PETITIONS & NOTICES

1781	John Chittenden	Tooting Graveney	Petition
1764	Sarah Chittenden	Bermondsey	Notice & Removal Order
1764	Sarah Chittenden	Hampshire, Portsmouth	Notice & Removal Order
1764	Thomas Chittenden	Bermondsey	Removal Order
1764	Thomas Chittenden	Hampshire, Portsmouth	Removal Order

PLAXTOL, KENT

Eng.Ken.cem: 17.19

9.  The gift of Silas Chittenden to the poor of Plaxtol Borough is ten loaves of good wheate bread of the value of one shilling each to ten poor families on the first Sunday in November.   Twenty other such loaves to poor families of the said borough on the 5^th day of January following, and ten other  such loaves to the poor of the said borough on the first Sunday in March.   Also two Testaments of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ to two different families of the said borough every year, fore ever.  NB. The above gift is the interest of Twenty Pounds placed in the 3 per cent consols in the name of Rev’d Richard Knowles and Francis Martin

22.  Here lyeth ye body of Dorothy, wife of Silas Chittenden of this place.   She departed this life March ye 29^th 1746.Age 35.    Also here lyeth the bodys of 3 children who died infants.   To the Loving Memory of Ann, second wife of Silas Chittenden of this place.   She was the only child of Francis and Ann Baldwin, who departed this life 17^th Sep 1763,  Age 4?.

PLAXTOL

within living memory - a collection of memories by village people - Sir Richard Knowles

“The Chittenden Charity was known as the ‘Beer and Bibles Charity’ and was held to be for the distribution of beer and bibles, but it was really for ‘ten good wheaten loaves’.   When I asked about it in my more revolutionary days I was told by somebody ‘Keep your trap shut’ is is said that the money was in the care of Richard Knowles of this Parish from 1778 and I can now understand why you think it was beer and bibles.   Your ancestors drunk the beer and none of it went on bibles!!!’.

POOR LAW RECORDS – KENT

	Settlements, bastardy, removal etc. Issued by the Kent History Society
1748 May 20th	Tonbridge: Mary Crundle of Tonbridge, daughter of George Crundle. Thomas Chittenden, labourer, of Boxley. Female child
1781 Dec 6th	Staplehurst: Thomas Chittenden, blacksmith, wife Elizabeth and children Elizabeth, Thomas, Richard, Sarah. Removed from Yalding.
1782 Mar 7th	Staplehurst: Thomas Chittenden, blacksmith, removed to Stone.
1814 Oct 29th	Mersham: Warrant for Anthony Leeds of Mersham, shoemaker for unborn child of Elizabeth Chittenden of Mersham.
1817 Jan 3rd	Wrotham: William Chittenden removed from Mersham to Wrotham.
1823	Tonbridge: Mary Chittenden – Robert Wickham, male child, age 3. Record of Payment to Mary Chittenden. Wickham to Chittenden.
1826 Apr 30th	Mersham: Order on George Chittenden of Wye, labourer, for the female child of Caroline Butcher, singlewoman.
1827 Mar 5th	Wateringbury. John Chittenden, wife Mary,children john 3, Elizabeth 4. Removed to Yalding