| Description | Her husband died at Grange Hill on 21 Feb; immediate demands on the estate amount to between £11-12,000, which should be met from this year's produce; Mark Hall, one of the surviving executors of Mathias Philp, has attempted to take possession of the Retrieve estate, but Laing thwarted him; all the Chancery suits must be begun again; attempts must be made to reach agreement with Mr. Fraunces over his land and negroes at Vere; Perrin has left £250 to his kinsman Charles Hodgson, overseer at Retrieve. |