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Richd. How (Aspley) to J. H. Hansen. Eldest son is at home : his disposition was...

Catalogue reference: HW/87/442

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This record is a file about the Richd. How (Aspley) to J. H. Hansen. Eldest son is at home : his disposition was... dating from 14 June 1791.

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Reference

HW/87/442

Date

14 June 1791

Description

Richd. How (Aspley) to J. H. Hansen. Eldest son is at home : his disposition was to study & retirement. The 2nd is gone by his own choice as doctor & surgeon in an East India ships he & another have the health of several hundred soldiers & sailors besides the passengers entrusted to their care. Youngest son inclines to follow the most ancient & useful of all professional agriculture. Maria lives with himself at Aspley. None are married. - Has visited old friend Dr. Douglas. now Bishop of Carlilse, who was tutor to Lord Pulteney at Leipzig, & now lives in Windsor Castle. - Nanny Ramsay married a farmer called Oliver, many miles away. who is now dead. - Eliz. Johnson, once a favourite of mine, married Thos. Wright, a watchmaker in London: their family - The Sawell family schoolmaster) - Thos. Walduck who attended them on journey in 1757, died of smallpox. How's daughter & youngest son were inoculated, & the other children caught the disease by infection & recovered . .... ?

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Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Language

English

Record URL
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HW/87

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Richd. How (Aspley) to J. H. Hansen. Eldest son is at home : his disposition was...