An 18th century accounts book, compiled by Lady Margaret Ing...

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An 18th century accounts book, compiled by Lady Margaret Ingham (née Hastings), including notes and the figures from 'money received by Lady Margaret Ingham as Executrix to Lady Elizabeth Haftings (sic)', further money 'Received of Lady Ann Haftings (sic) for Lady Margaret's Share of the Silver Tea Kettle Lamps & old Caftors (sic), & two Silver Dishes' in 1742, a further portion of the latter 'for Silver plate sold at London', the remainder of the partially filled book with accounts of money given away in acts of charity and Christian missionary zeal, in cases such as preachers and their passage to St. Thomas Island [St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands], Greenland, to go amongst the Indians in America, etc., most donations to the domestic poor of Yorkshire and London, vellum covers, the accounts terminating in 1771, 41cm x 17cm, Lady Margaret Ingham (1699 - 1768), daughter of Theophilus and Mary Hastings, 7th Earl and Countess of Huntingdon, married the evangelical Revd. Benjamin Ingham of Ossett and later Aberford, Yorkshire, founder of the Inghamites, in 1741. Lady Margaret acted as executrix to her step-sister Lady Elizabeth, on the latter's death from breast cancer in 1739.