Wm Houston, French, Read, & Maxwell, New Castle Delaware
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In reply to:
William Houston Home in New Castle Delaware (circa 1711)
Jim Houston 1/29/03
re: "...granted by Penn to William Houston, sold by Houston to Col. John French, bought at sheriff’s sale of French’s estate by John Van Gezel, sold by the latter to Jehu Curtis; by Curtis it was willed to his wife, Mary, who continued to own it as Mary Van Bebber after she married again; she left it to her daughter, Ann Curtis, who married Slator Clay. It later belonged to Joseph Tatlow, then to George Read who sold it to John Bond.”
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re: William Houston's will, Maxwell family.
Before 1780 "Tynhead Court" was owned by John Maxwell, whose widow, Ann, in 1787, sold a part of it to James Sykes, who soon afterwards moved to Dover. Part of the tract came to Major John Patten, son of Ann Maxwell, and to John Wethered, an heir of John Maxwell.
Robert Porter had several tracts of land in Dover Hundred, and among them "Porter’s Lodge," next west of "Aberdeen," and adjoining the south end of "Berry’s Range," and Tynhead Court on the northeast, 400 acres surveyed Nov 8 1680.
A portion passed to Robert French, (neighbor of Wm Houston) who sold 110 acres to the Society of the Church of England, and the first house of worship of the present Christ’s Church of Dover was erected on this glebe about 1708, and was used until the society built the present church in Dover about 1740.
Was money from Wm Houston's will used for above glebe ?
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Wm Houston, French, & Maxwell, New Castle Co, Delaware
Shirley Walsh 3/24/07