Research Notes:

In Oct 1708 Samuel Bosawsack was a witness to the lease of Hicks tenement in Penryn by Alexander Pendarves, esquire, of Roscrow, to James Miitchells, tinner, of Penryn. ⁴

------------------------

Mortgage for £50 (lease and release), dated 1/2 Mar 1718. ⁵

Wm. Cock of Penryn, gent., to Sam. Bosawsack of Penryn, cutler.
Dwelling-house, gdn., backside and orchard in High Street, where Jane Bosowsack, Sam.'s mother, lives, bounded on e. with Pendarves lands, on w. with Hoblyn lands, on n. with street.

------------------------

Abstract of the Will of Samuel Bosawsack of Penryn, cutler, written 21 Mar 1745 ⁶

£10 to Mrs Elizabeth Salmon 'who now lives with me'.

Rest of goods to John Hearle, esquire, and Benjamin Pender of Penryn, esquire, in trust to be sold to pay debts; any surplus to go to testator's wife Mary, formerly wife of George Treluddra; if she remarry, her daughter Jane Bosowack to inherit; schedule to be made by trustees of household goods for Mary's use.

Dwelling-house, outhouses, shops, garden and backside in Penryn to trustees to use of Mary for her life, then daughter Jane.

------------------------

Assignment of mortgage, house, High Street, Penryn, dated 13 Jul 1753. ⁷

1) Mary Scantlebury of Falmouth, widow, and Samuel Bosawsack of Penryn, cutler, to
2) Abigail Jeffery of Mabe, widow.

Consideration: £53.

Dwelling-house, garden, backside and orchard in High Street, where Jane Bosowsack, Samuel's mother, lives*, bounded on east with Pendarves lands, on west with Hoblyn lands, on north with street.

* The wording in this description is identical to that of the 1718 mortgage (see above). Samuel's mother could not possibly have been alive at this time, having died in 1732.

------------------------

Lease, house and orchard, High Street, Penryn, dated 21 Dec 1763. ⁸

1) Mary Hearle, widow, Penryn and administratrix of John Hearle, esquire, deceased
2) William Rawling, joiner, Penryn.

Lease for lives of lessee and wife Dorcas by 1) to 2) of dwelling-house and garden, backside and orchard in High Street, Penryn, late occupation Samuel Bosawsack, deceased, bounded on the east with Alexander Pendarves' lands, on west with lands of Hoblyn, on north with street, on south with lands late Bloyes'.

Term: 99 years

Consideration: lessee to rebuild dwelling-house; £40.

Rent: £1. 1 shilling