File ECD3/3 - Tyddyn Glan y Ffynnon, Gwaun Dwysog etc, Henllan

The file comprises deeds for Tyddyn Glan y Ffynnon, Gwaun Dwysog and other properties in Tywysog and Ereifiad, purchased between 1748 and 1756 by John Griffith (2) of Garn from Henry Hughes the younger and the administrators of Catherine Raper, surviving heirs of Hugh Lloyd of Pwllheli, grocer. Hugh Lloyd had mortgaged the premises in 1722 and in his will, made the following year, he directed that payment of his debts should be met from the rents and profits of his lands. Attempts were made to pay his debts and legacies by means of assignments and further mortgages between 1729 and 1748, but eventually the decision was made to sell. The purchase was delayed by the death of Catherine Raper in 1751, by legal actions concerning debts on the estate and by a claim to title by a niece of Hugh Lloyd. Under John Griffith's will, proved 1759, Gwaun Dwysog and other purchased premises were devised to trustees to raise portions for his daughters and thereafter to his son to become part of the entailed estate. The final assignment involved in the conveyance did not take place until 1764, six years after his death. -- The bundle includes mortgages, probate records for Hugh Lloyd, 1723, Catherine Raper, 1751, 1754, and her daughter, Sarah Taylor, 1754, and deeds of sale to John Griffith, 1748/9, 1756.