04/05/2026

Promissory Note

Derrick Holmes has a footnote referring to this promissory note preserved at the Bristol Academy Library

March 25 1758

Twelve months after the date I promised to pay the Revd. Mr. Bernard Foskett or order the sum of one hundred and four pounds for value secured by me. Signed BB

Recd 11 July seventy five pounds in Lue of this note - B F

(Part of the principal money)

By September 1758 Foskett was dead.

Beddome was a beneficiary of Foskett's will.

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