Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1777. Dec. 21. Died, James Ogle of Rothbury.^
The diaries for 1778, 1779, 1780 and 1781 have been lost.
1782. Jan. 5. Died at Belford, Abraham Dixon, esq., aged 56.^
1782. Jan. 8. Died at Bavington, George Delaval, esq., aged 82.
1782. Jan. 17. Died of an apoplexy at Morpeth, Mr. John
French, attomey at law in Newcastle, and deputy-clerk of the peace
for Northumberland.^*^
1782. Jan. 18. The last letter (No. 6) of the Old Craftsman was
delivered in the town of Alnwick. ^^
1782. Jan. 21. William Davison of the Freeman-hilli2 settled hisi
affairs Avith the Chamberlains, and a lease for 14 years was granted
to Michael Swan and James Swan of FlotteiixDu of the said farm from
Whitsuntide next at 85^. rent.
Ogle was probably the person of that name who was baptized at
Rothbury, 7 June. 1709, as a son of Edward Ogle of that place and Sarah
Fenwick, his wife. This family claimed to be descended from the Ogles of
Eglingham.
* Abraham Dixon I. of Newcastle, master and mariner, married at All
Saints Chm-ch in that town, 26 Nov., 1657, Jane, daughter of Edward Carnaby.
He was probably father of Abraham Dixon 11. , also of Newcastle, master and
mariner, who married at St. Nicholas's, 17 Feb., 1684/5, Barbara Peareth, and
was buried in the old church of All Saints, November, 1700. His son Abraham
Dixon III., baptized at All Saints, 6 May, 1689, was a merchant in Newcastle,
and married at Gateshead, 25 Aug., 1720, Alice, daughter of John Ord of Newcastle,
attorney, by whom he had with other issue Abraham Dixon IV.,
baptized at St. John's, Newcastle, 10 March, 1723/4. Abraham Dixon III.,
Abraham Dixon IV.,
purchased Belford in 1726 and died at Bath, 3 Dec, 1746.
married, 21 Nov., 1779, Ann Wilkinson, but had no issue. By his will, made
two days before his death, he devised Belford to his grand-nephew Arthur
George Onslow, the great grandson of his brother Edward Dixon.
" George Delaval was the second son of Edward Shafto (second son of John
Shafto of Little Bavington) by his wife Mary, daughter of George Delaval of
Dissington. Born at Halton and baptized there, 28 Jan., 1702/3, he succeeded,
under the will of his maternal uncle. Admiral George Delaval (whose
name he assumed), to the Little Bavington estate which the latter had purchased
from the Crown, to which it had been forfeited by the attainder of William
Shafto in 1715. He represented the county as knight of the shire in the first
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and second parliaments of George III., and died 'respected in public and 'not
less esteemed in private life.' Cf. Newcastle Courant, 12 Jan., 1782.
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The NeuKafitle Courant of 19 Jan., 1782, states that 'his integrity in his
profession and his social good disposition gained him many friends.'
" A series of seven letters on a protracted conflict touching the constitution
of the corporation of Alnwick and the improvement of Alnwick moor, published
at this time, were written by Robert Richardson, attorney, clerk of the corporation,
under the name of 'An Old Craftsman.' The first, comprising 8 pages
8vo, dated Nov. 28, 1781, was printed at Alnwick by T. Alder. The second
letter, comprising 12 pages, is dated Dec. 6, 1781 ; the third, of 12 pages, is
dated Dec. 17, 1781 ; the fourth, of 15 pages, is dated Dec. 24, 1781 ; the fifth,
of 16 pages, is dated Jan. 4, 1782; the sixth, of 12 pages, is dated Jan. 18,
1782 ; and the seventh and last, of 12 pages, is dated Feb. 1, 1782. A set of
these letters is very rare. Cf. Tate, Alnwick, vol. ii. pp. 297-303.
' The farm of Freeman-hill belongs to the freemen of Alnwick.