Mon 23 Nov 1801
Weekly pay of Martha Share continued.
139-140 willow trees on banks of canal bordering his land offered to Mr Harris of Stonehouse for £100.
Mary Hornage claimed shares nos.9,10, will of Alicia Rainsford.
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee room at Walbridge on Monday the 23^rd of November 1801
Present: Samuel Wathen, John Allaway, Rev^d W^m Ellis, Jos^h Grazebrooke, Rev^d Jos^h Colborne, Nath^l Jones, Nath^l Wathen, Ew^d Wood, Benj^n Grazebrooke, Jos^h Cambridge.
Read the Minutes of the last Meeting.
Continued the Order of the Weekly pay of Martha Share.
The Committee having taken into Consideration the proposals of M^r Harris of Stonehouse to purchase the Willow Trees growing on the Banks of the Canal bordering on his Land, Resolved that the whole of the Willow Trees growing both on the Ground nearest to that of M^r Harris, and on that in the next feild adjoining consisting of 139 or 140 Trees be offered to M^r Harris for the Sum of £100 to be paid previous to his cutting down any part of them on or before the 1^st of June next.
M^r Joseph Grazebrooke attended on behalf of Mary Hornage (Wife of M^r Henry Hornage of Belswardine in the County of Salop Esq^r) and made out her claim to a moiety of Two Shares in the Stroudwater Navigation N^o 9, 10 late the property of her Mother Alicia Rainsford late of Shrewsbury, deceased, by producing an extract from the Probate of the Will of the said Alicia Rainsford bearing date the 29^th October 1791 and duly proved in the Perogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury the 29^th of January 1801 whereby Letters of Administration were granted to the said Mary Hornage the Residuary Legatee named in the said Will (the Executors therein named having declined to Act) and her Claim is hereby admitted.
Adjourn'd this Meeting to Monday the 4^th of January next at the Committee room at Walbridge at 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon.
