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Unknown Settlement of will of John Margenum

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03902.320 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 10 September 1778 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 21.8 x 34 cm. Order a Copy

Payment of £ 250, half of the sum bequeathed, to his widow, Mary Askenhurst.

Watson, Brook, 1735-1807
Mauger, Joshua, 1725-1788
Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771
Grenville, George, 1712-1770
Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of, 1718-1792
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778

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