Disposition of George Walker to Thomas Walker or Mrs Betty Cranford, 5 September 1755
A trust disposition was another form of testamentary deed used in Scotland. It allowed an individual to make arrangements for the transfer of landed property to their chosen heirs. In Walker's disposition he transfers his property to his brother Thomas, then to Betty Cranford, the wife of the Reverend Gershom Stuart. It includes a reference to ‘what money shal be recovered of the sums due me by the manadgers of the Royal family private ships of war’.
Record details
| Item reference: | WLK/2/2 |
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| Catalogue section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | 1 paper with 2 envelopes |
| Date made: | 1755-09-05 |
| Creator: | Walker, George |
| Credit: | On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from a private lender |
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- Copy of George Walker’s will, written in Lisbon on the 3rd January 1748 (Manuscript) (WLK/2/1)
- Disposition of George Walker to Thomas Walker or Mrs Betty Cranford, 5 September 1755 (Manuscript) (WLK/2/2)
- Letter from George Walker to an unnamed recipient, 16 September 1756 (Manuscript) (WLK/2/3)
- Letter from George Walker to the Reverend Gersham Stewart, 19 February 1761 (Manuscript) (WLK/2/4)
- Letter to John Stewart, 2 December 1808 (Manuscript) (WLK/2/5)
- 'Particulars concerning the Royal Family Privateers and the prizes taken to the amount of more than a million sterling which sailed from Bristol in March 1746’ (Manuscript) (WLK/2/6)
- Extracts from the ‘Bristol Journal’ and ‘Bristol Advertiser’ concerning the capture of the French LEWIS ERASMUS and the MARQUIS DE AUTIN by the British privateers DUKE and PRINCE FREDERICK, and their arrival into Bristol (Manuscript) (WLK/2/7)
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