GREENWOOD, Hunt (d. 1687), of Liskeard, Cornw.

Family and Education

b. c. 1620 ?, s. of --- Greenwood of Liskeard and Susan [Hunt?].Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornw. i. 48-9. m. 6 Oct. 1646, Joan (d. 4 Jan. 1702), da. of Anthony Manaton, rector of St Pinnock, Cornw. at least 1s., 1da.Cornw. RO, FP/189/1/1; FP/126/1/2; CN/839a/1. bur. 4 Aug. 1687 4 Aug. 1687.Cal. Wills Cornw. and Devon, ed. R.M. Glencross (British Rec. Soc., 1929), 122; Cornw. RO, FP/126/1/2.

Offices Held

Military: soldier, Plymouth garrison, 1642–?E113/5, unfol. Capt. militia ft. Cornw. 19 Mar. 1650–1660.CSP Dom. 1650, p. 505; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. PhD thesis, 1981), 511.

Civic: mayor, Liskeard 29 May – Oct. 1649, Oct. 1651 – Oct. 1652, Oct. 1655 – Oct. 1656, Oct. 1659-Oct. 1660;Cornw. RO, B/LIS/290, 293, 295, 296. steward, 1652–?1660.Cornw. RO, B/LIS/294.

Local: farmer, inland excise, Cornw. 25 Dec. 1653–25 Mar. 1654. Recvr. assessments, 25 Feb.-25 Apr. 1659.E113/5, unfol. Commr. militia, 26 July 1659;A. and O. sequestration bef. 23 Jan. 1660;CCC 775. assessment, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

GREENWOOD, Hunt (d. 1687), of Liskeard, Cornw.

: Cornw.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

GREENWOOD, Hunt (d. 1687), of Liskeard, Cornw.

Will

admon. 1688.Cal. Wills Cornw. and Devon, ed. Glencross, 122.

Estates

through his mo. acquired Cardoe Close, Casterills in Wendron, Melincross Mill and part of Engoyse in Wendron, all in the duchy of Cornwall manor of Helston in Kerrier, bef. 1649; also freeholder of Flower Croft in Longbinhay and other parcels of land in duchy manor of Liskeard, bef. 1649.Parl. Surv. Duchy Cornw. i. 48-9, 79. Farmer of sequestrated lands of Nevill Bleigh and Sir John Grenvile, Dec. 1649-Dec. 1650.E113/5, unfol. Jt.-purchaser of fee-farm rents of boroughs of Liskeard (19 Sept. 1650), Bodmin (28 Jan. 1651), Camelford, Helston, Grampound, Bossiney and East Looe, and of the manor of Tywardreth (4 Feb. 1651).E315/140, ff. 50v, 75, 76v.

Oxford 1644

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