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--- "Newcastle Courant" 6 May 1721, page 10:
From Mr. King's Letter, London, April 29.
This Day the C. ordered several Relations of the Post-Master Craggs, and other Persons to attend the House on Monday next, to be examined touching the report from the Secret Committee, relating to the Estate of Mr. Craggs.
--- "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (City of London, St Mary Woolnoth, 1686-1727, 56):
Burial Record reads: "March 1722. The twenty eigth day of this month was carried to Charleton in Kent, James Craggs, Esq."
--- "Ipswich Journal" Saturday, 18 Mar 1721, page 6:
The Corpse of Mr. Craggs is to be interr'd the latter end of this Week at Charlton in Kent; we are assur'd he has left a vast Estate among his three Daughters, Mrs Newsham, Mrs. Elliot, and Mrs. Trefusis.
--- "The European Magazine: and London Review", 1796, Volume 30, page 166:
"By letter from Lord Oxford, I find Post-Master Craggs was buried at Charlton, in Kent, where there is some estate in the family, with the following epitaph:
Here lies the Body of James Craggs, late of London, Esq.
One of his Majesty's Post Masters General.
He was the son of Mr. Anthony Craggs, of Holbech, in the Parish of Wlakingham, in the County Palatine of Durham, Gent.
And died the sixteenth of March, 1721.
He had issue one son and three daughters, viz.
The Right Honourable James Craggs, Esq.
One of the Principal Secretaries of State to his present Majesty,
Who died one month before his said Father;
And three daughters who survived him:
Anne, who married John Newtham, of Chadshunt,
In the County of Warwick, Esq.
Elizabeth, who married Edward Eliot, of Port Eliot,
in the County of Cornwall, Esq. and
Margaret, who married Samuel Trefusis; of Trefusis,
In the said County of Cornwall, Esq.,
Which three Daughters in duty erected this Monument.
To the pious memory of the best of Fathers."
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1657 - 1721 (~ 63 years)
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