Re: James Bollen, Sec. of NJ in 1670s, father of Anna (Bollen) Stout (Mrs. Jonathan)
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In reply to:
James Bollen, Sec. of NJ in 1670s, father of Anna (Bollen) Stout (Mrs. Jonathan)
Duane Boggs 1/11/14
Following the Restoration, I believe James Bollen received certain lands in Sussex (south of London), which he probably held as "investment" property, leased to tenants to generate income. See below.
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Calendar of treasury books, 1660/67-: preserved in the Public ..., Volume 1 By Great Britain. Public Record Office, at p. 116
1660-61, Jan 19. Report from the Surveyor General of Lands on the petition of Thomas Chiffinch, James Bollen and Christopher Bodley for the arrears of rents of certain concealed lands in the manors of Aldingbourn (“Oldbury”) and Seabeach and other places, detailed, in co. Sussex. The Attorney General to prepare a grant of said arrears if they are not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion. [Early Entry Book II, p. 159]
'Minute Book: September 1660', Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1: 1660-1667 (1904), pp. 19-28. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=80002http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=80002 Date accessed: 22 June 2013.
1660, Sept. 25.Petition from James Bollen for a lease of certain lands called Mote lands, in Iden and Beckley and Peasmarch, and of four messuages called the Chantry Lands. Referred: ut supra. [Ibid. pp. 152–3.]
Same from Christopher Bodley for same of certain discovered lands, viz., 25 acres of marsh land called Priest's Marsh and 2 acres called Netburne, in the parish of Hooe, co. Sussex, and other lands in Burnham, Bexhill, &c., and Burnham Lortwood, late in the possession of David Hart and Richard Alcorne. Referred: ut supra. [Ibid. p. 153.]