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Short Title: Short v Jones. Plaintiff(s): John Short, Samuel Short, Augustin Question...
Catalogue reference: E 134/30Geo3/East10
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This record is about the Short Title: Short v Jones. Plaintiff(s): John Short, Samuel Short, Augustin Question... dating from 1790 Apr 21-1790 May 17 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/30Geo3/East10
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1790 Apr 21-1790 May 17
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: Short v Jones.
Plaintiff(s): John Short, Samuel Short, Augustin Question Short.
Defendant(s): Silvanus Jones and his wife Elizabeth, Samuel Kingdom, Robert Quiricke Short, Charles Thomas Short, Elizabeth Short, Thomas Short, Sarah Blagdon Short.
Depositions for: Defendants.
Subject of Depositions: The value etc and disposition of the personal estate and effects of Alice Siderfin which came to the hands of her executor John Short, surgeon (late husband of the defendant Elizabeth) and the value and disposition of the personal estate of the said John Short; said estates including lands etc in the parishes of Oare, Minehead, Selworthy, Dunster, Carhampton, Withycombe and St Dorumans (Decombs or Decumans ?) [Watchet], Crowcombe, and Stogumber [all Somerset], etc); the names and possessions of Robert Siderfin and Walter Siderfin, are mentioned.
County: London; Somerset.
Taken at: Court of Exchequer.
Date of Commission: 14 April 1790.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (8 May 1790), the examination of Samuel Kingdom of Milverton (Somerset), gent (one of the defendants) taken before Francis Ingram, deputy remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer (pursuant to a decree of said Court made 22 June 1787).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Litigation
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E 134
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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