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Lease to Thomas Redford(1771 November 15)

  • MS 2000.95 (3X)
  • Microfilm: M-1561
  • 1 item

John Clayton (1694–1773) leases Thomas Redford, his estate manager, a part of “Morehouse” at Hawkhurst, Kent, [England] for the term of twenty-one years. Witnessed by Natha[nie]l and Ann Huggins.

See Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, John Clayton: Pioneer of American Botany (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1963), pp. 158–159.