DOCUMENTS RELATING TO CHELFHAM, KIPSCOMBE, HAXTON, SHERLDON, MIDDLE RIDGE, FRIENDSHIP

* note It is often difficult to disentangle different properties in the same area.
Thus "Chelfham" may mean the "Farm" (Hunt), or the "Barton" (Pine, Isaac, Turner).
Similarly there were several "Haxton" properties ** 
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1599  Haxton and Chelfham appear in sale of properties to Robert Chichester
1628  Barton justment, Chelfham
1666  Hugh Hunt purchases moiety of Shirrledon           Ref 1478M Bundle 12
1687  Lease of Chelfham and Towne Place to John Hunt     Ref 48/25/19/1
1707  Marriage Settlement  - The Barton                  Ref 56/11/5/2
1708  Marriage Settlement - Haxton to William Lavercombe  Ref 3667M/F5
1716  Sale of Middle Ridge & Shirldon to Humphrey Hunt
1765 - ?  Chelfham Barton occupied by John Pine
1772  Will of John Hunt of Haxton leaving Sherldon in fee tail
1780 -onwards   Land Tax assessments
1791/92  Sale of Chelfham  (Chelfham Barton)  (Exeter Flying Post 7 July 1791, 16 Feb 1792)
1828  'Common Recovery' of Chelfham & Kipscombe with purpose of breaking entailment Ref 1478M Bundle 13
1829  Will of John Hunt with re-entailment of Chelfham, Kipscombe.  (IR Wills)
1835  William Paramore Hunt seeks to break entail at Middle Ridge  (Whybrow)
1841  Census entries - Haxton (Sarah Hunt), Kipscombe (John Hunt),
          Chilpham Farm (Elizabeth Hunt), Chilfham Barton (John Isaac), Friendship (Wiliam Hunt)
1843  Tithe apportionments
1846  Mortgages raised on Chelfham by William and Edward Hunt  (Ref 1478M Bundle 13)
1850, 1859  Further mortgages
1851  White's Directory;  census
1865  Sale of Chelfham Barton    (Ref Exeter Flying Post Feb 8 1865)