Letters from Robert Swann, Sunderland

Reference No:: U DDCB/24/23
Dates:: Mar - Dec 1770
Description:: Relating to tenancies and non- payment of rents 'the times has been so baad with amany of them that it has been with som deficuoly they have got bread for there familys those of them that is in arrears will be able to pay up a little better now as the season of the year is now coming that worke will be alittle more plenty ... the houses in Sunderland is let much lower then they have been latly & amany good houses is without tennents of any kind ...' Repairs needed to houses. Lease of boat and lands (mentions the Greendragon Estate; Hillhouse Farm; glasshouse). Rental.
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Repository:: Hull University Archives
Collection:: Papers of the Burton Family (incorporating the Robinson Family of County Durham) of Cherry Burton