Catalogue description DENT

Title deeds, plans and associated papers relating to estates of the Harsley family in parishes in the Isle of Axholme and other parts of north-western Lincolnshire. These estates were mortgaged to Jonathan Dent of Winterton (1744-1834), "the Lincolnshire miser".

Dent/I Title deeds

Dent/1/1. Belton in Axholme

Dent/1/1/1. Freehold deeds perhaps re Harsley estate 1656-1721

Dent/1/1/2. Copyhold deed perhaps re Harsley estate 1625-1729

Dent/1/1/3. Freehold property coming to the Harsleys 1675-1822

Dent/1/1/4. Copyhold coming to the Harsley estate 1603-1828

Dent/1/2. Crowle

Dent/1/2/1. Copyhold in 1718-1829

Dent/1/2/2. A cottage in 1777-1784

Dent/1/2/3. Misc. copyhold 1703-1765

Dent/1/3. Epworth, Tunnel Pit farm, 1703-1841

Dent/1/4. Kirton Lindsey 1694-1830

Dent/1/5. Hexey 1762-1805

Dent/1/6. Luddington 1690-1844

Dent/1/7. Scotter copyhold, 1720-1751

Dent/1/8. Amcotts, copyhold, 1715-1798

Dent/1/9. Various places, final concord, 1712

Dent/2. Abstracts, particulars and draft conveyances

Dent/2/1. Re land in Luddington and Belton mortgaged to Jonathan Dent by John Burtchby 1816-1844

Dent/2/2. Re land in Luddington mortgaged by Joseph Slingsby to Jonathan Dent, 1791-1844

Dent/2/3. Misc. estate papers, including circular re Hatfield Chase commission of sewers 1803

Dent/3. Plans

Dent/3/1. Epworth and Belton, 1841

Dent/3/2. Tunnel Pits, Epworth, 1814

Dent/3/3. Belton, 1827

Dent/3/4. Tracing of 3

Dent/4. Misc. personal probates etc.

Families: Burn, Collinson, Elwick, Hallifax, Harsley, Lister and Richardson

Dent/5. Misc. and unrelated papers

Harsley family of Belton, Lincolnshire

No restrictions on access.

Deposited by Major G Dent in 1964.

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