Title:
Prenuptial settlement (feoffment)
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
HAYNES AND HARRISON FAMILIES OF COPFORD HALL
Level: Series
Deeds, etc., of properties in Copford, Birch and Stanway
Level: Sub-Series
Deeds of Nevers alias Pages (later Hill Farm) in Copford, Birch and Stanway
Scope and Content:
Jeremy Fitch, stapler and citizen of London to Jeremy Reeve of Dunton and John Fitch of Braintree, gentlemen

Moiety of freehold meadow (3 roods), sometime of Richard Wordeswort and formerly parcel of the possessions of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, in Stanway, abutting on lands late of Christopher Jenney, esquire on east and north and meadow late of Bartholomew Brock on south and west; moiety of messuage called Nevers alias Pages in Great Birch and all the lands (130 acres and appurtenances thereto belonging, and a moiety of all other property of the said Jeremy Fitch in Great Birch, Copford and Stanway

In trust to the use of Jeremy Fitch and Hannah Letten, his intended wife, for lives in survivorship, with remainder to their joint issue, or, in default thereof, to the right heirs of Jeremy Fitch

Recites: that a marriage has been arranged between Jeremy Fitch as above and Hannah Letten of Dunton, spinster

Witnesses: John Reeve, John Harris

Seals: (i) ?an hour glass; (ii) ?a thistle
Dates of Creation:
3 November 1652
Extent:
1 item
Related Unit of Description:
[For other deeds of Nevers alias Pages see D/DU 161/168-173, D/DU 161/400-405, D/DU 161/477 and D/DU 161/479-485]

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Personal Names Hannah
Letten 		Prenuptial settlement of Jeremy Fitch, stapler and citizen of London, and Hannah Letten of Dunton, 1652
Personal Names Jeremy
Fitch 		Prenuptial settlement of Jeremy Fitch, stapler and citizen of London, and Hannah Letten of Dunton, 1652
Place Names Birch Prenuptial settlement, moieties of property in Great Birch, Copford and Stanway, 1652
Place Names Copford Prenuptial settlement, moieties of property in Great Birch, Copford and Stanway, 1652
Place Names Stanway Prenuptial settlement, moieties of property in Great Birch, Copford and Stanway, 1652
Document Types Deed Prenuptial settlement of moieties of property in Great Birch, Copford and Stanway, 1652
Document Types Pre-nuptial settlement Moieties of property Great Birch, Copford and Stanway, 1652