sumnor and John Sumnor the sons of the said John Sumnor the fathor and also the said George Parker and Mary his wife have already received from the said THOMAS PORTER out of the purchase money for which the said Estate was sold the respective legacies mentioned to be to them given by said Will as aforesaid and the said Lawry Sumnor the son hath likewise at or before his Sealing and Delivery of these presents received and had of and from the said THOMAS PORTER the legacy mentioned to be to him given and bequeathed as aforesaid  NOW know ye that the said Lawrence Sumnor and John Sumnor the sons of the said John Sumner the father and the said George Parker and Lawry Sumnor the son do hereby respectively acknowledge the receipt and payment of their said several Legacies and do own and declare the sum to be in full satisfaction and discharge as now of all Legacies and sums of money given and bequeathed to them as any of them by the said Will as aforesaid as of all other the claims and demands of them the said Lawrence Sumnor and John Sumnor the sons of the said John Sumner the father George Parker Mary his wife and Lawry Sumnor the son or any of them forth or out of the Real or person Estate of the said Lawrence Sumnor the Testator by virture of the said Will or otherwise howsoever and in Consideration thereof and for divers other good causes and considerations they the said – Lawrence Sumnor and John Sumnor the sons of the said John Sumnor the fathor George Parker Mary his wife and Lawry Sumnor the son  HAVE and each and every one of them hath received released and for every quit claimed and by those present do and each and every one of them doth remise release and forever quit claim ____ to the said THOMAS PORTER his heirs Executors divises and assigns as to the said John Sumnor the fathor his Executors and Administrators All and all manner of action and actions cause and causes of action debts duties accounts reckonings sum and sums of money Legacies gifts bequests claims and demands whatsoever in law or equity which they the said Lawrence Sumnor and John Sumnor the sons of the said John Sumnor the father George Parker Mary his wife and Lawry Sumner the son or any of then now have or hath or is or are entitled to or which they or any of them or the Executors Administrators or legal representatives of them or any of them can or may at any time or times hereafter have claim challenge sue or pretend to insist on or demand from or against the said THOMAS PORTER and John Sumnor the father or either of them their or either of their heirs Executors or Administrators forth or out of the Estate of the said Testator by virtue of the said Will or any Legacy gift or bequest therin contained or otherwise touching the same WITNESSES where of the said Lawrence Sumnor and John Sumnor the sons of the said John Sumnor the father George Parker Mary his wife and Lawry Sumnor the son have hereunto set their hands and seals the Eleventh Day of October Anno Diem 1718.

 PORTER’S SMITHY

Within the Lancashire Triangle

Situated northeast of Croston, LAN, and north of Eccleston, LAN

THE HARE AND HOUND, 
NEWTON-IN-BOWLAND, YORKSHIRE

http://www.chrisspencer.co.uk/OldPostcards.html

Birthplace of Alice (Holgate) Porter, 1816, daughter of Francis and Martha (Laycock) Holgate.  Alice was married to William Porter at Waddington.