Colfox of Bridport
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Colfox family, wool merchants, of Bridport, Dorset
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Contents:
A collection of deeds, correspondence, legal papers, family papers and other documents relating to the Colfox and other related families.
DEEDS
D/COL/T [n.d.]
BEAMINSTER [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T1 1816
Contents:
Arable called South Field. (Hearn to Colfox).
BRADPOLE [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T2 1744
Contents:
Messuages and land called Batch Furland, Baunton Sheard, Ryden, North Close, North Mead, East Close, The Moore and Dodhams. (Brown and Lovelace to Pitfield).
BRIDPORT [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T3 1663
Contents:
Messuage on North side of East Street. (Colfox to Hansford).
[no title]
D/COL/T4 1767 - 1793
Contents:
Messuage on South side of West Street:-
Bull and Keech to John Carter.
John Carter to Joshua Carter (his son).
Warr to Carter. (Agreement to erect a house in West Street where former Carter house was burnt down. Note of land Warr bought, undated).
[no title]
D/COL/T5 1876
Contents:
House in Barrack St. (Fire Insurance Policy. T. & W. Colfox).
BURTON BRADSTOCK [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T6 1793
Contents:
Copyhold messuage. (Green, Bishop, Fudge).
LYME REGIS [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T7 1865
Contents:
Bakehouse in Broad St. (Not executed). (T. & W. Colfox, Dunster, Upjohn).
NETHERBURY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T8 1849 - 1890
Contents:
Deeds and papers concerning Kershay and Brimsham Farms. (Steele, Cox, Budden, Winter, Ackerman, T. & W. Colfox, Dunn). Limbury Farmhouse (T. Colfox). Survey of Hill Farm, part of Slape Manor, undated.
STOKE ABBOT [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T9 1869 - 1883
Contents:
Blackney and Glitney Farms (Colfox, Hussey, Way), with letter.
SYMONDSBURY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T10 1675
Contents:
Abstract of Trust Deed of Thorncombe, belonging to Churchwardens of Bridport.
DEVON [no ref. or date]
AXMINSTER [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T11 1786
Contents:
3 dwellings at Castle Hill, part of manor of Haccomb.
LONDON [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T12 1766 - 1858
Contents:
Property near St. Bride's Churchyard in Fleet Street, concerns A. Abbott & later his daughter Hannah Colfox. Several plans of property; engraving of St. Bride's Church shows Abbott's shop.
MIDDLESEX [no ref. or date]
BLOOMSBURY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/T13 1808 - 1881
Contents:
12 Wilmot St., Brunswick Square. (Abbott, Colfox, Cotton, Goulden, Sammons, Gosling, Cudd).
FAMILY
D/COL/F [n.d.]
COLFOX FAMILY [no ref. or date]
Samuel Colfox [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F1 1766 - 1778
Contents:
Financial and other memoranda of ? Samuel Colfox.
Thomas Collins Colfox [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F2 1755 - 1823
Contents:
Baptism certificate, receipt for legacy to Mary Colfox and Thomas Barrett paid by T.C. Colfox, executor of will of John Colfox, his father; declaration by E. Waters and grant to her by T.C. Colfox of 2 annuities issuing out of property called Kellands in Kingsland, Netherbury; agreement concerning annuity for Hallett family; annuity bonds - A. Slade, R. Chenevix, T.C. Colfox; release of legacies to T.C. Colfox by Elizabeth & J.C. Lee, Harriet & William Colfox under will of Joseph Stone, and by Elizabeth Symes to her Trustees, Joseph Cornish & T.C. Colfox, under will of Ann Slade; notice from Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, concerning Lydia Shipard (T.C. Colfox a creditor); lines written (by T.C.C.?) on hearing of the late enterprise of the Constitutionalists in Spain (1823?); signature (cut off document).
[no title]
D/COL/F3 1769 - 1770
Contents:
Arithmetic and geometry books.
[no title]
D/COL/F4 1781 - 1833
Contents:
Private bills and receipts. Include receipts for 5% annuities, 1797; and bills for assessed taxes.
[no title]
D/COL/F5 1783 - 1784
Contents:
Articles of agreement between T.C. Colfox, Samuel and Martha Colfox; receipts for payments by T.C. Colfox to Samuel and Martha Colfox; receipt for payment made to Hannah Carter by T.C. Colfox from the joint effects of Samuel and Martha Colfox.
[no title]
D/COL/F6 1800 - 1864
Contents:
Ready Reckoner of John Colfox, later of T.C. Colfox, undated; "The Family Book Keeper or House Keeper's Assistant": includes a ready reckoner, much useful information and accounts for purchases made; cash book of wages paid to servants at Rax, 1821-34, with jottings on wages, 1861-64.
[no title]
D/COL/F7 1801 - 1811
Contents:
Payments made by T.C. Colfox as Executor of the will of Hannah Collins with previous payments to her for interest on a mortgage; receipts from "late Hannah Collins" for the Watch and Land Taxes; bill for the erection of her tombstone; list of legatees under will of Hannah Collins; receipts for payments of legacies to Eliza Hounsell, Mary Coppock and Eliza Creese; unidentified fragment of letter, perhaps copy in William Colfox's writing, mentioning decease of an aunt & her legacies. (Possibly referring to Hannah Collins?).
[no title]
D/COL/F8 1808 - 1835
Contents:
Excise Office permits to import wines and spirits, and East India Company permit for importation of tea.
[no title]
D/COL/F9 1809, 1820
Contents:
Receipt and discharge for legacy duty paid on residue of personal estate of William Carter, deceased, of Sierra Leone, exhibited by T.C. Colfox, Executor.
[no title]
D/COL/F10 1835 - 1836
Contents:
2 copies of the funeral address of Rev. Philip Harwood, on the burial of T.C. Colfox; inventory of his possessions; epitaphs on T.C. Colfox and his faithful servant, Betty Sprake.
Harriet Colfox [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F11 1818 - 1819
Contents:
Journal of a visit to London, Dec. 1818 - May 1819.
William Colfox [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F12 1798, 1829
Contents:
Arithmetic and geometry book, 1798; at end: pothooks made by his son Thomas Colfox, junior, 1829.
[no title]
D/COL/F13 1809 - 1849
Contents:
Bills and receipts, including bills for assessed taxes, and a bill for Harriet Colfox, 1824.
[no title]
D/COL/F14 1814 - 1849
Contents:
Notice that Wm. Colfox has been chosen by ballot to serve in the local militia of Dorset; letters of administration granted to him for administering effects of Joseph Stone, his uncle, (see D/COL/F52); order and appointment of the Court of Insolvent Debtors concerning Henry Booth King, addressed to W. Colfox; summons as Juror to Dorchester Quarter Sessions.
Hannah Colfox [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F15 1814
Contents:
Journal of Hannah Colfox (née Abbott) during visit to London with Harriet and William Colfox, 1814. Mentions visits of foreign royalty: Czar Alexander, his Prussian Majesty, the Emperor, the Duke of Oldenburg and Blucher.
[no title]
D/COL/F16 1846
Contents:
Reports on Phrenological Development of William and Hannah Colfox.
[no title]
D/COL/F17 1860
Contents:
Will and codicil of Hannah Colfox addressed to her sons Thomas and William.
Thomas Colfox [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F18 1876 - 1886
Contents:
Passport for Thomas Colfox (1823-86) his wife and daughter signed by Earl of Derby; his obituary, notice in the press.
William Colfox [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F19 1841 - 1855
Contents:
Essay on disobedience, written whilst at school in Bristol; diary, 1855.
[no title]
D/COL/F20 1849
Contents:
Accounts of Expenses to and from London.
Sir Philip Colfox [no ref.]
(b. 1888)[no title]
D/COL/F21 1940
Contents:
Notice in the 'Bridport News' of his 52nd birthday in 1940.
Various members of Colfox family [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F22 1781 - 1847
Contents:
Bills, recipients unknown. Mostly for inns or carriage of goods. Some undated.
[no title]
D/COL/F23 1794 - 1867
Contents:
'On the past, 1794' - poem in hand of William Colfox (senior); 'Lines on a Turtle', 1840, by Henry Hallett; Louisa Colfox's toast, Christmas 1867; charade, printed and undated; dialect poem, undated; notes by G.M. Mansel on Dorset dialect words and their meanings: some used by William Barnes and Hardy, undated.
[no title]
D/COL/F24 1813
Contents:
Recipes: for gripes in a horse (in the handwriting of T.C. Colfox), for the bite of a mad dog, undated.
[no title]
D/COL/F25 1902
Contents:
Exercise book of Alice Lee Colfox containing script of Christmas mumming play. With letter of 1902 from Folk-Lore Society to say that it is being returned, a copy having been taken.
[no title]
D/COL/F26 ND
Contents:
Jottings in hand of Thomas Colfox junior (1823-86): mentions deeds in which Stephen Colefox, Burgess of Bridport, was a trustee (1622) and property at Broad Oak (1633). Further jottings give names of various members of family and dates of birth of a few.
[no title]
D/COL/F27 ND
Contents:
Copy epitaphs of Elizabeth Lee, Harriet Colfox, Hannah and William Colfox and Anne Billett, nurse to Thomas and William Colfox, junior.
ABBOTT FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F28 1780 - 1809
Contents:
Private account book of A. Abbott.
[no title]
D/COL/F29 1780 - 1811
Contents:
Admission by Redemption of A. Abbott to the freedom of the City of London; acrostic extempore by A. Abbott of Fleet St., called the "Composition and Character of the First Consul" (1802 or 1803); catalogue of auction sale of goods of A. Abbott on moving from Clapham to Dorset in 1811; lines written by A. Abbott about the character of a potter.
[no title]
D/COL/F30 1798
Contents:
Account of a five week holiday in Dorset and Wiltshire by the Abbotts - writer uncertain - probably A. Abbott.
[no title]
D/COL/F31 1803 - 1855
Contents:
Bills and receipts of A. Abbott, (including school bills for his children, 1803 and 1810-11); of Mrs. Betty Abbott, 1813 (3); Hannah Abbott, 1812, 1819, 1820 (10) later Mrs. Colfox 1829, 1830 and 1855.
[no title]
D/COL/F32 1815, 1821
Contents:
Insurance policy of A. Abbott for his personal estate worth £500, made over to W. Colfox on his marriage with A. Abbott's daughter Hannah, 1821; payment of annuity to John Abbott, son of A. Abbott.
ANNE BILLETT [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F33 ND
Contents:
Permit for Anne Billett (nurse to Wm. Colfox's sons) to be admitted 'below the bar to see the House of Lords' free of charge. (See also D/COL/F27).
CARTER FAMILY [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
(Relatives of the Colfox family. In 1745 John Carter married Hannah Colfox, whilst Betty Carter married Andrew Abbott, whose daughter Hannah married William Colfox in 1821).
[no title]
D/COL/F34 1739 - 1834
Contents:
Dates of births and deaths in Carter family.
[no title]
D/COL/F35 1747 - 1763
Contents:
Will of George Carter, 1747, and probate 1748; releases of 2 legacies to John Carter, his executor, in 1763.
[no title]
D/COL/F36 1776 - 1783
Contents:
Bills and receipts of the Carter family.
[no title]
D/COL/F37 1785 - 1788
Contents:
Will of John Carter, currier of Bridport, making J. Gundry & T.C. Colfox Trustees of Annuities and Joshua Carter executor; with releases of legacies by John Carter, Thomas Carter, William Carter and Mr. & Mrs. Abbott.
[no title]
D/COL/F38 1787, 1792
Contents:
Bond to secure £26 and interest (J. Leech, Joshua Carter); account of Mr. Claw with Elizabeth and Joshua Carter.
[no title]
D/COL/F39 1816
Contents:
Poems belonging to Eliza Frances Carter (1793-1822), sister to Maria.
[no title]
D/COL/F40a 1815 - 1831
Contents:
Commonplace book of Maria Carter.
[no title]
D/COL/F40b 1818 - 1821
Contents:
Diaries of Maria Carter, 2nd daughter of Joshua Carter. These record the uneventful with the important happenings in her life: visits paid, and books read; births, deaths, marriages and illnesses in her family; occasional glimpses of royalty, or an insight into contemporary politics given. (See M.B. Weinstock: "Portrait of a Bridport Lady". Dorset Year Book, 1960-1).
[no title]
D/COL/F41 1822 - 1825
Contents:
Diaries of Maria Carter.
[no title]
D/COL/F42 1826 - 1830
Contents:
Diaries of Maria Carter.
[no title]
D/COL/F43 1831 - 1834
Contents:
Diaries of Maria Carter.
COLLINS FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F44 1721 - 1766
Contents:
Release of legacy by Mary Garrett to James Garrett, her brother, witnessed by Thomas and Esther Collins; record of deaths of Thomas & Esther Collins and their daughter Esther.
HENVILLE FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F45 1725 - 1799
Contents:
List of births & deaths of seven children born to William and Joyce Henville between 1725 and 1738; extract from the P.C.C. Registry of the will of Sarah Henville (one of the children) of Furley, Netherbury, aunt of Elizabeth Carter, proved 1799.
HOUNSELL FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F46 1772 - 1799
Contents:
Marriage Settlement of William Hounsell and Mary Colfox (J. & W. Hounsell; J. Coppock; S.J. & M. Colfox); promissory note of William Hounsell to pay £1500 to T.C. Colfox and William Downe, and bonds of 1799 concerning the same parties.
LEE FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F47 1814 - 1854
Contents:
Bills and receipts of Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Lee.
[no title]
D/COL/F48 1831 - 1858
Contents:
Note of J.C. Lee's birth in 1764. Bond (T.R. Bassett, Maria Odiarne of Sante Foy, Gironde, who later married P.C. Lee); draft on Brussels Exchange for £40 for the account of J.C. Lee; address reprinted from 'The Christian Reformer' on the death of Elizabeth Lee, by John Lettis Short.
MILLER FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F49 ND
Contents:
Photograph of Michael Miller, nephew of Hannah Colfox née Abbott, who died 1892 aged 78, undated.
ANN PITT [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F50 1803
Contents:
Will of Ann Pitt of Yeovil. Mentions A. Abbott and Carter family.
STONE FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/F51 1790
Contents:
Marriage settlement of John Coppock and Mary Stone. (J. Gundry, J. Pike).
[no title]
D/COL/F52 1794 - 1796
Contents:
List of household goods sold to R. Golding by J. Stone; inventory of household goods in Mr. Golding's apartment which were the property of J. Stone, valued by Mr. G. Jeffrey.
[no title]
D/COL/F53 1950's
Contents:
"The Colfox Family Papers" by Evelyn H.C. Hulls and Constance A. Hare. Also "Some Notes on Andrew Abbott and his family" by Evelyn H.C. Hulls. Two copies of Colfox "Notes and Queries" - forbears whose relation to the family tree is uncertain. (Typescript).
[no title]
D/COL/F54 ND
Contents:
Genealogical tree of Colfox family, 1546-1924, and Collins family from 1729 - mid 19th century. (Photocopies).
CORRESPONDENCE
D/COL/C [n.d.]
THOMAS COLLINS COLFOX [no ref.]
(1755 - 1835)[no title]
D/COL/C1 1807 - 1816
Contents:
From Andrew Abbott. Personal and family news intermingled with financial and political news: corruption in high places; Moscow Campaign, 1812; the 1814 peace. Much about the Abbotts' search for a house in the Bridport area.
[no title]
D/COL/C2 1807 - 1826
Contents:
From his daughters Harriet Colfox and Elizabeth (who in 1810 married J.C. Lee). One letter of 1809 written by them jointly; Elizabeth wrote those of 1814 and 1819; remainder are from Harriet. Deal with family matters, though letter of 1824 includes note from Robert Hills (see D/COL/C20) concerning stock; another of 1824 includes remarks on wool trade.
[no title]
D/COL/C3 1808 - 1812
Contents:
(From W. Stephens concerning lodgings at Seatown, 1808. From S. & B. Shaw: concerns money matters, 1808, and American War, 1812.
[no title]
D/COL/C4 1809
Contents:
From S. Board: false reports about what Board was reputed to have said about T.C. Colfox's place of worship, with a copy of T. Colfox's answer showing his pleasure at finding reports false.
[no title]
D/COL/C5 1809 - 1810
Contents:
From T. Carter in Rio de Janeiro & Buenos Ayres: mention of revolt of S. American Colonies and much of private interest. Also one from Charles Carter in Rio.
[no title]
D/COL/C6 1810
Contents:
From K. Smith, sending congratulations on marriage of T.C. Colfox's daughter Elizabeth to John Channon Lee; character of J.C. Lee well suited for matrimony.
[no title]
D/COL/C7 1810 - 1813
Contents:
From G. Atkins. Much concerns new lease of Rax House, Bridport, by its owner Mr. Atkins, on death of a Mrs. Arnold. In 1813 owed T.C. Colfox some money. Receipt for rent paid by T.C. Colfox in December 1813.
[no title]
D/COL/C8 1811 - 1815
Contents:
From G. Barclay. Concerned with the stock market and political situation. Hopes to stand for Parliament. Speculates on Regent, state of Ireland, prospect of bloodshed in Portugal in 1811, and later on American War (1812-14) and the Peace. In 1811 talks of suspension of payments by the Banks, as crisis is looming. Mentions death of Charles Sturt, M.P., in 1812. With scrap of letter written to T.C. Colfox in 1801.
[no title]
D/COL/C9 1811 - 1817
Contents:
From C. Sturt, M.P., and son (?) with one copy letter of T.C. Colfox. Much concerns politics. In 1811 discusses religious problems, Peninsular War and position in N.W. Europe. In February 1812, interesting account of remedies taken for the Regent's illness. (He suffered from numbness in his arm, and every day an ox was killed and as it fell he would thrust his naked arm up to the shoulder in the animal's paunch to restore circulation: so far, that is after two months, this has had no effect). Copy letter of T.C. Colfox states that he can no longer support Mr. Sturt since Sturt does not support civil and religious liberty as he once promised, 1817.
[no title]
D/COL/C10 1812 - 1819
Contents:
From J.C. Lee. Mostly personal with mention also of money owed. Some undated. One from Simon and Jemima Lee, 1819.
[no title]
D/COL/C11 1813, 1818
Contents:
From W. Kerridge concerning money he owed. Second letter of 1818 addressed to T.C. Colfox and Mrs. E. Lee.
[no title]
D/COL/C12 1813, 1823
Contents:
From E.B. Portman of Bryanston, about lawsuit and his desire for peace. From Mr. Ham on the death of Mr. Portman and concerning handbills antagonistic to his son's election as M.P. for Dorset in 1823.
[no title]
D/COL/C13 1814 - 1826
Contents:
From his son William Colfox. Interesting account of visit to London of foreign royalty in 1814, and fluctuations of wool trade; letter of 1817 concerns exploit of horse (with modern copy). Letter of 1826 concerns stock, wool and family affairs.
[no title]
D/COL/C14 1816
Contents:
From A. Seward: contains account of lion attacking stage-coach at Winterslow.
[no title]
D/COL/C15 1818, 1819
Contents:
From E. Davis: two appeals for help from Fleet Prison.
[no title]
D/COL/C16 1819, 1832
Contents:
From T. Willis, about wool trade, with some domestic news. Also copy of letter sent by T.C. Colfox in 1832 proclaiming Pitt as 'father of our present evils', and necessity of Reform Bill.
[no title]
D/COL/C17 1820
Contents:
From J. Phelps concerning property and effects of the late A. Abbott.
[no title]
D/COL/C18 1820
Contents:
From R. Willson, personal.
[no title]
D/COL/C19 1820 - 1832
Contents:
From J. Christie. Copy letter T.C. Colfox sent to him in 1820, asking for advice on stock problems; where can he re-invest his English stock abroad? Does not trust the governments of the Holy Alliance and suggests Spain as reasonably stable. The reign of George III was 'wicked, cruel, iniquitous' and pauperism is now increasing apace. John Christie wrote in 1831 to pay his debts, and there is a copy of William Colfox's reply for his father, who expresses hope for England now liberal principles are gaining ground. Another copy letter from William Colfox, mainly a dictation by his father of his Unitarian principles. T.C. Colfox sees Harriet Martineau as the prophet of Unitarianism, 1832.
[no title]
D/COL/C20 1821 - 1824
Contents:
From R. Hills (stockbroker?) about financial affairs, and foreign politics in relation to foreign bonds. Copy letter to Mr. Hills with T.C. Colfox's hopes for independence of S. America, and attack on the 'heart-rending system' of Calvinism, undated and unsigned.
[no title]
D/COL/C21 1821 - 1827
Contents:
Copies of letters to Mrs. E. Near about executorship of a will and her financial troubles and debts. More drafts of letters to her can be found in T.C. Colfox's business letter copies. (D/COL/B9).
[no title]
D/COL/C22 1821, 1829
Contents:
From S. Anstice: domestic affairs and mention of Colfox-Abbott wedding, 1821; copy of two letters sent to S. Anstice by T.C. Colfox, 1829.
[no title]
D/COL/C23 1824
Contents:
From T. Mealing, wigmaker of Bristol, offering his services.
[no title]
D/COL/C24 1827
Contents:
From Mr. Bassett, with copies of T.C. Colfox's replies: all concern stock.
[no title]
D/COL/C25 1828
Contents:
From R. Winter concerning dissenting celebrations on repeal of the Test Acts; copy of letter from T.C. Colfox to R. Winter speaking of his religious convictions on occasion of repeal.
[no title]
D/COL/C26 1831
Contents:
From M. Stevens in Vandieman's Land: plea for liberty. Enclosed is copy of petition sent to Sir Robert Peel, Home Secretary, from his mother, Hannah Stevens, when her son was on the hulks for transportation over seven years before.
[no title]
D/COL/C27 ND
Contents:
From J. Brown, concerning a load of hay.
ELIZABETH LEE (Nee COLFOX) 1778-1859, and JOHN C. LEE, her husband [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/C28 1793 - 1844
Contents:
From her father in 1793 on the death of her mother; from their nephew John Lee Hills in Dublin to Mr. & Mrs. Lee, 1831, and one to John Lee from Henry Lee, 1844. Also letter from Simon Lee to William Head, 1809, sent on to T.C. Colfox who wrote his orders on it.
HARRIET COLFOX [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
Daughter of Thomas C. Colfox (1783-1851)
[no title]
D/COL/C29 1797 - 1826
Contents:
From T.C. Colfox, her father, mostly full of personal news though a few refer to his business, or to finance and politics.
[no title]
D/COL/C30 1807 - 1846
Contents:
From various relatives, all of family interest. 2 from her brother William Colfox, 1807 and 1814; one from her aunt Elizabeth Chirring, 1827; 14 from her nephew Thomas Colfox, 1833-1846; 2 from her nephew William Colfox, 1838 & 1843; one from Eliza Miller, sister-in-law of William Colfox, senior.
[no title]
D/COL/C31 1841 - 1848
Contents:
Letters from her friends: A. P. Cree, 1841; S. Baker, 1848, with interesting account of treatment for "inflammation of the bowels": leeching, bleeding, cupping and blistering. Also three undated letters from Clara Gundry, and one from E. Gunn, undated.
WILLIAM COLFOX (Senior) [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
Son of Thomas C. Colfox (1784 - 1853)
[no title]
D/COL/C32 1805 - 1848
Contents:
From Thomas C. Colfox, his father: family interest, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1819. Also letters from his wife Hannah Colfox (nee Abbott), 1845, his sons Thomas, 1846, and William, 1848 (incomplete): family news, with mention of wool sales and stock.
[no title]
D/COL/C33 1810 - 1838
Contents:
From Elizabeth Lee nee Colfox, his sister: domestic news, with interesting account of untrustworthy servants. Also several letters from his sister Harriet Colfox full of family news, with mention of Louis XVIII's London visit in 1814, and of the wool trade and financial problems, 1835. Anne Hounsell in 1818 writes on the desirability of his getting married and there are several copies of letters sent to the various schools his sons attended: to Dr. Davis and the Rev. R.M. Montgomery of Taunton, and letters received from the Rev. J. Fullager at Chichester and from Montgomery.
[no title]
D/COL/C34 1825 - 1853
Contents:
Copy letters sent by William Colfox: some written for his father before his death in 1835. Include letters concerning wool business, house in Fleet St., religious toleration, and much on the schooling of the boys. Letters are addressed to Davenport, Atwood Smith, Thomas Norris, Thomas Fisher, Peter Miller, Rev. R.M. Montgomery, David Moir, Dickson and Laings, J.R. Wreford, C. Fauntleroy, Herbert Williams, Henry Hoare, J. & R. Archibald and others.
[no title]
D/COL/C35 1832
Contents:
From Lord Henley: a circular soliciting his vote when standing as an Independent for Middlesex. There are two copies of W. Colfox's reply, accusing him of corruption, and scorning his idea of reform.
[no title]
D/COL/C36 1835
Contents:
From the Rev. J. Teggin on the death of T.C. Colfox, W. Colfox's father.
[no title]
D/COL/C37 1845
Contents:
From J.J. Clemans concerning the lease of a house in Wilmot St., Bloomsbury, formerly Andrew Abbott's, and a copy of letter sent by W. Colfox to Mr. Phelps on the receipt of one of these letters.
HANNAH COLFOX [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
(Nee ABBOTT) (1788 - 1873): daughter of Andrew Abbott, married William Colfox in 1821.
[no title]
D/COL/C38 1817 - 1820
Contents:
Personal letter from Mrs. Phelps; personal letter from her brother-in-law Michael Miller, containing also financial matters; letter from Messrs. Amory and Coles concerning legacy for her sister Eliza Miller, 1820, and wrapper of letter addressed to Hannah Abbott.
[no title]
D/COL/C39 1818 - 1833
Contents:
From American relatives. Her uncle John Abbott writes from Philadelphia: family interest; letter of 1819 written on death of her father Andrew Abbott gives account of his early years.
In 1832 her cousin William Master writes on death of her uncle John Abbott. Copy letter written to William Abbott, her cousin, on intestacy of John Abbott, 1833.
[no title]
D/COL/C40 1832 - 1855
Contents:
From her son Thomas Colfox (1823-1886); the early ones come from the schools which he attended and show the interest he and his brother took in their "museum" of natural history; mention of Arthur Wansey, brother of his future wife, in his account of the boys at the Bristol school. By 1841, he was at London University, and letters tell of the 1841 fire at the Tower of London, his exasperation at the expense of the christening of Queen Victoria's child in 1842, and personal details of his life there. In 1845 he toured the north and Scotland, and in 1847 writes from Belgium and Paris. His impressions of the Great Exhibition of 1851 and finally the letters he wrote on his Lake District honeymoon in 1855. Also copy letter to Mrs. Fullager at the Chichester school in 1835, mostly concerning Tom.
[no title]
D/COL/C41 1837 - 1854
Contents:
From her son William Colfox (1826-1906): life at school and afterwards at London University, his trip to Paris in 1847, and Germany in 1852; his visit to the Wanseys in 1854. Also letter of Christmas good wishes sent by Anna E. Wansey in 1854. (She was to marry William in May, 1855). 2 letters from her sister-in-law Harriet Colfox in 1836 give details of family concern, also a discussion on finance and contemporary political questions: what effect will the Spanish marriage problem and Grecian politics have on bond holders?
THOMAS COLFOX [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
(1823 - 1886), son of William and Hannah Colfox, who in 1855 married Louisa Wansey.
[no title]
D/COL/C42 1823 - 1835
Contents:
Welcome and advice on his birth by unknown 'independent gentlewoman'; doggerel verse from relative, Anne Hounsell, to commemorate Catholic Emancipation, with invitation enclosed. Poem written for the 12th birthday of Thomas, 5 May 1835, by Charles Crocker, the Sussex poet (born 1797; shoemaker and verger).
[no title]
D/COL/C43 1830 - 1838
Contents:
Letter from Thomas Colfox to his great uncle (John?) in America (copy in his parents' handwriting) 1830; letter to a Miss Rook, written whilst at school in Bristol, with note from his brother, William.
[no title]
D/COL/C44 1835 - 1856
Contents:
From his mother Hannah Colfox, whilst he was at school and university and on his marriage; from his aunts Elizabeth Lee and Harriet Colfox, and in 1856 from his sister-in-law Anna Colfox with news of his baby daughter Harriet.
[no title]
D/COL/C45 1837 - 1857
Contents:
From his brother William Colfox: much of mutual interest to the boys; a precis of a speech of O'Connell at the anti-Corn Law League meeting at Covent Garden, 1844; roof repairs at the Unitarian Chapel, Bridport; references to wool trade and news of Harriet, Thomas' daughter, and Alice, William's daughter.
[no title]
D/COL/C46 1860 - 1873
Contents:
Personal letter from William Barnes of Dorchester, (the poet); from J. Hodson in 1866 concerning Colfox entries in the Bridport registers; one from G. Hills in 1871 concerns MSS. for the British Archaeological Association's Congress at Weymouth 1871; notification to Thomas Colfox of his appointment as J.P. for Dorset.
TO WILLIAM COLFOX (junior) [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
Sons of William and Hannah Colfox.
[no title]
D/COL/C47 1842 - 1857
Contents:
From his brother Thomas: mostly of personal interest though some mention of wool business. One in 1842 shows fine engraving of University College, London. From Thomas with his wife Louisa in 1857, mentioning a telegraphic message. 2 from Hannah Colfox of family interest.
[no title]
D/COL/C48 1875
Contents:
Catalogue with plan for sale by auction of freehold estate of Wooth Grange at Netherbury, 3 miles from Bridport; with letter in William Colfox's handwriting concerning property, another from Norris Roper giving its rateable value, assessment for land-tax etc.; press cutting from the 'Times' advertising the sale; rough notes concerning administration of Wooth Grange and arithmetical jottings.
THOMAS and WILLIAM COLFOX [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
Sons of William and Hannah Colfox
[no title]
D/COL/C49 1838 - 1856
Contents:
From their father William, containing interesting information about fares from Bristol to Taunton etc. There are several from their school friend Edgar Hawkes (one for Tom alone in 1844) who shared their interest in natural history specimens.
Their aunt Elizabeth Lee writes in 1840 to tell them of a whale washed up on the Charmouth coast, and in 1856 she hopes for their support concerning her proposition for an industrial school in Bridport. Anne Billett, nurse to the boys when young, sends them family news, and received a reply from Bristol.
ANNA COLFOX, nee WANSEY [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
Wife of WILLIAM COLFOX (junior)
[no title]
D/COL/C50 1855, (?) 1892
Contents:
From her mother Elizabeth Wansey.
Letter from "W.C." to "Mamma". This mentions Alf and Alice and perhaps comes from Margaret Wansey Colfox, Anna's younger daughter (?).
LOUISA COLFOX, nee WANSEY [no ref. or date]
Administrative history:
Wife of THOMAS COLFOX (junior)
[no title]
D/COL/C51 1855 - 1872
Contents:
From Mary Carpenter and Harriet Martineau: 3 personal letters. Also letter from Harriet Martineau to Kate Morgan nee Martineau, her cousin, and previously the wife of Edward Wansey, brother of Louisa Colfox.
ALICE LEE COLFOX [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/C52 1919
Contents:
From H.S. Suttill of Pymore Mill near Bridport concerning the spinning of cotton & flax by machine in Bridport.
Enclosed is a typewritten extract from 'The Linen Trade Ancient & Modern' (published 1864).
ANDREW ABBOTT [no ref.]
(1743 - 1819)Administrative history:
Father of HANNAH ABBOTT, who married WILLIAM COLFOX
[no title]
D/COL/C53 1805 - c.1812
Contents:
From Thomas C. Colfox: personal correspondence, includes copy of William Carter's will of which T.C. Colfox was sole executor and beneficiary. (See A. Abbott's letters to T.C. Colfox, D/COL/C1).
[no title]
D/COL/C54 1811 - 1819
Contents:
From W.L. Rogers, William Abbott (nephew), Fisher & Beddomes, Copland and Phelps (2). Draft letters to Messrs. S. Anstice, Phelps and Denny. Last letter concerns post for his son John whose "intellects are not quite correct".
Letter from A. Sergeant concerning funeral arrangements for Mrs. Abbott. 2 copies of A. Abbott's signature.
[no title]
D/COL/C55 1812 - 1817
Contents:
From Joseph Master his cousin in Philadelphia: discussion and assessment of the American War (1812-14), and one letter written in 1816 after the death of Mrs. Abbott, includes his own reminiscences of England which he left at the age of 12 in 1750. From John C. Abbott, his brother in New Jersey: personal; later ones expressing grief at Andrew's blindness.
CARTER FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/C56 1784 - 1811
Contents:
To Betty Carter from Rev. G. Waters, before her marriage to Andrew Abbott, 1784. To Elizabeth or Betsey, wife of Joshua Carter, from Anne Bellamy, M. Player and her aunt J. Barrett, 1798-1807. To Mrs. Carter from B. Daniels aboard the "Owen Glendon" (? Glendower), 1811.
MILLER FAMILY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/C57 1814, 1829
Contents:
To Michael Miller, brother-in-law of Hannah Colfox nee Abbott, from Hannah Abbott: personal, 1814. To Eliza Miller, his wife, from her nephew Thomas Colfox: his earliest extant letter, showing scepticism about digging up a sister in the parsley bed, 1829.
ELLEN AND MARGARET WANSEY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/C58 1830 - 1831
Contents:
From Harriet Martineau. She stayed with the girls' uncle John Wansey at Walthamstow and their aunt, Mary Ann Wansey wrote to them on the same sheet.
ELLEN WANSEY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/C59 1874 - 1877
Contents:
From Sair Nada Buneyez with whom Mary Carpenter worked in India. Tells how he was criticised by Hindu friends for 'crossing the ocean' which is at variance with Hindu practice. He has opened a Girls' School and two more Evening Schools recently, and helped by Miss Carpenter is now building a hall, 1874; 2 from Mary Carpenter: personal.
Y. MELMOTH [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/C60 1859
Contents:
To T. Ffooks advising him of meeting of Trustees of the Sherborne Division of Turnpike Trusts, 1859.
REV. R. GIBSON [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/C61 1864
Contents:
From Russell' and Carpenter of Halifax: private matters.
LEGAL
D/COL/L [n.d.]
[no title]
D/COL/L1 1799 - 1814
Contents:
Warrant for Attorney (Hill, Carter); proceedings in Chancery: answer of defendant Joshua Carter to plaintiff E. Webb.
[no title]
D/COL/L2 1813 - 1824
Contents:
Smithers v. Falkland, Abbott, Anstice & Moore: papers concerning prize money paid as security for an annuity by Lord Falkland (deceased) to the defendants although he had made an agreement to share the money with Lieut. Thomas Smithers; with 2 letters to Andrew Abbott from Anstice and Robinson and Hill, 1813, 1818, and agreement concerning expenses in pressing claim, 1824.
BUSINESS
D/COL/B [n.d.]
COLFOX FAMILY (Chandlers, woolstaplers etc. [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/B1 1774 - 1778
Contents:
Receipts for money paid out by John Colfox, 1774, and Thomas C. Colfox, 1777-8.
[no title]
D/COL/B2 1776 - 1792
Contents:
Accounts of stock in trade belonging to Thomas C. Colfox, chandler and woolstapler, 1776-83, 1784-92.
[no title]
D/COL/B3 1782 - 1784
Contents:
Pages from account book. Ownership not certain but articles recorded include candles, sugar, salt, tobacco - probably concerns chandler's and grocery business inherited by Thomas C. Colfox on death of his father, John, in 1777.
[no title]
D/COL/B4 1792 - 1816
Contents:
Stock book. Contains wool stock, Bank of England stock, money due on mortgages, earnings from shares in ships etc.
[no title]
D/COL/B5 1793 - 1828
Contents:
Promissory note, G. Hallett to T.C. Colfox, and memorandum of T.C. Colfox on subject; mortgage of furniture, G. Hallett to T.C. Colfox. Bond to secure £100, Galpin, Gundry, Bools, T.C. Colfox; apprenticeship indenture binding R. Best as a wool sorter to T. & W. Colfox for seven years; bond: Hansford, T.C. & W. Colfox.
[no title]
D/COL/B6 1798, 1839
Contents:
Memoranda of Bank Stock. Latter belonging to Thomas and William Colfox, junior.
[no title]
D/COL/B7 1805 - 1826
Contents:
Letters from T.C. Colfox to his son William Colfox, senior, concerning wool business, a few undated. Some contain stock or family news, a few have notes from other members of the family. One of 1806 describes his refusal to bribe electors; modern extract from letter of 1815 describes effects on the wool trade if there is again European War; in 1817 speaks of arrangements for apprenticeship of John Coppock. Also financial letters from T.C. Colfox to William Colfox with occasional mention of politics and family news; problem of whether Hills (whose correspondence q.v.) is trustworthy.
[no title]
D/COL/B8 1812
Contents:
Letter to T.C. Colfox from T. Curtis concerns wool trade, and, incidentally, politics.
[no title]
D/COL/B9 1812 - 1834
Contents:
Copies of letters sent by Thomas Colfox and Son. Mostly deal with wool business, few refer to finance, personal and testamentary matters.
[no title]
D/COL/B10 1813 - 1825
Contents:
Bills for wools bought of James Jacob and Henry Hawker for T.C. Colfox; another for T.C. Colfox & Son from blacksmith.
[no title]
D/COL/B11 1814
Contents:
Circular from John Playter, General Commissioner to the Hague, soliciting imports, addressed to John Colfox.
[no title]
D/COL/B12 1816 - 1823
Contents:
Cash book of Thomas C. Colfox.
[no title]
D/COL/B13 1819
Contents:
Receipt from Downe's Wharf for a sack (of wool) from T. Colfox to be sent to London.
[no title]
D/COL/B14 1835
Contents:
Letter to W. Colfox from J. Treasure & Son - concerns the cloth business: will Colfox sell for them?
[no title]
D/COL/B15 1840
Contents:
Jottings concerning wool sales and stock in hand written on dorse of printed copy of hymns and anthems sung at Bridport Church.
[no title]
D/COL/B16 1810 - 1827
Contents:
Bridport Vessels: insurance policy for wool shipped (Bridport-London) in the 'Nepean' for T. Colfox and Son; accounts of the smack 'The Happy Return' (Captain: W. Kerridge); bill and receipt for the smack 'Hero' of Lyme Regis; bills owed for 'Hero' when it was sold at Lyme. Transfer of 8/64ths of "Hero" (Lee to Colfox). Insurance of "Speedwell"
[no title]
D/COL/B17 1814 - 1847
Contents:
Deeds concerning shares in Bridport vessels. Bargain and sale of 1/8 share in the 'Bee' (Hunt, Watson, Tucker, Good & T.C. Colfox); notice of sale by auction of two messuages at Lyme Regis and shares of vessels late the property of Simon Lee, with jottings (of W. Colfox?); sale of shares in 'Nepean', 'Bee', 'Fly', 'Alert', 'Happy Return' (J.C. Lee, Colfox); sale of 4/64 share in the 'London' (Prickman, W. Colfox); grant of 2/64 share in the 'Busy' (Swain, W. Colfox) 2/64 share in "Lark" (Swain, W. Colfox) and of "Dorset"
[no title]
D/COL/B18 1816
Contents:
Letter to T.C. Colfox from J.G. Downe concerning Ramsgate Harbour Bill and exemption of Bridport vessels.
[no title]
D/COL/B19 1822 - 1834
Contents:
Bank Book of Bridport Savings Bank belonging to John Tucker, wool sorter of Bridport. With rules, orders and regulations at front.
[no title]
D/COL/B20 1853, ND
Contents:
Poster of Ilminster Annual Wool Fair; list of fairs and markets in the five Western Counties, undated.
ANDREW ABBOTT AND PARTNERS. (Potters) [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/B21 1789 - 1794
Contents:
Joint accounts of the Abbott, Turner and Newbury partnership, including acknowledgement by William and John Turner of debt to firm.
[no title]
D/COL/B22 1786 - 1789
Contents:
Bonds of Abbott, Turner and Newbury with officers of the 'Princess Royal' and the 'Triton' (owned by the East India Company) and the 'Earl of Oxford'.
[no title]
D/COL/B23 1789 - 1809
Contents:
Ledger of Abbott and Newbury.
[no title]
D/COL/B24 1792 - 1817
Contents:
Assignment and release of a third share in the stock, property etc. of Company, Turners, Abbott and Newbury; deed of dissolution of co-partnership of Newbury and Abbott; money order of A. Abbott; award and umpirage to reserve rent of £320 for Fleet St. premises (Spiller, Abbott, Mist) and legal bill; schedule of business deeds and dates of expiry of leases (1792-1845), 1817. (Abbott, Mist, Spiller, Turner, Newbury).
[no title]
D/COL/B25 1795 - 1821
Contents:
Ledger of partnership of John Abbott and James Simpson of Philadelphia with different manufacturers; cash taken and goods sold and taken by A. Abbott out of late partnership account; sales; personal cash account.
[no title]
D/COL/B26 1801 - 1808
Contents:
Business accounts of Andrew Abbott: Bills Payable; Bills Receivable.
[no title]
D/COL/B27 1805 - 1808
Contents:
Accounts of Messrs. Robarts, Curtis and Co. Abbot and Mist, Turner and Co., Minton and Co. are mentioned inter alia. At back: reflections on reading "2 vols. of Dr. Magee's" theological work. (Found loose in account book of A. Abbott).
[no title]
D/COL/B28 1807, 1809
Contents:
Abstracts of accounts of Abbott and Mist.
[no title]
D/COL/B29 1811 - 1816
Contents:
Correspondence: Abbot, Mist, Shaw, Anstice, Wright and others, mainly concerned with dishonesty of James Mist and its results, including dissolution of Abbott-Mist partnership, with Mist's account sent to Anstice, and Anstice's letter, 1813
[no title]
D/COL/B30 1817 - 1819
Contents:
Correspondence concerning the Fleet St. premises of A. Abbott which caught fire; notice to A. Abbott concerning the Fleet St. fire from W.L. Newman, City Solicitor; accounts of A. Abbott for legal advice from C. Beazley - concerns Fleet St.
[no title]
D/COL/B31 ND
Contents:
Billhead bought of A. Abbott, potter to his royal highness the Prince of Wales; notice to the 'nobility and Publick in general' by Turner & Abbott of their wares for sale; copper plate of Abbott and Mist for billheads.
RELIGIOUS
D/COL/R [n.d.]
UNITARIANS [no ref. or date]
BRIDPORT [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/R1 ND
Contents:
Book containing plan of the Unitarian Chapel, Bridport, and long lecture on 'Mental Philosophy' written partially in the hand of William Colfox, senior.
[no title]
D/COL/R2 1790 - 1827
Contents:
Agreement over boundaries: concerns land for the erection of new Unitarian Chapel, East St., Bridport (Colfox and Hart), 1790; resolution to form a Chapel Fellowship Fund, 1818; undated silhouette of Rev. T. Howe (1788-1820); letter on his resignation of office at the Chapel (Colfox to Teggin).
[no title]
D/COL/R3 1820 - 1835
Contents:
Book of discourses aroused by the deaths of the Rev. Thomas Howe (1820), Rev. G. Barker Wawne (1827) and Thomas C. Colfox (1835), belonging to Harriet Colfox.
[no title]
D/COL/R4 1847 - 1854
Contents:
Subscription book of Unitarian Chapel, Bridport, partially entered in hand of William Colfox, junior.
[no title]
D/COL/R5 1835, ND
Contents:
Printed pamphlet "Unitarians' appeal to a Candid Public" - summary of their religious beliefs, undated (before 1820?); Rules of the Bridport Unitarian Sunday School, 1835; leaflet: 'Duties towards a Minister', undated.
[no title]
D/COL/R6 1838 - 1928
Contents:
Pamphlets and Sermons by various ministers of Bridport Unitarian Chapel - Philip Harwood (1838), J. Lettis Short (1856), H.S. Solly (1901), (on the death of Queen Victoria); printed pamphlet by T.A. Colfox on the 'History of Bridport Unitarian Chapel' for its centenary celebrations in 1894; monthly Calendar of Bridport Unitarian Chapel, Jan. 1908 and Nov. 1909; order of Civic Service at Bridport Unitarian Chapel, 1928.
[no title]
D/COL/R7 1922
Contents:
Press cuttings from 'The Inquirer': address to the Bridport Chapter of the Layman's League on 'Religion and Citizenship' by Major W.P. Colfox & profile of W.P. Colfox.
DORCHESTER [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/R8 1756 - 1830
Contents:
Accounts of the Dissenting Church, Dorchester. Contains accounts of yearly subscriptions, collections, repairs, resolutions of meetings and copy letters to the Minister.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND [no ref. or date]
BRIDPORT [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/R9 1814 - 1867
Contents:
Printed summary of Bridport Churchwardens' Accounts, 1814-15; printed pamphlet by William Brookland, Vicar of Netherbury, in answer to charges against clergy in the neighbourhood of Bridport by Henry Warburton M.P., 1835; St. Bartholomew's Bi-Centenary Sermon by Rev. M.L. Lee, M.A. (rector of Bridport), 1862; correspondence between Bridport Churchwardens and the Charity Commissioners, 1867; parish magazine of Bridport cum St. Andrews, undated.
Hymns sung on occasion of Provincial Grand Lodge of Mason at Weymouth, 1818
LITTON CHENEY [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/R10 1856
Contents:
Printed sermon by Joseph Maskell preached before Litton Cheney Friendly Society in Litton Cheney Church.
POLITICAL and OFFICIAL
D/COL/X [n.d.]
POLITICAL [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/X1 1796 - 1806
Contents:
Bridport election poll books, 1796 (Candidates Charles Sturt, George Barclay, Thomas Burgess) with case & legal opinions on disputed election and notes of expenses, and 1806 (Candidates George Barclay, Sir Evan Nepean, Philip Francis)
[no title]
D/COL/X2 1811 - 1832
Contents:
Papers concerning the 1832 Reform Bill and previous agitations for Parliamentary reform: a circular from the 'Friends of Parliamentary Reform', attacks on the National Debt and the rotten borough of Bridport; reformers' songs and poems, and speeches and festivities after passing of Bill. Also a poll of County Electors for May 1831, and a revised list of Bridport borough electors for October 1832.
[no title]
D/COL/X3 1819, 1852
Contents:
Printed papers concerning the Army: pamphlet about foreign enlistment; appeal for the reduction of military establishments, and an undated circular 'A Few Hints about the Army'.
[no title]
D/COL/X4 1820 - 1834
Contents:
Notice of election campaign of Christopher Spurrier, Esq.; extract of results of election from poll book at Bridport; notice of election candidates (Bankes and Portman) to the Freeholders of Dorset; address on the Colonial Question printed from 'The Christian Advocate'; Joseph Hume's address to the Electors of Middlesex.
[no title]
D/COL/X5 1834 - 1836
Contents:
Papers concerning the Bridport Parliamentary election of 1834-5, including printed addresses by the candidates, posters, ballad etc. Also handbills concerning the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835; a broadside "Is this cheap Government?" - condemnation of the cost of the Royal Family. Report of the trial of Edwin Nicholetts for corruption with regard to the election of Councillors.
[no title]
D/COL/X6 1837
Contents:
Declaration to the inhabitants of Bridport by George Stevens concerning a money draft alleged by Mr. Templer to have been sent for fraudulent election purposes.
[no title]
D/COL/X7 1840 - 1842
Contents:
Papers concerning Bridport Parliamentary election of 1841, including handbills and posters, ballad for the victor T.A. Mitchell, Esq., and satirical comment from 'The Western Times' in 1842; book containing an Election Agent's record of the canvassing of votes for an election including details of bribes (undated, but thought to relate to 1841 Election).
[no title]
D/COL/X8 1842 - 1843
Contents:
Paper concerning Anti-Corn Law agitation; undated broadside of Birmingham Union; an anti-Corn Law circular of 1842; handbill addressed to T.A. Mitchell; an election ballad "cheap bread & free trade".
[no title]
D/COL/X9 1844 - 1857
Contents:
Miscellaneous papers including a poll for Bridport borough in 1847; Mr. Sturt's programme (1852); an appeal against corruption; advertisement of people's reform association, and a poster in dialect: "£7000 Reweard in Ralewy Scrippe" (1857).
[no title]
D/COL/X10 1868 - 1869
Contents:
Expenses of 1868 Parliamentary Election (Thomas Colfox, junior, Mayor 1869).
[no title]
D/COL/X11 1875
Contents:
Papers concerning Bridport by-election of 1875 - including posters, addresses from the candidates, a press cutting of the Liberal victory and a modern typescript account of the occasion by an eyewitness, T.A. Colfox.
[no title]
D/COL/X12 1880 - 1887
Contents:
Papers concerning Bridport Parliamentary election of 1880: election squib and doggerel verse; letter from Alice Colfox to her brother T.A. Colfox (with 2 extracts). Declaration by T.A. Colfox concerning his abstention in General Election, 1886. Letter to him from Mr. Tucker in reply to letter of T.A. Colfox stating his determination to stand as an Independent.
[no title]
D/COL/X13 1895 - 1907
Contents:
Bridport Parliamentary elections: poster of Colonel Williams, Unionist Candidate, mention of W. and T.A. Colfox on Committee of Dorset Liberal Unionist Association; undated poster from Colonel Williams to agriculturists - probably of same time (1895); 1900 Election: Elliott Lees' handbill for Birkenhead, and a letter from him to T.A. Colfox (1907); 1906 Election: handbills of candidates; notices of Unionist success; election songs etc. Undated poster advertising W. Bridport Conservative and Unionist Great Fete (c.1900?).
OFFICIAL [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/X14 1740 - 1850
Contents:
Bridport Harbour papers: engineer's agreement, 1740; accounts; Harbour Improvement Act, 1823; agreement of 1825 on proposed canal to be cut from the Harbour; letter concerning Bristol and English Channels Connection Railway; description of launching of 'Alfred the Great', 1850.
[no title]
D/COL/X15 1760 - 1840
Contents:
Official celebrations for the coronation of George III and Queen Charlotte, c.1761; for the peace of 1814; address of loyalty from the inhabitants of Bridport to Queen Charlotte, 1820 or 1821, and her gracious reply; W. Colfox's instructions and a list of those attending a celebration (1832?); celebrations for the marriage of Queen Victoria, 1840.
[no title]
D/COL/X16 1811, 1870
Contents:
Petition of prisoners of War at Cambrai to Churchwardens of Bridport, (1811); extract from 'Bridport News' of letter of T. Colfox, Mayor of Bridport, describing the proceedings at Brussels where he represented the Corporation; undated address to people of Besancon from inhabitants of Bridport written in hand of T. Colfox, junior.
[no title]
D/COL/X17 1812 - 1854
Contents:
Papers concerning Bridport turnpike roads, including Act of 9 Geo. IV for making road from Allington to Clapton Bridge etc.
[no title]
D/COL/X18 1834
Contents:
Order of J.P.'s (W. Colfox and J. Gundry) concerning ale house hours.
PRINTED PAMPHLETS
D/COL/Q [n.d.]
BRIDPORT [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/Q1 1784
Contents:
Printed copy of Act of 25 George III Chapter 91 for demolition and building schemes in Bridport and the improvement of "paving, cleansing, lighting and watching the said borough".
[no title]
D/COL/Q2 1815
Contents:
Several select poems by T. Shoell, printed at Bridport.
[no title]
D/COL/Q3 1831
Contents:
Introductory lecture of the Bridport Association for Mutual Instruction by Robert Cree. (3 duplicates).
[no title]
D/COL/Q4 1834
Contents:
Playbills advertising entertainment by Masters G.B. and W.R. Grossmith.
[no title]
D/COL/Q5 1849 - 1869
Contents:
Press cutting recalling results of 1626 plague in Bridport, undated; lecture by Rev. J. L. Short on insanitary conditions in Bridport, 1849; advertisement of a new weekly paper 'The Antidote' to inquire into conditions of Bridport's decline, 1853; doggerel verse on Bridport's unclean wells, 1869; pamphlet 'The Cholera', undated; Dr. Buchanan's "Report on the Sanitary State of Bridport", undated (c.1870).
[no title]
D/COL/Q6 ND
Contents:
Advertisement of A. Patten of Dolphin Inn, Bridport, for clipping and singeing horses. Endorsed with comment about Garibaldi's baptism of a child on Verona Station. (?c. 1860).
[no title]
D/COL/Q7 1860 - 1909
Contents:
Schools: undated address to inhabitants of Bridport on the desirability of establishing an infant school, possibly by E. Lee; press cutting extracted from the 'Friend of the People' concerning the Industrial Branch of Girls' and Infants' General Schools at Bridport established from an endowment by the late Elizabeth Lee, 1860; programme on the opening of Bridport Secondary School by the Earl of Shaftesbury, 1909; press cutting from 'The Bridport News' on the opening of Bridport Secondary School on site in St. Andrews Rd. offered by Colonel and Mrs. T.A. Colfox, 1909.
[no title]
D/COL/Q8 1863
Contents:
Programme of Pymore Archery Club's Field Day.
[no title]
D/COL/Q9 1869 - 1907
Contents:
Alice Colfox's copy of 'History & Topography of Bridport, Dorset' - a lecture by Joseph Maskell; pamphlet by W. Colfox, B.A. 'On the History of Bridport' from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Antiquarian Field Club vol. XI; pamphlet on the 'Bridport Corporation Records' by T. Wainwright, printed with another by H.S. Solly M.A. on "The Geology of Bridport"; extract from 'The Builder' concerning Bridport and its environs; redemption of fee farm rent on the Borough: press cutting of 1906 or 1907.
[no title]
D/COL/Q10 1944
Contents:
Programme for 'Beating the Bounds' Ceremony showing boundaries of Bridport Borough.
[no title]
D/COL/Q11 ND
Contents:
Doggerel verse called 'The Prophesies of Samuel Best, Bridport, Dorset; of good Times to come before his death'.
MISCELLANEOUS [no ref. or date]
[no title]
D/COL/Q12 1806
Contents:
Extract from 'The Star' about bravery of English sloop 'The Jane' (had Colfox connections) near Calais.
[no title]
D/COL/Q13 1811 - 1816
Contents:
Page from a book concerning the Comet of 1811; MS. copy of extract from Sherborne newspaper concerning the influence of the moon on the weather.
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