Captain John PIGOTT, Collector of Customs in Bermuda.

[One of two portraits of Captain John PIGOTT painted in Bermuda in 1753 by the artist Joseph BLACKBURN.

Now in the possession of the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.]

The American Antiquity Society published, in its April 1936 Journal, an article by John Hill MORGAN and Henry Wilder FOOTE, entitled "An Extension of Lawrence PARK's Descriptive List of the Work of Joseph BLACKBURN," which up-dated an earlier List published by them in 1923, specifically naming an additional 17 portraits painted in Bermuda that were not in the original PARK list. These included portraits of Captain John PIGOTT (numbers 102 and 103) and of his wife (number 104), using an extension of the numbering used in PARK's first list.
At pages 35-37, MORGAN and FOOTE wrote:
"102. JOHN PIGOTT (number 1).
"SUBJECT: John PIGOTT, a son of John PIGOTT of London, was in Bermuda as early as 1743, when he received from Governor Allured POPPLE a grant of a house lot, "Style Point," at St Georges, for a yearly rent of "...one peppercorn, payable at the Feast of St John the Evangelist, or as the sum may be demanded.
"He was Collector of Customs for many years and represented St George's in the House of Assembly in 1746. On 29 December 1745, he married Fanny, daughter of Governor Francis JONES. In 1762, after his return to England, he was appointed Agent for the Bermuda Government."
They identified the background as being Hamilton Harbour, looking towards Paget, and stated that the house on the opposite shore was named "Inwood," the residence of  his father-in-law, Francis JONES.
They further recorded that the second John PIGOTT portrait was almost identical to the first, but with several differences in the boats in the background, and in the costume (the lace at his wrists was ruffled in 102, and plain in 103).
They also recorded that Frances (Fanny) JONES was born on 14 September 1729, daughter of Francis JONES, President of the Council.

The following mentions of John PIGOTT are to be found in "Bermuda in the Old Empire," by Henry C. WILKINSON, Oxford University Press, 1950.
At page 209, in conjunction with Governor William POPPLE having difficulties with his justices in November 1748, with the result that jurors would not be sworn and the courts forced to close; and justices of the peace, as parish assessors, not striking rates or taxes, resulting in no internal revenue collection, etcetera:
"Then, strange as it was, Captain John PIGOTT, the collector of customs, for some private interest of his own, appeared to be in collusion with these justices, and there was no end of these nefarious tricks in sight. (fn 3)
"Footnote 3 - Minutes of Council in Assembly, 13 January 1748-49, 2 May 1749 and 19 November 1751. John PIGOTT, the father of the Captain, had been a close friend of the POPPLEs in England (will of A. POPPLE)." 

Alured POPPLE, an earlier Governor of Bermuda (from 1738 to 1744), was an elder brother of the William POPPLE mentioned above. Alured made his will, dated 15 Apr 1738, at St Margaret's, Westminster, before heading out to his posting (see below), and one of the witnesses was John PIGOTT, of London.
I don't know what evidence WILKINSON had to assert that the will witness was the father of Captain John PIGOTT - perhaps he had read MORGAN and FOOTE's article? My own thinking is that it could instead have been the Captain himself.

POPPLE and his family embarked at Gravesend on 25 April 1738, bound for "...his government of Bermuda" [Daily Gazette, 27 April]. It is possible that John PIGOTT may have travelled with the family, especially if he was a relation (see next below); but if not, then it appears he arrived in Bermuda sometime during the following twelve months - the Bermuda Council Minutes, dated 5 October 1739, in a meeting presided over by Governor POPPLE, noted that Captain PIGOTT had "..sent twelve men to Queen's Fort and six men to Southampton Fort."
Further, Alured POPPLE offered John PIGOTT a house lot grant in Bermuda, which offer he accepted in 1743; and POPPLE also proposed John PIGOTT, a "...Navill Officer," as Receiver of Tonnage Money in Bermuda, in the room of Thomas SMITH, deceased, although I do not yet have a date for this event.

Alured POPPLE died in Bermuda on 17 November 1744, after contracting a fatal illness while attending the funeral of John LEWIS, Collector of Customs at Bermuda; his funeral was widely attended, the pall-bearers were the President (Francis JONES) and five of the senior Councillors, and ".. Master Harry POPPLE, only Son of the deceased, and Captain PIGGOTT, a Relation of the Family's, walked next to the Corps, as Chief Mourners" [Daily Gazetteer, London, Thursday 13 June 1745].

I have so far been unable to find any PIGOTT connection in the POPPLE family tree.
Which might therefor be on his (PIGOTT's) maternal side, ruling him out as being a possible son of my Captain John PIGOTT of Antigua (died in 1710) by his wife Frances PROCTOR.

And later again, we find another appointment, perhaps in consequence of POPPLE's earlier proposal:
"Last week, John PIGOTT, Naval Officer, of Bermuda, was appointed Collector of Customs, in the room of John LEWIS, deceased" [Penny Evening Post, London, Friday 15 May 1745; and Gentleman's Magazine].

Michael JARVIS, in his "In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783," N. Carolina, 2010, at page 539, wrote:

"In the 1740's, the Bermuda Council maintained that only vessels loading or unloading cargoes in Bermuda were obliged to enter: vessels arriving and departing in ballast thus do not appear in Bermuda's NOSL, making it impossible to estimate the number of vessels implicated in smuggling through their ballast voyages...

"POPPLE's 1741 waiter was John LEWIS, who was supposed to board incoming ships at the west End and remain with them until they entered St George's to stop them landing cargoes en route. In practice, several vessels often arrived simultaneously, making LEWIS's task impossible. Since his position was unsalaried, LEWIS was susceptible to bribes. POPPLE found that his English born collector, John PIGGOTT, who '...carries on [trade] under other people's names,' abetted Bermudians in their smuggling. PIGGOTT publicly once called POPPLE '...an impudent son of a bitch' for questioning his meagre effectiveness. (POPPLE in the B.T., April 9, 1750, CO 37/17, folios 60-63.)"

Clearly, the POPPLE Governor in 1741 was Alured, and in 1750 was his brother William. But either way, this is not a polite way to address a man who appears to have been a relation!

WILKINSON makes further mention of John PIGOTT at page 231-32, in connection with the Seven Years War, as it affected trade in Bermuda:
"From Bermuda's point of view, the entry of Spain in the war of 1762 brightened the prospects considerably. Privateering was again attractive. Vessels from elsewhere sought commissions. One of the first to apply at St George's was a ship owned by John PIGOTT, now a well-to-do merchant in London, and the colony's agent."

I presume, from the context, that PIGOTT's ship was seeking a Naval commission to legally employ privateers to protect his ship against the French, or pirates who were again beginning to harass Bermuda's sea-trade traffic.

And again, at page 240-41, in conjunction with punitive Royal Navy measures taken in 1764 against Bermudan's collecting salt on Tortuga, in which close to 100,000 bushels of the harvested salt were confiscated:
"The depredations stirred great animosity in Bermuda, and the legislature hurried to petition the Crown. John PIGOTT, as agent, exerted himself, and the Secretary of State spent three hours considering the difficulties of the salt-gatherers. But, as PIGOTT reported, he made little headway until he remarked that the naval action was really one of black-mail to force Bermudans to pay for an armed escort..."

This salt problem appears to have remained a subject of contention until June 1769, when John POWNALL, of the Board of Trade and Plantations in Whitehall, wrote to Benjamin FRANKLIN, Dennys De BERDT (Agent for Massachusetts), Robert CHARLES (Agent for New York), Joseph SHERWOOD (Agent for Rhode Island) and John PIGOTT (a London Merchant, and Agent for Bermuda), requesting they attend a meeting called by the Earl of Hillsborough to discuss:
"...irregularities committed by Masters of Bermuda Vessels raking salt at Sal Tortuga to the prejudice of Vessels from the other Colonies employ'd in that Traffick."

Being alive in 1769 has entirely eliminated him from any possibility of being my own ancestor, the Dublin M.P., who died in 1763. But in 1764, the Secretary of State was George MONTAGU, the 2nd Earl of Halifax, and a brother-in-law of a brother-in-law of the Captain John PIGOTT who married Constantia Maria BURGOYNE in London in 1730.
There is a possibility this could have been the Captain John PIGOTT who was mentioned by his nephew Robert PIGOTT, the former Inspector-General of Customs and Excise in Dublin, in his 1808 Petition for reinstatement of his pension rights which he addressed to Sir Arthur WELLESLEY:
"...and your Memorialist's only surviving uncle Captain John PIGOTT, after many years foreign service, returned to Ireland in the year 1761, with his brother-in-law the Earl of Halifax, then lord Lieutenant, and died when your Memorialist was an infant."

There is also every possibility that this was the Captain John PIGOTT who was named in the 1760 Hand-list of Voters for Maryborough, as exerting influence over a number of the voters.

But there is no evidence to establish whether this Captain John PIGOTT was Irish; nor whether he was the subject of this article.

In 1772, Henry LIVINGSTON, of the parish of St Mary's, Jamaica, Planter, made his will, in which he wrote:
"What sugar is made in my right, is shipped to London, consigned to Messrs Richard DRAKEFORD and John PIGOTT, Merchants, to whom I am under great obligations."

Whether this is the former Captain from Bermuda is not yet established, but once again, it is a possibility.

No details have yet emerged relating to Captain John PIGOTT's death.
A John PIGOTT, Esq, died in August 1770, at Charlton, in Kent, "...formerly a Commander in the Royal Navy" [General Evening News, 25-28 August] - this could connect, as we know that when he was appointed Collector in Bermuda in 1745, he was identified as a naval officer.
Another John PIGOTT Esq, died at Woolwich in November 1771 [General Evening News, 23-26 November].

There is, likewise, no evidence that I have yet found to indicate whether he and Fanny had any issue.

[Portrait of Mrs John PIGOTT (Fannie JONES) painted in Bermuda in 1753 by the artist Joseph BLACKBURN.

Now in the possession of the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.]

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There was a Frances PIGOT, Widow, of the parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe, County Surrey, whose will was dated 21 May 1764, and proved P.C.C. on 2 July 1764, and who bequeathed her share in two sloops, the "Fanny" and the "Speedwell" to her daughter and grand-daughters. I immediately suspected this Frances's former husband had been involved in the Maritime trade, as a ship owner, perhaps having set out on his mercantile career as a ship's captain - could this have been the former Fanny JONES?

But I see that she could not have been, as Captain John PIGOTT was still acting as Agent in London for the Bermuda Merchants. Frances made mention of her daughter Frances JEFFERIES, the wife of Edward JEFFERIES (he married her at Gillingham, Kent, on 4 April 1752), her grand-daughters Frances and Elizabeth JEFFERIES, her grandson Thomas JEFFERIES, her brother Robert LOCK, and her son Thomas LOCK. This does tend to confirm that she could not have been Fanny JONES.

Further, an addendum overwritten in the Probate grant, dated 8 August 1788, notes that a further administration of the effects of Francis PIGGOTT, late of the parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe, had now been granted to Rev Edward JEFFERIES, the lawful attorney of Ann LOCK, the relict of the Thomas LOCK mentioned in Frances's will, now residing at Newcastle, County Limerick, in Ireland.

In addition, there was a John PIGGOTT, of Paradise Row, Rotherhithe, Attorney, who was buried at St Mary's Rotherhithe, on 28 June 1778; his will, dated 25 May 1776, was proved P.C.C. on 9 August 1776, naming his wife Susanna PIGGOTT; his probate grant was further endorsed on 9 March 1772, when unadministered goods were subject to a further grant, naming Susanna STEWART formerly PIGGOTT, the wife of William STEWART (he married her at Leyton, Essex, on 24 March 1777), and the relict of the said deceased John PIGGOTT.

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THE JONES FAMILY IN BERMUDA.

Francis JONES was born in Newgate, London, on 7 April 1675, a son of Francis JONES and Thomasine COMELEY (they were married at Newgate on 29 December 1673); he died at "Inwood," Paget, Bermuda, in 1714; he married Mary SHERLOCK (born in Bermuda in 1683, a daughter of Samuel SHERLOCK and Hester STOWE); she died at Paget in 1735; they had issue:
1. Francis JONES. See [A] below.
2. Elizabeth JONES; married BUTTERFIELD, with issue - Mary and Nathaniel BUTTERFIELD.
3. Deborah JONES; married WHITE, with issue  two sons and three daughters.
4. Mary JONES; married Thomas PARSONS, with issue - Thomas PARSONS Junior.

[A] Francis JONES, born in Bermuda, 1698; he died at Paget, Bermuda, in 1776; he married firstly, Elizabeth DARRELL; he married 2ndly, Jehoaddan TUCKER; with issue by Elizabeth:

     a. Esther JONES; living in 1789; married at Bermuda, 19 October 1749, John HARVEY.

     b. Thomas JONES; died at Bermuda, 1804; probably married Mary HARVEY; her portrait painted by Joseph BLACKBURN in 1753.

     c. Mary Jane JONES; married Dr George FORBES, M.D., of Bermuda.

     d. Elizabeth JONES; married as his second wife, Cornelius HINSON, with issue a daughter Sarah Rebecca, born 1769 - his daughter Martha (by his first wife) was by 1786 the wife of John GILBERT, as mentioned in Cornelius's will, proved P.C.C.

     e. Francis JONES; his portrait painted by Joseph BLACKBURN, ca 1753.

     f. Nathaniel JONES.

     g. Millicent JONES; married GILBERT.

     h. Anne JONES; married HILL.

     j. Fannie JONES, born at Bermuda on 14 September 1729; died in England; married John PIGOTT (see above).

     k. Debora JONES, born 1740; died 1765;married John STILES, with issue a daughter Sarah and a son John Junior.
Many of the details for this family are recorded on the LAWRIE/NEWMAN/DARRELL family tree on Ancestry.com

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THE POPPLE FAMILY ASSOCIATED WITH BERMUDA.

William POPPLE, born 1665, a son of William POPPLE and Mary ALURED (they were married in Yorkshire by Consistorial License in December 1663 - Mary may have been buried at St John at Hampstead, Camden, on 17 November 1722, a Widow); of Westminster; appointed Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, 14 April 1707 [Post Man and Historical Account, London, 22-24 April], to succeed his father; he died at Hampstead, in May 1722 [Weekly Journal or Saturday Post, 23 May 1722], and was buried at St John at Hampstead, Camden, on 16 May; he was of the Parish of St Clement Danes when he was married, by Consistorial License dated 20 Aug 1698, at All Hallows, Staining, on 6 September 1698, to Anne LAVIE, Spinster, of the Parish of St Dunstan-in-the-West (she was born in 1673); she died in 1730; they had issue:

1. Henry POPPLE, born about 1695 (this date appears to be unlikely, given the marriage date for his parents three years later); Clerk to the Treasurer to Queen Caroline, 1728-1737 (at a salary of £400 pounds a year); Under Treasurer to His Majesty and Agent to Colonel COPE's Regiment, 1734; Deputy Treasurer to Her Majesty's Household, June 1735, when he presented the Queen with a copy of his Map of His Majesty's Plantations in America, "...which met with her most gracious reception" [London Evening Post, 3 June 1735]; Chief Clerk in Her Majesty's Treasury, September 1736; Agent of the Independent Companies Abroad, and to Colonel CORNWALLIS's Regiment of Foot, 1739; said to have left London for Bermuda in April 1739; he died at Bordeaux, France, 27 September 1743, "...a few days since" as "...late Cashier to the Queen's Treasury and Agent to several regiments"  [General Evening Post, London, 6 October 1743].
Henry was married on 19 November 1734, by License dated 15 November, to Anne MOORE, daughter of the late Sir Joseph EDMUNDS-MOORE of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, with a fortune of £6,000 pounds; her will, dated 19 January 1748, was proved P.C.C. on 28 January 1748, naming her late grandmother Dame Anne MOORS (she was a party to Anne's marriage settlements dated 18 November 1734), her sons Henry and William POPPLE, and daughter Magdalen Augusta Isabelle POPPLE, all aged under 21.
Henry and Anne had issue:
     a. Elizabeth POPPLE, born at the Queen's Treasury, Scotland Yard, London, 1 September 1736 [Daily Gazetteer, 2 September 1736], and baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields, 24 September; died before 1748.
     b. Henry Strickland POPPLE, born at Westminster, 1 October 1737, and baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields, 29 October; probably died young.
     c. Henry POPPLE, born 18 March 1739, and baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields, 30 March; named in his mother's will, 1748.
     d. Magdalen Augusta Isabella POPPLE; named in her mother's will, 1748; she was married at St Mary's parish church, St Marylebone, on 18 December 1774, to John LAMBERT.
     e. William POPPLE; named in his mother's will, 1748.

2. Alured POPPLE, born 22 June 1699, and "...a ete battize par M. JOUNEAU" at the French Huguenot Church at Hungerford Market, in Castle Street, Westminster, on 23 June, "...et presentee au batteme par M. and Mme POPPLE, grand pere et grand mere du dit enfent"; Alured succeeded his father, under a promise of the reversion of that position in his father's lifetime, as Secretary to the Board of the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations; appointed to a Commission of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, December 1727 [Daily Journal, 6 December 1727]; appointed Governor of the Bermudas, September 1737, to succeed Mr HOPE, Esq (and was succeeded as Secretary to the Board of Trade and Plantations by Thomas PELHAM Junior, the M.P. for Lewes in Sussex) [Daily Gazetteer, 22 September]; POPPLE made his will at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 15 April 1738; ten days later, he and his family embarked at Gravesend, 25 April 1738, on his voyage to his post in the Bermuda Islands [Daily Gazetteer, Thursday 27 April]; he died at Bermuda, 17 November 1744, "...after a week's illness, universally regretted on account of his mild and just Administration" [Penny London Post, 8-11 March 1745]; he was survived by his wife and "...three small children"; interim Administration of his estate was granted in London on 12 March 1744-45, to William POPPLE, Esq, lawful attorney for Mary POPPLE, the Widow, then residing in the Islands of Bermuda.

Alured was married at St Anne's, Soho, Westminster, 26 December 1723, to Mary KENT (born in 1704); she proved his will on 27 October 1746, after her return to England; she died in 1773; her will, dated 27 April 1768 (then of Crown Court, parish of St Margaret's, Westminster), was proved P.C.C. on 13 November 1773, and named her sister Sophia POPPLE (5 guineas for mourning, and pictures of the LAVIE family), her brother Robert KENT, cousins Sir Robert NETTLETON and Mrs QUIRK, daughters Marianne MATHIAS and Catherine DRAPER, and son Henry POPPLE (Executor).
Alured and Mary had issue:
     a. Marianne POPPLE, born in 1724; a "...small child" in 1744 (?); she died in 1799; she was married at Whitehall Chapel, in October 1752, to Vincent MATHIAS, Esq, Chief Teller under the Receiver-General of His Majesty's Customs.
     b. William Alured POPPLE, born at Whitehall, 24 May 1729, and baptised at St Margaret's, Westminster, 13 June; probably died young
     c. Robert POPPLE, born at Westminster, 6 October 1730, and baptised at St Margaret's, 27 October; probably the son who, "...on Saturday last died of the small pox" at "...his father's house at Hammersmith, 5 November 1736, as "...the son of Alured POPPLE, Esq" [Daily Gazetteer, 8 November 1736].
     d. Catherine POPPLE, born at Hampstead, 17 November 1731, "...a few days since" [Daily Advertiser, 30 November 1731], and was baptised at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 12 December; a "...small child" in 1744; living 1768; married at the parish church of SS John and Martin, Beverley, Yorkshire, on 15 September 1760, to William DRAPER.
     e. Henry POPPLE, born at Westminster, 7 January 1733, and baptised at St Margaret's, 21 January; a "...small child" in November 1744, when, as "...Master Harry POPPLE, only son of the deceased", he walked beside his father's corpse as one of the chief mourners [Daily Gazetteer, 13 June 1745]; possibly appointed Lieutenant, 36th Regiment of Foot, in 1758 (John PIGOTT also served in this regiment, and afterwards settled in Compton Chamberlain, Wiltshire - a Dysart in Queen's County PIGOTT); as executor, Henry proved his mother's will in November 1773.

3. William POPPLE, born in 1701, the third son; possibly appointed in January 1729 as Searcher of the Customs in the Port of London (in the room of Mr CONGREVE); entered the Cofferer's Office, January 1735 (to succeed Captain CHARTERS, deceased); appointed in October 1737 as Solicitor and Clerk of the Reports to the Right Honourable the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations; appointed in March 1745 to succeed his brother Alured as Governor of the Bermudas; died at Hampstead, 8 February 1762; he was married, by Marriage Bonds and Allegations (London and Surrey) dated 20 February 1766, to Anne TOLSON, a daughter of William TOLSON and Margaret MATHEWSON.

4. Sophia POPPLE; lay "...dangerously ill at Whitehall" in October 1749 [Whitehall Evening Post, 19-21 October]; she evidently survived, and died on 2 September 1778 [MUSGRAVE's Obituaries], and was buried at St John at Hampstead, Camden, on 9 September.

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ANOTHER CAPTAIN JOHN PIGOTT IN LONDON IN 1745?

Captain John PIGOTT was attacked near his house by three footpads in or near the Strand, in London, in the early hours of Friday morning, 24 May 1745. The General Evening Post of 23-25 May carried the following report:
"A little after Twelve o'clock last Thursday night, at the end of Villars-street in the Strand, John PIGOTT, Esq, was robb'd of forty four Guineas, eighteen or twenty Shillings in Silver, a silver repeating watch, by three Men who seized him by the throat; one held a Pistol to his head, another a small sword to his Breast, and the third a Hanger over his head; and notwithstanding the great Booty they got, abused him much."

An early arrest was made, as reported in the Penny London Post of 27-29 May 1745:
"Yesterday a most notorious Thief was seized by several of the City Officers, he being violently Suspected to have committed, with other Accomplices, a great many Street-robberies; and carried before Mr Alderman ARNOLD at Guildhall, he said his name was Thomas WOOD, but would make no confession. However, the Alderman committed him to Newgate, on the oath of John PIGGOT, Esq, on a violent suspicion of being concern'd with two others, in assaulting him early last Friday morning at the End of Villars-street in the Strand, and robbing him of a silver watch, value 20 pounds, besides a large Quantity of Money. They abus'd this gentleman in a mots inhuman Manner, and have committed many Robberies lately."

This may have been a matter of false identification, as subsequently, several men were charged with the same offence, but Thomas WOOD was not one of them (perhaps it was an alias), as reported in the Westminster Journal, on Saturday 8 June 1745:
"On Wednesday morning... Thomas ST LEGER and William KELLY were committed to Newgate by Alderman COCKAYNE... on the oath of Mr DAY, the Constable, on a strong suspicion of being concern'd in robbing Capt PIGGOT a few days since."

And a third man was also implicated, but again, it was not Thomas WOOD, as the General Evening Post reported on 4-6 June 1745:
"Yesterday... was committed... Likewise William KELLY and Thomas ST LEGER, otherwise SELLINGER, for feloniously being concerned with one Patrick CAVE (in the same place) in assaulting John PIGGOTT, Esq, of Villars-street, York Buildings, near his own house, and robbing him of a silver-repeating watch value 20 pounds, and 4 guineas."

Justice took its course, and the sentences were reported in the Daily Post on Friday 12 July 1745:
"Yesterday, 21 prisoners were try'd at the Old Baily, four of whom were capitally convicted, viz. William KELLY, Thomas ST LEGER, and Patrick CAVE, for robbing John PIGGOTT, Esq, of his watch and forty guineas in the Strand..."

The executions of two of the convicted followed soon after, as reported in the Penny London Post of 26-29 July 1745:
"On Friday... William KELLY and Thomas ST LEGAR, for robbing Capt PIGGOT at the End of York Buildings in the Strand, were executed at Tyburn."

Clearly this could hardly have been Captain John PIGOTT of Bermuda, who was at that time attending to his business in Bermuda, having been a principal mourner at the funeral of the late Governor, Alured POPPLE, in late November 1744, and being promoted into the post of Collector of Customs in Bermuda in May 1745 (unless he had returned to London in the meantime, and had yet to set out back to Bermuda to take up is new appointment?).
Perhaps it was instead the former Captain with the BURGOYNE spouse, on a visit to his old haunts in London, and on leave from his second BABINGTON alias JOHNSTON wife in Dublin?

Nevertheless, the trial report in the on-line Central Criminal Court files records one very significantly different detail - the identification of Captain PIGOTT. There, he is recorded as Thomas PIGGOT, and this is what he had to say:
"Thomas PIGGOTT. On Thursday the 23rd of May, I supped with some West India merchants at the King's Arms Tavern, in Lombard street. About eleven o'clock we paid the bill, and ordered the waiter to get a Coach. We waited the return of the porter, but no coach could be got. Between 11 and 12 it being a fine star-light night, I put my sword and cane under my arm and walked. When I had just got beyond Somerset house, I saw KELLY and ST LEGAR behind me; and there was a drunken soldier before me, who staggered so, that he hindered my passing; when I found I could not easily get by, I whipped into the street in order to pass by him; then KELLY and ST LEGAR followed me; when I came to one of the dark passages in the Strand, I stopped to let them pass me, for I thought they wanted to walk faster than I; and when I stopped, they stopped. I thought it was done out of complaisance. When I came to Buckingham street in the Strand , I turned down four or five yards, thinking it was Villars street where I live, but seeing the gate at the end of the street, I found my mistake, and returned; at the end of the street in the Strand, that poor man Cave looked me full in the face, KELLY seized me with his left hand by the throat, and put a pistol or something like it to my temples, and thrust it as hard as he could against them, and swore by his Maker if I spoke a word he would blow my brains out. I said don't use me ill, it is not in my power to resist you, gentlemen, I see what you are about, and I cannot hinder you.
"Q. Who were then present?
"PIGGOTT. They were all three present, and KELLY said, D--n you, you son of a b----h, do you speak, by G-d if you do, I'll murder you; upon that I was quite silent, and made no reply. He still kept hold of me by the collar; then he took hold of my watch string, he could not easily get the watch out, so he tore open my breeches, and took the watch out and put it into his pocket. Then he put his hand into my right hand pocket, and took out all my silver and brass, I believe about 10 s. He searched with his hand on the side of my breeches, till he felt the purse; by his hurry I thought he would have torn the purse out. I said you may take it, he said, D--n you, you son of a b---h, you shall give it me, and I gave him the purse with 40 odd guineas; I think there were 44 guineas and a half in it. As soon as he had got that, he put his right hand upon my shoulder and turned my face down towards Buckingham street, and he swore by his Maker if I made a noise or offered to follow him, he would murder me, and bid me go down that street. Just as I turned the corner I received a stroke on the left side of my neck with some weapon, which I suppose was done with a design to knock me down.
"Q. Had ST LEGAR any weapon?
"PIGGOTT. While KELLY was robbing me, ST LEGAR stood just before me with a drawn sword, and held the point of it close to my breast, and CAVE stood on the left hand with a drawn hanger over my head. I did intend to purse them, and I should certainly have overtaken them before they came to the watch, but my breeches being unbuttoned hindered me. I called to the watch, and said I was robbed by three men, and the watchman said they were just run by him; he asked me if I thought I should know them again, I said, yes; he said go home and change your clothes and follow them, but I thought they would certainly be housed before I could do that. I acquainted Mr BOWLEY, the watchmaker in Lombard street with the robbery, and concluded to advertise my watch, with ten guineas reward; he advised me not to advertise it as stole, but as lost, and then I might possibly have it again. I advertised it on Saturday the 25th of May. Mr HALL seeing the advertisement that morning, went to Mr BOWLEY, and told him that such a watch had been offered to him to be pawned to him for three guineas, and he refused to take it in. Mr HALL's boy found out where the woman lived who pawned it, in  Scroop's court against St. Andrew's church in Holborn. Mr HALL's boy went with me to CAVE's house, (for this woman was CAVE's wife.) I told her if she did not let me have the watch I would send for a constable, and send her to Bridewell. Then she said she had it of one ST LEGAR. I found by examining her, that KELLY and ST LEGAR lodged at CAVE's house; I sent for a case of pistols, and waited a whole day over against the house, but none of them came. A woman gave intimation to CAVE's wife, that KELLY was in trouble about a watch; I had information of a place of resort, and went with a woman to one RADDY's, in Catharine street in the Strand, in order to find out KELLY's wife, for HALL's boy followed the boy WOOD [*], who came for KELLY's wife. But when they found they were watched, WOOD run away, and KELLY's wife was housed at RADDY's. As I was talking, I discovered WOOD, and told him I believed he was an accomplice, and if he would not make a discovery, I would take him up.[* This Wood was in custody upon this account.]
"He said, did I rob you, what business have you to take me up? I sent KELLY's wife to the Counter that night, and went to RADDY's again to look after these fellows; and RADDY told me, if you get your watch again, and some part of the money, I believe you will be easy: I said I should be glad to have my watch again, but as to my money I did not expect. I told him by what he had said about the watch, I knew him to be an ill man, and I would take care to get him punished; and he said, master, if I am rightly informed, every part of the money is in KELLY's wife's drawers: I said I would not go about it at that time o'night for fear of being knocked on the head; and I said, if you don't assist me in taking these fellows, and shew some degree of honesty, you shall be punished. He afterwards informed me, that the boy I had taken up [WOOD] had the watch. I went to the boy to the Counter, and he told me he had lain upon the ground all night, and I gave him two shillings for his lodging: then he told me the watch was at one Sarah HOLLAND's in Stewart's Rents in Dirty Lane, in a cushion, in a two armed chair, in a paper. I went there, there was a great mob, and with much persuasion and many promises they let me into the room; when I got into the room, I went directly to the two armed chair, and found the watch in a white paper in the inside of the cushion among the hair. Patrick CAVE was apprehended, and desired to speak to me; he was going to say something to me, I said, I do not want you to say any thing, for I know all your faces very well; and he said he would give me information where the other people were, and I believe he did all that was in his power to find them out.
"KELLY and ST LEGER were taken the 5th of June in the Minories for an assault, in knocking down a bricklayer's man for looking at them: they were carried to the watch-house without Aldgate, and safely conveyed to the Counter by Mr DAY the beadle of Portsaken Ward; there was a powder horn and a brass ball found in KELLY's pocket.
"CAVE. I would ask the Gentleman, whether I did not offer to come to him if he would not molest me, and went to Esquire PIGGOTT, and told him all I knew.
"PIGGOTT. When I came to RADDY's house, RADDY said I am very glad you are here, for I have received a message from Cave, that he is under a vast concern, and cannot eat or drink, and that he would be glad to see you if you will promise not to take him that night; I told him I would not take him that night; he came and we had a great deal of talk. I did design to admit that man [CAVE] an evidence, but I was told my recognizance would be estreated, and I must prosecute.
"Edmund HALL. I am a pawnbroker in Gray's-Inn Lane. Sarah CAVE brought this watch to me, and wanted three guineas upon it. I asked her whose it was; she said it was a gentleman's: I told her I did not chuse to lend any money upon it without seeing the gentleman: she came again, and said, what signifies seeing the gentleman; but I would not have any thing to do with it. I sent my boy to DAWSON's at Furnival's-Inn Cellar, and there was a man in a livery [which I take to be CAVE] and the woman gave the watch to him.
"William PARROT. My master said he would not lend any money upon it without seeing the gentleman, and he bid me go with her; she was unwilling I should go; I went with her to Furnival's-Inn Cellar, and the prisoner Patrick CAVE came and confabulated with me some time, and Mrs CAVE gave the watch I believe to Patrick CAVE himself, and then she said the gentleman does not care you should see him, and so you may go back again. My master seeing the advertisement, said, the watch the woman brought, is stole. I went to Mr BOWLEY's, and told him what had happened, and I found Mrs CAVE, out in Scroop's Court in Holborn. I said, Mrs CAVE, you must give a particular account how you came by this watch, or you will bring yourself into further trouble, and then she said she had it from ST LEGAR.
"Patrick CAVE. As I was coming home to my own house from my master's at Lambeth after twelve o'clock, I saw Mr PIGGOTT pass by, he was dressed well: I had my master's hanger under my arm, and I saw KELLY and ST LEGAR in the Strand, and I came up with them. I was there to be sure. Mr PIGGOTT advertised the watch, and my wife owned she had it, I gave it to her. I lived with Mr WARD about four years, and had a good character, and never was concerned in any such thing before; and when I met him, I told him I would do him all the service I could, and inform him of the haunts of the persons who were concerned with me, and so I did.
"ST LEGAR. I never was concerned in any robbery with either of them.
"KELLY. I have nothing to say, but I leave myself to God and your Honours.
"CAVE. ST LEGAR came into my house, took a watch out of his pocket, and laid it upon the table. I was surprised how he should have a watch, because I never saw one with him before: the next day I was desired by Mr ST LEGAR to pawn this watch.
"ST LEGAR. It is very hard she should say I gave her the watch, when CAVE gave her the watch.
"Q. Did your husband give you the watch, or did ST LEGAR give it you?
"CAVE. ST LEGAR gave me the watch.
"William KELLY, Thomas ST LEGAR, Patrick CAVE, guilty. Death .
"Sarah CAVE guilty as an accessary.
"The Prosecutor recommended Patrick CAVE to the Court for mercy."
[Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 23 June 2016), July 1745, trial of William Kelly Thomas St. Legar Patrick Cane Sarah Cane (t17450710-27).]

I suppose the big question here is whether the Press Reporters fabricated the Captaincy title as well as the given name of John? And it is interesting to note the censored language used by the footpads, when the missing letters are inserted, is identical to the phrase that Captain John PIGOTT used to describe William POPPLE in 1750. Not that this proves anything, other than that Sea Captains appear to have had a "colourful" vocabulary.

However, here again, from another item on the same web-site, it appears that even the Old Bailey could not record details consistently, and the robbed man has become Robert PIGOTT:
"Thursday the 18th day of July the report was made to their Excellencies the Lords of the Regency, when their Lordships were pleased to pardon Patrick CAVE, and to order the other three for execution.
"William KELLY, Thomas ST LEGAR and Patrick CAVE, of the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, were indicted for violently assaulting and putting in fear of his life Robert PIGGOT, Esq, and taking from him his watch and forty guineas, the property of the said Robert PIGGOT, Esq."
[Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 23 June 2016), Ordinary of Newgate's Account, July 1745 (OA17450726).]
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ANOTHER CAPTAIN PIGOTT IS ROBBED IN LONDON IN 1767.

The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser published the following item in its issue of Thursday 12 February 1767:
"Saturday night last, about 12 o'clock, Capt PIGGOT, formerly in the West India trade, was coming up the road behind St George's church in the East, he was attacked by a single footpad  and knocked down; but the Captain recovering, rose and knocked the footpad down, and then proceeded on;
but soon after two more came up, knocking him down, cut him in several places, robbed him of a gold watch and a purse containing upwards of six guineas, and then threw him into a ditch, leaving him for dead."
A later issue of the same newspaper, dated 2 March 1767, reported the committal of Daniel HOBBS for "...robbing Capt John PICKETT of a gold watch."

Now this one could not have been the Captain John PIGOTT who had married Constantia Maria BURGOYNE in 1730 - he is confidently connected with the death of the Irish M.P. in Dublin in December 1763.
But, it could well have been the above Captain John PIGOTT who spent some years in Bermuda.

And, once again, the details are recorded on-line:
"267. Daniel HOBBS was indicted, for that he on the king's highway, on John PICKET, Esq, did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and violently taking from his person a gold watch, value 20 l., a cornelian seal set in gold, value 2 l., a gold mourning ring, value 10 s.. a clasp pocket knife, value 6 d., five guineas and a half, and 13 s. in money numbered, the property of the said John, February 8.
"John PICKET, Esq; About a quarter past twelve at night, on the 8th of February, I was on foot alone, coming from Ratcliff; and between that and Goodman's-fields , I was either pushed down, or knocked down by a man; I believe it was the latter; I cannot swear to the man; I thought there were two men, but am not sure; I saw no arms; I can't remember the man said any thing to me before I was down.
"Q. Had you been drinking?
"PICKET. I had.
"Q. Can you tell whether you was tripped up, or how?
"PICKET. I certainly was struck down; I made no resistance.
"Q. Did the man ask you for your money?
"PICKET. No, he took it when I was down, without asking; he took my gold watch, and mourning ring, five guineas and a half, and 14 or 15 s. in silver from me.
"Thomas GARDNER. I received a letter from Mr ALSORTH of Isleworth, wherein he acquainted me there was a gold watch with my name, No 3341. had been offered to a neighbour of his for four guineas and a half, I went there after the watch was delivered into my hand, I knew it, having made it for the prosecutor, and he gave me twenty-six guineas for it; I asked for the man that had it; the woman said he was at her house; we sent for an officer, and he was taken at the Red Lion there it was the prisoner at the bar he had a cockade in his hat, was a ma[indecipherable word] we searched him, the first thing taken from him was a clasp knife; the prisoner was then charged with robbing the prosecutor; it was asked whether he had any body with him in this affair; he said there was nobody but himself, that the gentleman was very much in liquor, and he followed him, and when he attacked him he tell like a log upon his back, and then he took the watch and things from him; I asked him after the ring, he said he had it about him; then he took it out of his pocket in a purse, and delivered it, we took him before Sir John FIELDING, and he committed him.
"John LEWIS. I am headborough and beadle of the parish of Isleworth; I took this clasp knife out of the prisoner's pocket on the 18th of February; (the watch, ring, purse, and knife, produced and deposed to by prosecutor) I was sent for to the Red Lion, there was the watchmaker, and they had the prisoner there; they charged him with robbing a captain on the highway; the prisoner said he was the man, and mentioned the several things he had taken from him; but said, the captain may say what he will, I took no more money from him than two guineas, two half guineas, and about 12 or 13 s.
"Eleanor ANSEL. My mother keeps the Red Lion at Isleworth; the prisoner brought a watch and desired me to say it by for him; (she is shewed the watch) I believe it to be the same but cannot swear to it; I laid it by, and after that delivered it to my sister, the next witness.
"Anne Catharine PRUDA. I received this watch (I believe it to be the same) of my sister, and delivered it to a boy to carry to Mr ALSORTH.
"Mr ALSORTH. Mrs ANSEL sent this watch to me, to get the opinion of a gentleman at Isleworth of the value of it; he informed me it was a gold watch of value, and advised them not to buy it; I saw the knife, purse, and ring taken from the prisoner, which the prosecutor swore to.
"Prisoner's defence. I am quite innocent of the affair; I asked liberty of my captain to come to London, he granted me two days. I went into New Gravel-lane, and returned the next morning. I picked these things up upon the road.
"Guilty. Death."
[Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 24 June 2016), April 1767, trial of Daniel Hobbs (t17670429-66).]
The sentence was commuted to Transportation for Life.

PIGOTT Family mentions in Quaker Records of Tithe Confiscations in the Queen's County in Ireland.

My knowledge of matters relating to Tithes, their assessments and collections, is not expansive. I have always understood that the word tithe originated as a one-tenth part, and that tithe assessments would, by-and-large, have been around that proportion of a person's income, in cash or kind.

Inevitably, church tithes were the parochial equivalent of present day Council Rates; and in the mono-ecclesiastical era preceding the Commonwealth inter-regnum, everyone was expected to pay their tithes. The Vestry had responsibility for local minor roads, and town and village streets and laneways; and of course, the Market Square, with the parish pump in the days before water was reticulated into homes in pipes. These "infrastructure" assets cost money to construct and maintain, and everyone shared in the benefits. But these tithes also supplemented the Vicar's stipend, paid the Church wardens wages, and fattened the accounts of the local principal land-owners.

I have become increasingly aware, over the years, of the resistance by members of dissenting church bodies against tithe assessments of church wardens, and others, associated with the Established Church in England and in Ireland. Before CROMWELL's time, the Anabaptists were active, and in the early days of the Commonwealth, religious diversity was tolerated, with the rise of odd groups like the Muggletonians, and the Irish "Strokers" associated with Valentine GREATRAKES, as well as the Quakers, who first appeared in County Armagh in 1654. And the Baptists, having formally adopted that name in England about 1644, were very much in the mix as well.

But after the Restoration, that tolerance quickly began to evaporate; the Quaker's Act of 1662 made it illegal to refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, who was, after all, the Head of the Church in England and in Ireland.

I was also aware that in particular, the punitive treatment meted out to members of the Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers), led to much suffering, especially when they were sent to prison even after tithe confiscations had been exacted. After James II's Declaration of Indulgence in 1687, the English Parliament passed the Toleration Act of 1689. This eased the obligations imposed in the 1662 Quaker's Act. While the Quakers could now meet in public as dissenters without breaking the law (which they had been doing anyway), it certainly did not stop the tithe persecutions, nor the beatings and gaolings for outspoken dissent. In 1681, William PENN, who had spent time in County Cork in 1667, attending to his father's estates, and was known to Charles II, was granted the right to establish a Quaker settlement in America, in a colony that became known as Pennsylvania.

But the mechanics of tithing has, until now, remained somewhat of a mystery.

I have recently discovered a fairly comprehensive record of "Sufferings" in the form of Congregational Records of the Quakers in Ireland, which "register books" have been digitalised, and the images made available on the findmypast.co.uk web-site, under licensing arrangements made by the copyright holder, the Historical Society of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland Archives, and which I have accessed using the institutional subscription of the State Library of N.S.W.

My specific interest in these records lies in the mentions made in them of members of my ancestral family members, the PIGOTT's of Dysart in the Queen's County.
And of them, there are over 200 mentions, more than 180 of those being in the category of "Sufferings" - an ongoing and very detailed written account of those Quakers who had had goods and possessions taken from them for the "non-payment" of tithes, and for other intermittent assessments made for the maintenance of the Parish Church, and for wages of the Church Wardens.

And the PIGOTTs are, of course, the "bad guys" - named as tithetakers, as tithemakers, and also as both forms of the authority these first two groups have cited - the Vicar of the parish, and the Proprietor of the principal estate, who was also the Patron of the Parish, and who had appointed the vicar in the first place.
This three tiered hierarchy is clearly stated in nearly all of the records pertaining to the combined parishes of Dysart and Kilteale, in the Queen's County, which were administered by the one Vicar, and for very many years had the one church building, located very near the Dysart estate buildings.

And what I find there is a very clear confirmation of the lineage of the Proprietors of the Dysart Estate, in these records entitled the Impropriator, from the earliest record dated 1671, up until the latter part of the 18th century.
Further, the names of the Vicar of Dysart and Kilteale, recorded in these accounts as "...ye Priest of ye Parish," also follow a very recognisable pattern, with only two occasions where other records of Ecclesiastical Appointments do not quite match the Quaker records, as we shall see below.
And finally, the numerous PIGOTTs mentioned at the lower end of the tiered scale, the Tithe-takers, are mostly recognisable, if not able to be conclusively identified from among two or more contemporary relations with the same given name.
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FARMING METHODS IN THE HARVESTING OF TILLAGE CROPS.

My knowledge of farming methods is probably much inferior to my limited knowledge of tithing.

However, some quick and necessarily superficial reading indicates that grain crops, like wheat, barley, oats and bere (a type of barley, perhaps better suited to more extreme northern climates such as the Orkney Islands and in Norway), were often rotated, with root crops (particularly potatoes) grown between rotations of wheat and barley.
I also discover that wheat and barley (particularly barley intended for malting into beer or vinegar), was left to fully ripen before harvesting, and so could be threshed sooner, and sometimes even at the time of harvesting; and that oats were usually cropped on the green side, which meant that sheaves were stored in stooks to dry out before threshing.
And I am guessing that a stook is merely a stack of sheaves, but inevitably placed in such a way as to facilitate drying of the ears and the stalks.
However, we find from an entry made in 1704, that the "...most part of a stack of wheat" contained "...about 550 sheaves"; likewise "...one stook and a half of bere being about 1,000 sheaves, three stooks and a half of oats being about 2,840 sheaves, part of a stook of barley about 480 sheaves"; which suggests that on average, a stook held somewhere between 666 sheaves (bere) and 810 (oats).

Grain crops were cut, I gather, near the ground, probably using a sickle in one hand to cut a bundle of stalks held in the other, and quantities of cut stalks with heads were then bound into a sheave, which might be left standing where cut in the field, until placed in stooks, or threshed on the spot if they were ripe enough.
I had also thought it likely that a farmer would probably move his harvest into protective shelter, but I also now understand that stooks were set up in the fields where they were cut so that those crops harvested on the green side could dry out, but with a roof of straw to keep the rain off; so perhaps the threshing of stook-dried sheaves also took place out of doors, weather permitting.

This goes a small way to explain the mention in entries of the quantities of each crop type - some were in sheaves, some from stooks, both before threshing had taken place, and others in car loads, perhaps the grain after threshing, with the remaining hay taken away likewise in car loads.

Although I was originally none the wiser as to what quantity a car load actually represents. I had thought it may have been a cart load, perhaps drawn by oxen, but the sheer numbers involved would appear to have taken too long to transport from farm to tithe barn. Perhaps the farmer used a smaller hand cart to transport his crops from field to his own barn for threshing or storage, and this may have been used as the measure?
However, an entry for 1702 does go some way to answering this question - it recorded that "...2 carloads of bere computed to be 180 sheaves" and that "...1 carload of wheat computed to be 80 sheaves" - which aren't exactly the same, but are probably close enough.

The monetary values attributed to individual items confiscated are also not entirely clear, and probably varied over the seasons and across the years.
We find from an entry made in 1723, that "...40 fleeces of wool" was stated to be "...worth £3:10:0" - that is, each fleece was priced at 1 shilling and 9 pence.
The same 1723 entry also recorded that "...30 lambs and 70 fleeces of wool" were estimated to be "...worth £7:18:0" - from which we can calculate that a lamb was estimated to be worth 1 shilling and 2 pence farthing.
Or I thought it did? But after a second mathematical iteration, I'm not so sure! So happy that we have been spared those ongoing calculations, with 20 shillings to the pound and 12 pence to the shilling, after the decimalisation of our currency here in Australia in 1966.
The same entry records that about 22 and a half carloads of assorted crops was valued at £9:9:6, at an average of about 8 shillings and 6 pence per carload, which, from data mentioned above, computes to about 1 pence farthing a sheave, which doesn't sound like very much. Even in 1723 prices.
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THE IRISH QUAKER RECORDS OF TITHE SUFFERINGS.

The entries are written into register books, which, as the Society spread to other Provinces, were subsequently titled using the following general format:

"Sufferings of Friends in ... Province in the year ... because for conscience sake they could not pay Tithes and Priest's wages, the repairs of the Worship House, etc, with such like other demands."

Very few of the entries have more date information than the just the year. I suspect that tithing was probably done when the tithe barn was full or filling - that is, probably during the latter stages of the harvest season, perhaps about mid to late autumn (October/November)? It may also have coincided with the Autumnal Ecclesiastical Quarter day, 21 September.

The spelling of the PIGOTT surname varied, as usually occurs when records are written by people who do not bear the name, but has been standardised below using the spelling used in the signature of every member of the Dysart family who signed a deed which still survives.
I have also standardised the spelling of the word tithe, variously spelt by the Quaker scribes otherwise as Tyth and Tythe; as well as the tithe crop named bere (a type of barley), for Bare, Bear, and Beare; and also two means of the taking - carload for Carr Loade, and stooks, occasionally rendered as Stacks and Stakes.

I have also inserted, at appropriate times, known genealogical details of individual family members mentioned in the records. In particular, there are a number of citations from Rev J.B. LESLIE's "Biographical Succession List of the Clergy of Kildare Diocese," 1904, for the Parish of Dysart-Enos, at pages 209-210 [LESLIE].

Apart from several early mentions of the affairs of Rosenallis Parish, where a junior branch of the PIGOTTs were Proprietors of the Capard estate, the vast majority pertain to tithings in the Parishes of Dysart and Kilteale.

The first Register Book to record Queen's County Sufferings was entitled:

"The Register Book of the Sufferings of some of the Lord's people in Ireland; who by scornfull Spirits Are Called Quakers; now living in or neare Mountmellick, in ye yeare 1661."

And it followed the misfortunes of several men called Quakers, namely William and John EDMONDSON, as they moved from Lurgan, "...Countie Ardmagh" (1654 to 1656), through Belturbet in County Cavan (1656 to 1658), and finally to Mountmellick, Queen's County by 1658.
William EDMONDSON had been a soldier in the Parliamentary Army in England, but left it to go to Ireland with his wife Margaret; and on a short return visit to England, he heard word of the Society of Friends, and became a "missionary" for them on his return to Lurgan, in County Armagh.
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THE PIGOTT MENTIONS IN THE QUAKER RECORDS.

The first mention of the name PIGOTT did not appear until 1672, although it was in reference to a group of tithe demands first made in 1666, and William EDMUNDSON was the first named of that particular group, as follows.

1672:
"William EDMONDSON, Godfrey CANTREL, William BARCROFT, Roger BOSWELL, Thomas STALKER, Tobias PLODMORE, Thomas STEVENSON, John THOMPSON and John CANTRELL, because for conscience sake could not pay £1 16s and 10d demanded in the year 1666 towards the repainting of the parish worship house of Rosenallis, had then goods taken from them worth £6 8s and 6d; and notwithstanding, at the following archives [probably in error for Assizes] were presented for non-payment of the said demand and so indicted and cast into prison, and upon application to the then Lord Lieutenant and Council, they gave instructions to the judges to quash the said indictment in order to their inlargement, which was accordingly done.
"Yet Thomas PIGOTT of Disert, who was then High Sheriff of the said county, got at last summer Assizes an order to distrain Friends goods for non payment of fees, through pretence that Hercules DOXE, Clerk of the Crown, had recovered the fees from him; and so since, the said PIGOTT went in person with some bailiffs and Attendants into the possessions of Friends and from William EDMONDSON they took away 4 cows of English breed worth £10, Goodfrey CANTRILL 4 cows of the like kind worth £9, William BARCROFT 3 cows (likewise) £10, Roger BOSWELL 3 cows (likewise) £6, Thomas STALKER tanned hides and other goods worth £10, Tobias PLODWAY cloth and household goods worth £7, amounting in all to £52.
"George RUSSELL of Garrach, for 40s value of tithe demanded for Robert JONES, Priest of Caterlogh, had taken from him 1 cow, 4 heifers and 2 bullocks worth £14 by the said priest, with Paratox PROCTOR, and John MURRAY, Constable, by virtue of a warrant from Thomas PIGOTT and Robert HARTPOLE called Justices of the Peace."

Thomas PIGOTT was born about 1640-41, son of Robert PIGOTT (born about 1613 and died a week before his father in 1646), the heir apparent to Dysart, by his wife Ann GILBERT; Thomas probably obtained livery of Dysart about 1661-62, and was married to Elizabeth WELDON in 1663.

1674 - 5th of 5 entries for that year:
"Richard JACKSON had near 40 stooks of oats taken from him by Daniel MOORE, Charles MUCKELMORE and Arthur PIGOTT, Tithemongers, by order from Charles DUN, Impropriator, and George CLAPHAM, Priest of Mountmellick, for tithe, worth 9s."

Arthur PIGOTT (here, and the next) was probably the youngest son of Sir Robert PIGOTT (1565-1642) and his second wife Thomasin CASTILLION alias PEYTON (and so probably born about 1610-1620). Indeed, there is no other Arthur PIGOTT mentioned in any Irish record for this period. He was named in his father's will, dated 1641; and he was named as being present at the storm and sack of Dysart by rebels on 6 October 1646, in his sister-in-law Martha PIGOTT's deposition taken 3 weeks after the sack, and as having secured the grate after Barnaby DUNN was allowed out to negotiate terms of a cessation. Charles DUN may have been related to Barnaby DUNN, who had married as his second wife and her second husband, Elizabeth alias Isabel COSBY, the eldest daughter of Sir Robert PIGOTT by his first wife Anne St LEGER.

1679:
"Godfrey CANTRELL had taken from him, by Arthur PIGOTT called Churchwarden of the parish of Rosenallis, and James MITTON, Constable, the 11th day of the 10th month, one pewter dish worth 3s 4d, for 2s 4d demanded for their worship-house lobie, because for conscience sake he could not pay the sum."

1693:
"William EDMONDSON, for 1s 10d demanded, toward the repair of Rosenallis Worship House, had taken from him by Thomas PIGOTT and John HILL, called Church Wardens - one hand saw and a spade worth 3s 6d."

Thomas PIGOTT is not formally identified. He was probably one of the younger sons of Thomas PIGOTT of Dysart, the Impropriator, unless instead a Capard cousin. He may have witnessed John PIGOTT of Kilcromin and Antigua's will in 1708-09.

1695:
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by Peter WEAVER, Thomas HUGHES and other assistants, Tithe gatherers for John WEAVER Junior, farmers of tithe under Thomas PIGOTT, Impropriator - about 50 fleeces of wool and 33 lambs, all worth £9 9s. And by the aforesaid Peter WEAVER, George SLATER and other assistants - of wheat, bere, barley and oats, worth about £2, some of it being taken on the highway by carloads, and some out of the stooks in a confused manner..."

1698:
"An account of goods taken from several friends on account of the double part of the pole.
"William EDMONDSON, by order of Colonel WARNFORD, Richard WARBURTON, Hopton HARRITT, Lancelot SANDS, Robert PIGOTT and Richard HALL, Priest, Commissioners for the said pole, for 10 shillings 6d pence demanded, had taken from him by John IVETTIN (?) Collector, - 1 dipex (? perhaps diaper) table cloth, 2 dipex napkins, 1 warming pan, 2 brass candlesticks and a smoothing iron, all worth 19 shillings.
"Joshua BEALE, for £3 15 s demanded, had taken from him by the said collectors - about a hundred yards of Linen Cloth worth £5 16s 6d.
"Richard GUY, for 10s 6d demanded, had taken from him by the said collectors - Linen Cloth and Frieze worth 16s. And had his shop box snatched away by the collectors and 5s 3d taken out of it.
"Tobyas PLEADWELL, for 2s 3d demanded, had a coat taken from him worth 4s 6d by the said collectors.
"John SOFTLAW, for £1 1s. demanded, had 5 yards of Camelot and 28 yards of Curlderoy (? corduroy) taken from him by the collectors, worth £1 12s.
"Robert JACKSON, for 19s 6d demanded, had stopt in payment of money by the said collectors 6s 9d and had a barrel of Malt taken worth 16s, in all worth £1 2s 9d."
"John GOODBODY, for 3s demanded, had taken from him - a sheet and pillion, both worth 8s."
Ralph STEVENSON, for 13p demanded, had taken from him by the said collectors - 1 brass skillet worth 3s."
"Thomas ATKINSON had taken from him by the said collectors, for 2s 3d demanded - 2 pewter dishes, worth 4s.
"Francis SHANAN had taken from him by the said collectors, for 13p demanded - an iron pot, worth 3s 6d.
"William QUIN had taken from him by the said collectors, for 2s 3d, demanded - one sheet and a pot, worth 3s 6d.
"Joshua PEET had taken from him by Thomas LAWSON and William DOXXAN (?), Priest, Collectors, by order of John BARRINGTON Roger ALLEN and Andrew NESBITT, priest, Commissioners, for 9 shillings demanded, 6 pounds of worsted worth 12 s."

Robert PIGOTT was born about 1664, eldest son and heir of Thomas PIGOTT and Elizabeth WELDON. Lancelot SANDES was Thomas PIGOTT's son-in-law, having married Elizabeth PIGOTT, one of Thomas's daughters. Andrew NESBITT had been instituted on 20 May 1692 as Vicar of Dysart-Enos and Kilteale, with the Vicarage of Nogh(?)vale and Moyanna [D.R.]; he died in 1712 (see Balintubber) [LESLIE, page 209]; he was married to Martha PIGOTT, a daughter of John PIGOTT of Rahineduff (an uncle of Thomas PIGOTT) by his wife Mary EDGEWORTH (the widow of Pierce MOORE).

1699:
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by John PIGOTT (and assistants), Tithetaker under Andrew NESBITT, priest of the parish of Dysart and Kilteale, and John WEAVER Junior, tithemonger under Thomas PIGOTT, Impropriator - 7 carloads of wheat, besides 1 whole stook of wheat out of 3 stooks, 1 stook and a half of bere, 6 carloads of barley, 9 carloads of oats, 1 carload of pease and 14 carloads of hay. And by Thomas HUGHS and Thomas LUTTERILL (and assistants), Servants of the said priest NESBITT - 51 lambs and about 76 fleeces of wool..."

John PIGOTT is not formally identified. However, he is very likely to have been John of Kilcromin and Antigua, the second son of Thomas PIGOTT and Elizabeth WELDON; he returned to Ireland from Antigua in about 1697-98 with his wife Frances and their young family, and established them in the house at Kilcromin, where the family grew; but he went back to the West Indies in 1708-09, perhaps alone, and was killed at St John's in the PARKE Riot in December 1710. See also 1706 below.

1700:
"Jacob THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by Alexander PIGOTT and his assistant, Tithetakers under Andrew NESBIT, Priest of ye parish of Kilteale, and John WEAVER ye younger, Tithe-monger under Thomas PIGOTT, Impropriator - 3 carload of bere, 2 of wheat, 2 of oats, 1 of barley and pease, and 4 of hay, all worth £1 18s."
"Henry RIDGWAY of Ballycarrill had taken from him for tithe, by ye said Alexander PIGOTT and Assistants, Tithe-taker as aforesaid - 1 Stook and a half of bere, 1 stook and part of another of wheat, 2 stooks and part of another of oats, part of a stook of barley, and about 200 carloads of hay, all worth about £12:0:0..."

Alexander PIGOTT is not formally identified. He was probably either another younger son of Thomas PIGOTT and Elizabeth WELDON, or instead a first cousin (or a son thereof), perhaps of Innishannon, County Cork, or of Rahineduff in Queen's County. See also 1704 below.

1702:
"Jacob THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by John McOBOY, William McOBOY and their Assistant, Tithetakers under John WEAVER the younger, Tithemonger under Thomas PIGOTT, Impropriator, and Andrew NESBITT (spelled WESTBITT), Priest of the Parishes of Disart and Kilteale - 2 carloads of hay, 2 carloads of bere computed to be 180 sheaves, 1 carload of wheat computed to be 80 sheaves, 1 load of pease about 50 sheaves, 27 sheaves of barley, 14 sheaves of beans, 100 sheaves of oats and about 1 barrel of potatoes. And by William SCULLY and assistants - 80 sheaves of oats. All worth about 1:7:9."

Thomas PIGOTT Senior died in 1702 (this year-only date was recorded in both Appellants' and Defendant's cases in the House of Lords litigation over Kilcromin, 1723-24); this was his last mention. One might be inclined to speculate that the tithes were taken after the harvest, and if so, in late summer or early autumn, about August-September or perhaps into October? Thomas was succeeded as Impropriator of the parish of Dysart by his eldest son and heir, Robert PIGOTT, who had only just returned to Ireland from London, shortly before his father's death, with his newly wedded wife, Judith BURGOYNE.

1703:
"Jacob THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by Thomas PIGOTT and his assistant, Tithetaker under Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, for two thirds, and Andrew NESBITT, Priest of the Parish of Dysart and Kilteale for one third - 5 carloads of hay, 118 sheaves of bere, 63 sheaves of barley, six sheaves of pease, 2 carloads of oats, 1 carload of wheat. And by Daniel GORMELL, Tithemonger for small tithes under Andrew NESBIT aforesaid, 1 goose. All worth £1:8:6."

Thomas PIGOTT is not formally identified; he was probably another and younger son of the late Thomas PIGOTT Senior, unless instead a cousin (Thomas PIGOTT of Rahineduff died in or before 1719, leaving a son Thomas Junior, who died in 1729) - see also 1706 below.

1704:
"Jacob TOMPSON had taken from him for Tithe, by Thady FITZPATRICK and Derby CAREY, Tithe-takers, John FITZPATRICK, Teige MULOGHER and James QUIN, Tithe-mongers under Andrew NESBIT, Priest of the parish of Kilteale, and Alexander PIGOTT, Tithe-maker under Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, two-thirds - of three Carr loads of hay worth 4s 6d..."
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for Tithe, by Alexander PIGOTT, Tithe-taker under Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, of two thirds, and by Peter REED, servant to Andrew NESBIT, Priest of the Parishes of Kilteel and Disart, for one third, and their assistants - 62 lambs, and 180 Fleeces of wool (halfe of the sheep the said wool was taken for grazed in the parish of Aghaboe and Diocese of Ossory, which they had no ... for), all worth £13 4s 6d. More was taken from him by the said Alexander PIGOTT and his assistants - most part of a stack of wheat containing about 550 sheaves which they took away besides one stook and a half of bere being about 1,000 sheaves, three stooks and a half of oats being about 2,840 sheaves, part of a stook of barley about 480 sheaves, 80 sheaves of Pease and 36 stooks of Hay worth together £13 8s. All worth £27:2:6."

1706:
"Henry RIDGWAY, for £4:9:4 demanded towards repair of ye parish worship house of Dysart, Warden's wages, etc, had taken from him by ye servants of John PIGOTT and Bowen BRERETON called Wardens -  3 large bullocks worth £7:4:6."
"Henry RIDGWAY had more taken from him for tithe by William CONRAN and assistants, Tithetakers under Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, of two thirds, and Andrew NESBITT, priest of ye parish of Disart and Kilteale for one third - 49 lambs and 123 fleeces of wool, worth £12:18:0. More taken from him by William NISBETT, (son to the said priest NESBITT) and his assistants, Tithetaker from Thomas PIGOTT, Tithemonger under ye said Robert PIGOTT - 10 carloads of hay, 1 whole stook and 2 carloads of wheat, 2 stooks and 3 carload of oats, 1 stook of barley, 3 stooks of bere, and half a carload of beans. All worth £20:14:0."

1707:
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by Thomas NESBIT, son to Andrew NESBIT, Priest of ye parish of Disart and Kilteale, for one third, and Samuel BOOKER, Tithe-monger under Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, of two thirds, and their assistants - 56 lambs and 120 fleeces of wool..."

1708:
"Jacob THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by John FITZPATRICK and Martin DUEGEN, Tithetakers under John FITZPATRICK, Tithemonger under the said Robert PIGOTT and Andrew NESBITT - 5 carloads of hay, 115 sheaves of bere, 21 sheaves of beans, 12 sheaves of barley, and about 5 bushels of potatoes, worth in all £1:16:3, and taken by the servants of the said Robert PIGOTT - 15 Kishes (?) of turfe work, 1s 3d, in all £1:17:6."

1709:
"Jacob THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by Darby DUFFY and Daniel MURPHY, Tithetakers  under Andrew NESBITT, Priest of the parish of Disart and Killteele, for one third, and Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, for two thirds - 5 carloads of hay, 242 sheaves of bere, 4 carloads of oats and barley, 45 sheaves of wheat, 12 sheaves of beans and about 2 barrels and a half of potatoes, all worth £2:3:0."
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by William CONRAN and several others his assistants - 10 fleeces of wool and 41 lambs, worth £8:3:6. For the use of Andrew NESBITT, priest of the parish of Killteele and Disart, and Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator. More taken by Andrew NESBITT, son to the said priest NESBITT, and Thady BOYLAN and assistants - 15 carloads of bere, 6 carloads of barley, 7 carloads of wheat, 10 carloads of oats, and 10 carloads of hay, worth £11:0:0."

1710:
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by the servants of the said priest and to his and the aforesaid Impropriator's use in the parish of Rosenallis - 4 carloads of hay waste. And more taken from him for tithe by William CONRAN, Teige COSTILAGH, and (...) Tithegatherers under Andrew NESBITT, priest of the parish of Disart and Kilteele for one third, and Robert PIGOTT, impropriator, for two thirds - 103 fleeces of wool and 44 lambs, worth £8:0:0. More taken by the same hands - 18 carloads of hay, 16 carloads of bere, 3 loads of beans, 16 carloads of wheat, 9 carloads of oats, 5 carloads of barley and 5 carloads of pease, worth £9:7:0. All worth £18:4:0."

1711:
"Henry RIDGWAY... More taken from him for tithe by Andrew NESBITT, son to Andrew NESBITT, priest of the parish of Disart and Kilteal, and his assistants - 103 fleeces of wool, 31 lambs, and to his use and to Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, and by John HIGGINS, Edmond FLANAGAN and assistants, servants to said Impropriator - 11 carloads of hay, 13 carloads of bere, 9 carloads of wheat, 5 carloads of barley. And by Daniel CONRAN and assistants, tithetakers under the said Impropriator - 5 carloads of wheat, 1 carload of oats..."

On 20 December 1712, Rev Andrew NESBITT died, and in his place, Rev John PIGOTT was instituted Vicar of Dysart-enos and Kilteale [LESLIE, page 209], on presentation by the Patron, his second cousin Robert PIGOTT, the Impropriator. John was born in Chetwynd, County Cork in 1686, second son of Thomas PIGOTT of Innishannon, County Cork, by his wife Mary MOORE; he was admitted to Trinity College, Dublin, on 30 June 1701, and graduated B.A. in 1705, and M.A. in 1708; he was later of Loughrea, County Galway. His older brother Emanuel PIGOTT purchased Dysart in 1725 (see below).

1713:
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by John HIGGINS [space] and their assistants, Tithegatherers under John PIGOTT, priest of the parish of Disart and Kilteale, for one third, and Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, for 2 thirds - 88 lambs and 118 fleeces of wool, worth 16:15:9, and 10 carloads of bere, 8 carloads of wheat, 54 stooks of barley and 70 stooks of oats worth £18:8:0..."
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"Jacob THOMPSON had taken from him for tithes by Daniel MURPHY and assistants, Tithetakers under henry FITZGERALD, Tithemonger under the aforesaid John PIGOTT, Priest and Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator - 170 sheaves of bere, 172 sheaves of oats, 16 sheaves of bere and pease, all worth £1:8:0."

1720:
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by John HIGGINS and John PHELAN an assistants, Tithetakers under William DAWSON, Priest and Tithemonger under John PIGOTT, Priest of the Parish of Disart and Kiltaile, for one third, and under Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, of the other two thirds - 35 lambs and 80 fleeces of wool, worth 2;15:6. And by John and James HIGGINS and Lawrence BRINNAN, Tithetakers under said Priest DAWSON, Tithmonger as aforesaid - 6 carloads of wheat, 11 carloads of bere and barley, 14 carloads of oats, 18 carloads of hay, some pease and beans, worth 8:0:0. All worth 20:15:0."

1723:
"Henry RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by John HIGGINS and assistants, servants to Robert PIGOTT, Impropriator, for two thirds, and by tithetakers under John PIGOTT, Priest of the Parish of Disart and Killtail, for one third, - 30 lambs and 70 fleeces of wool, worth £7:18:0. And by said HIGGINS and assistants - 9 carload of bere, 6 carloads of barley, 3 carloads of wheat, 4 carloads of hay, 2 small carloads of pease, worth £9:9:6. All worth £17:4:6.
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by the said John HIGGINS and assistants, servants as before - 40 fleeces of wool, worth £3:10:0.
"Daniel HUSTON had taken from him for tithe, by Richard TOWNSEND and Keeran MacCARY, Servants to the aforesaid Robert PIGOTT - 10 carloads of bere, 7 carloads of oats, about half a carload of wheat, 1 carload of barley, worth 6:5:6. And by Thomas PRIDE and Cormack FENELLY, Tithetakers under said Robert PIGOTT - about 3 barrels and a half of potatoes, worth 9s. All worth £6:14:0."

At these rates, a fleece of wool is assessed as being worth 1 shilling and 9 pence; and a lamb therefore worth 1 shilling and 6 pence.

1728:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by Michael BROWN and Bryan DEMPSEY and their assistance (sic), Tithetakers under Robert PIGOTT, Tithetaker under John PIGOTT, Priest of ye parish of Dysart and Kilteale for one third, and Impropriator of ye other two thirds - 106 fleeces of wool and 33 lambs, worth £11:3:9. And by ye said Michael BROWN and his assistance, servants to Pigott SANDS, Tithetaker under ye said Robert PIGOTT - 33 car load of bere, 5 car load of oats and 2 car load of barley, worth £13:19:0. And by Walter PIGOTT and his assistance, Tithetaker under said Pigott SANDS - 25 car loads of hay and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £3:10:0. And by James KELLY and James KINNYGON under ye said Robert PIGOTT - 480 stooks of oats and 6 car load of wheat, worth £3:14:0. All worth £32:6:9."

Walter PIGOTT was undoubtedly another younger son of Thomas PIGOTT and Elizabeth WELDON, and so a younger brother of Robert the Impropriator; he was probably otherwise known as "Old Major" PIGOTT of Antigua. See also 1731, 1732, 1733, 1734 and 1735 below. Pigott SANDES was yet another cousin, being a son of Lancelot SANDES (see 1698 above) and Elizabeth PIGOTT (she was Robert's sister).

1730:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by William CONRAN and his assistants, servants to Emanuel PIGOTT, Tithemonger under John PIGOTT, Priest of ye parish of Kilteale for one third, the said Emanuel PIGOTT being impropriator of ye other two thirds - 32 lambs and 84 fleeces of wool worth £12:0:0. And by Walter PIGOTT and his assistants, Tithe-taker under said Emanuel PIGOTT - 30 carloads of bere, 3 carloads of wheat, 270 stooks of oats, 32 carloads of hay and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £10:12:0. All worth £22:12:0.
"Daniel HUSON had taken from him for tithe, by Lawrence BRENNAN and his assistants, Tithetaker under said Emanuel PIGOTT - 126 stooks of oats, 6 carload of bere, 4 carload of hay, all worth £2:6:0.
"Jacob THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by John HIGGINS and his assistants, Tithetaker under said Emanuel PIGOTT - 8 carloads of hay, 23 carloads of bere, 10 carloads of oats, and 3 ridges of potatoes, worth £5:11:0. And by Thomas PIGOTT and his assistants, Tithe-taker under said Emanuel PIGOTT - 1 carload of bere, 8 carloads of wheat, 6 carloads of bere, 2 carloads of oats, 4 carloads of pease and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £2:10:0. All worth £8:1:0.
"John POORE had taken from him for tithe, by said Thomas PIGOTT and his assistants, Tithetaker - 6 carloads of hay, 7 carloads of bere, 4 carloads of wheat, 2 carloads of oats and 1 carload of pease, worth 1:18:0. And by Patrick DARCY and his assistants, Tithe-taker under said Emanuel PIGOTT - 15 carloads of bere, 4 carloads of barley, 6 carloads of oats and 5 ridges of potatoes, worth 2:15:0. All worth 4:13:0."

Emanuel PIGOTT of Chetwynd, County Cork, was born in 1684, the eldest son of Thomas PIGOTT of Innishannon, by his wife Mary MOORE, and so the elder brother of Rev John PIGOTT; he had purchased the Manor of Dysart in 1725, and would assume full Impropriator status after his second cousin Robert's death in May 1730 (Robert sold Dysart on condition he continue to live there until his death, which arrangement evidently preserved his status as Impropriator within the parish). Thomas PIGOTT is not formally identified; he was perhaps the eldest son of the late John PIGOTT of Kilcromin and Antigua, otherwise known as the litigating nephew of Robert, whose successful appeal to the House of Lords over the ownership of Kilcromin led Robert to sell the Dysart estate to Emanuel - or another?

1731:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by Robert MADDOCKS and Keran McNARY and their assistance, servants to Jonathan and Joseph BALDWIN, Tithetakers under Emmanuel PIGOTT, Tithemonger under John PIGOTT, Priest of ye Parish of Disart and Kilteale, for one third, and the said Emmanuel PIGOTT being Impropriator of the other two thirds - 77 fleeces of wool and 38 lambs worth £13:10:0. And by Walter PIGOTT, Tithetaker under said BALDWIN - 20 carloads of bere, 5 carloads of oats, 3 carloads of wheat and 28 carloads of hay, worth £7:0:0. All worth £20:10:0."

1732:
"John POWER had taken from him for tithe, by Daniel FENNELLY and his assistance, Tithetaker under J. BALDWIN - 3 carloads of hay, 15 carloads of oats, 2 carloads of bere, 2 carloads of barley and 3 and a half ridges of potatoes, worth £4:13:0. And by Walter PIGOTT and his assistance - 5 carloads of bere, worth 12:0..."

1733:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by William HIGENS and Thomas MADDOCKS, Servants to Joseph BALDWIN, Tithemonger under Emanuel PIGOTT, Tithemonger under John PIGOTT, Priest of ye parish of Kilteal and Dysart, for one third, the said Emanuel PIGOTT being Impropriator for the other two thirds - 68 fleeces of wool and 26 lambs, worth £11:00:00. And by Walter PIGOTT, Tithetaker under said BALDWIN - 10 carloads of bere, 15 carloads of oats, 6 carloads of barley, 26 carloads of hay, and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £11:10:0. All worth £22:10:0.
"John POORE had taken from him for tithe, by said Walter PIGOTT and FITCHPATRICK and assistance - 13 carloads of bere, 15 carloads of oats, 2 carloads of pease, 1 carload of barley, 2 carloads of hay and 4 ridges of potatoes. All worth £7:11:0." 

1734:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe by Thomas MADDOCKS and his assistance, servants to Joseph BALDWIN, Tithemonger under Emanuel PIGOTT, Tithemonger under John PIGOTT, Priest of the parish of Disart and Kilteel for one third part, Emanuel PIGOTT being Impropriator of ye other two thirds - 74 fleeces of wool, 28 lambs, worth £9:10:0. And by Walter PIGOTT and his assistance, Tithetaker under J. BALDWIN - 34 carloads of hay, 11 carloads of bere, 2 carloads of barley, and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £6:11:0...
"John POORE had taken from him for tithe by P. FITZPATRICK, DUNN and LAWLER and their assistance - 21 carloads of bere, 7 carloads of wheat and 2 carloads of hay, worth £3:12:0. And by ye aforedsaid Walter PIGOTT and his assistance, Tithetaker under J. BALDWIN - 3 carloads of hay, 10 carloads of oats, 2 carloads of pease, and 5 ridges of potatoes, worth £2:13:0. All worth£ 7:15:0

Rev John PIGOTT of Loughrea died in 1734, and was buried at St Michan's Church, Dublin, 31 July 1734. On 27 September 1734, Henry WRIGHT was presented as Vicar of Dysart-Enos and Kilteale by Emanuel PIGOTT, and was instituted on 20 November (D.R.); son of William WRIGHT, Currier of Dublin, admitted T.C.D. 10 June 1707, B.A. 1711, M.A. 1714 [LESLIE]; he died on 17 Feb 1749 (LODGE's Obits). It appears that Rev Henry WRIGHT may have married Rev John's widow Deborah PIGOTT (formerly FRENCH).

1735:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by Thomas MADDOCKS and his assistants, Servants to Joseph BALDWIN, Tithemonger under Emanuel PIGOTT, Tithe-monger under John PIGOTT, Priest of the parish of Dysart and Kilteale for 1/3rd part, ye said Emanuel PIGOTT being Impropriator for ye other 2/3 parts - 8 carloads of bere, 2 carloads of wheat, 80 fleeces of wool and 32 lambs, worth £10:11:0. And by Walter PIGOTT and his assistants, Tithetaker under said BALDWIN - 25 carloads of hay, 17 carloads of bere, 7 carloads of wheat, 22 carloads of Oats, 8 carloads of pease, and 2 and a half ridges of potatoes, worth £10:17:0. All worth £21:8:0."

1737:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by Cormack FENNELLY and his assistants, servants to Jos. BALDWIN, Tithetaker under Henry WRIGHT, Priest of the parish of Dysart and Kilteale for one third, and under Emanuel PIGOTT, Impropriator, of the other two thirds - 73 fleeces of wool and 18 lambs worth £7:15:0."

1742:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by George FENNELLY and Cormack FENNELLY, servants to Joseph BALDWIN, Tithemonger under William PIGOTT, Priest of the parish of Dysart and Kilteale for one third, and under Emmanuel PIGOTT Impropriator, for the other two thirds - 19 fleeces of wool, 43 lambs, 7 carloads of bere, 6 carloads of barley, 10 carloads of wheat, 4 carloads of oats, 4 carloads of grey pease, and 22 carloads of hay, worth £17:15:0..."

Rev William PIGOTT was born in 1716, son of Rev John PIGOTT of Loughrea, County Galway, by his wife Deborah FRENCH; admitted T.C.D., 29 June 1732, B.A. 1736, M.A. 1739; he was recorded [LESLIE, page 210] as having been instituted as Rector of Dysart-enos on 27 February 1749 (which is 7 years after this entry), and is said [by LESLIE] to have resigned in 1772 in favour of his son Edward (he is nowhere mentioned in these Quaker records). Rev William PIGOTT was the Archdeacon of Clonfert; he died in 1790.

1745:
"John RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by George FENELLY and his assistants, Servant to William MILES, Tithetaker under William PIGOTT, Priest of the Parishes of Dysart and Killteele, for one third, and to Joseph BALDWIN, Tithemonger under Emanuel PIGOTT, Impropriator, for the other two thirds - 28 carloads of bere, 16 carloads of barley, 15 carloads of oats, 16 carloads of wheat, 24 carloads of hay, 4 carloads of pease, 21 lambs and 73 fleeces of wool, worth £39:3:0.
"Michael BRUMSKILL had taken from him for tithe, by Michael CAHUL and Robert McDaniel, Tithetakers under said PIGOTT and BALDWIN - 8 carloads of oats 6 carloads of bere, 2 carloads of pease, 3 carloads of oats, 7 carloads of hay, 3 ridges of potatoes, 3 lambs and 8 fleeces of wool, worth £9:4:0.
"John THOMPSON (near Ballycarrol) had taken from him for tithe, by Patrick LAWLER and James MOLOY, Tithetakers under said PIGOTT and BALDWIN - 1 carload of bere, 10 carloads of wheat, 6 carloads of pease, 4 carloads of hay, 4 ridges of potatoes, 2 lambs and 5 fleeces of wool, worth £8:0:0."

In October 1745, Joseph and Jonathan BALDWIN's names appeared in a list of "Loyal Gentlemen of the Queen's County" published in the Dublin Journal [12 October] - being an affirmation of support for King George in his dealings with the rebellious Scottish Highlanders, which culminated in the great Battle on Drumossie Moor, known by the Scots as the "Forty-five," and better known to us all by the cottage which stood on that bleak spot near Inverness, named Culloden. The list of 84 names was subscribed on 10 October, at a general Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the County. Other names on the list of  "Loyal Gentlemen" included Thos PIGOTT and Thomas PIGOTT, probable grandsons of Thomas PIGOTT of Dysart (the earlier Impropriator, who died in 1702).

1749:
"Sarah RIDGWAY, Widow, had taken from her for tithe, by Francis HARVEY and Edward DOWDY, Tithetakers under William PIGOTT, Priest of the parish of Disart and Killteale, for one third, and by Joseph BALDWIN and assistants, Tithetaker under Emanuel PIGOTT, Impropriator, for the other two thirds - 30 carloads of hay, 12 carloads of wheat, 12 carloads of bere, 12 carloads of oats, 12 carloads of barley, 1 carload of pease, 40 fleeces of wool and 18 lambs, worth £24:2:0.
"Michael BRUMSKILL had taken from him for tithe, by John HIGGINS and assistants, Tithetaker under the said PIGOTT and BALDWIN - 6 carloads of bere, 4 carloads of wheat, 4 carloads of oats, 6 carloads of hay, and 2 ridges of potatoes, worth £7:4:0.
"John THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by said BALDWIN and Priest PIGOTT and their assistants - 6 carloads of hay, 10 carloads of wheat, 7 carloads of bere, 6 carloads of pease, 2 carloads of oats, 3 ridges of potatoes, 3 fleeces of wool and 2 lambs, worth £7:19:0."

On 15 June 1751, Emanuel PIGOTT made an Indented Deed of Lease (Memorial No 103507, Registry of Deeds, Dublin), for the Manor of Dysart, etc, including the Rectorial and Impropriate Tythes of Dysart, to Joseph BALDWIN of Dysart, for the term of lives of his three sons - John, Jonathan and Joseph BALDWIN. It is said that when the lease on Dysart expired, the BALDWINs moved to Derry Farm, on the same estate, then held by Lord CAREW (Robert Shapland CAREW, Junior, 1787-1838, the son of Robert Shapland CAREW, Senior, and his wife Anne PIGOTT, a daughter of Rev Richard PIGOTT of Cork, a younger son of Emanuel PIGOTT by his third wife Judith WARBURTON).

1754:
"Joshua RIDGWAY had taken from him for tithe, by James DUNN and Edward WARREN, Servants to Joseph BALDWIN, Tithetaker under William PIGOTT, Priest of the Parish of Disert and Kilteale, for one third, and under Emanuel PIGOTT, Impropriator, for two thirds - 1200 sheaves of barley, 900 sheaves of oats, 450 sheaves of wheat, 60 carloads of hay, 37 fleeces of wool and 2 lambs, worth 20:5:4."

In the 1760 Voters List for Maryborough was recorded "... John BALDWIN, of Disert, under Mr GILBERT's influence." [See "A Hand-list of Voters of Maryborough, 1760," by H.F. KEARNEY, Irish Historical Studies (joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies), Volume IX, No. 33, March 1954, pages 53-82]. Also listed there were the following, perhaps related: "John BALDWIN, Larrigan, (under the influence of) Lord Mt Rath and a particular friend of Mr GILBERT. Robert BALDWIN, Coolkerry, (under the influence of) Mr DAWSON chiefly. Robert BALDWIN, Doon, under the influence of his brother Thomas BALDWIN."

1763:
"John THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by Patrick LALOR and John FITZPATRICK, servants to John BALDWIN, Tithetaker under William PIGOTT, Priest of the parish of Dysart for one third, and under the Representatives of Immanuel PIGOTT, Impropriator for the other two thirds - 6 carload of hay, 10 carloads of wheat, 1 carload of bere, 4 carloads of oats, 2 ridges of potatoes, 3 fleeces of wool and 2 lambs, worth £6:5:0."

Emanuel PIGOTT died at Chetwynd, County Cork, on 30 June 1762. By his first wife Lucy ROGERS, he had an eldest son George PIGOTT (see next) who succeeded him.

1764:
"John BRUMSKILL had taken from him for tithe, by Edward DUNN and Edward DELANY, Tithe-takers under William PIGOTT, Priest of the parish of Disert for one third, and George BALDWIN, Tithetaker under George PIGOTT, Impropriator, for two thirds - 9 fleeces of wool, 3 lambs, 48 tale of wheat, 72 tale of bere, 60 tale of oats, 9 carloads of hay and 3 ridges of potatoes, worth £8:2:0."

In 1764, Helen PIGOTT died intestate, with Administration granted on 16 October to her husband; she was the wife of Thomas PIGOTT of Queen's County (born about 1725, son of Thomas PIGOTT, the eldest and litigant nephew of Robert PIGOTT, the former Impropriator, by his wife Mary WHEELER); it is stated that Helen was born a BALDWIN, and probably from Derry, Dysart or Summerhill, all in Queen's County [Notes and Queries, 10 Series, Volume ii, page 176 - in an article by William Jackson PIGOTT, a first cousin of my great-grandfather].

1770:
"John THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by John BALDWIN and assistants, Tithetaker under William PIGOTT, Priest of the parish of Dysart for one third part, and George PIGOTT, Impropriator for the other two thirds - 6 carloads of wheat, 4 carloads of oats and 6 carloads of hay, worth £4:6:0."

On 30 June 1772, LESLIE [page 210] records that Edward PIGOTT was presented to the Rectory of Dysart-Enos by Richard PIGOTT, D.D., of the City of Cork, "... vice William PIGOTT, resigned"; and was instituted on 4 Sep (D.R. and F.F.); he died in 1797. But his name is nowhere to be found in these Quaker records. George PIGOTT died a few days before 5 January 1773, aged about 63, and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas, the future Baronet of Knapton (see next).

1778:
"Joseph THOMPSON had taken from him for tithe, by John BALDWIN and assistants, Tithetaker under William PIGOTT, Priest of the parish of Dysart for one third part and Thomas PIGOTT, Impropriator for two thirds - 5 carloads of hay, 2 carloads of barley, 9 carloads of bere, 5 carloads of oats, 3 fleeces of wool and 2 lambs, worth £6:11:11."

1779:
"Edward BUTLER had taken from him... priest of Maryborough...
"And by Richard ---, servant to John BALDWIN and assistants, tithe-monger under William PIGOTT, priest of Kiltale [Kilteale], seven carloads of wheat, nine carloads of oats, and four carloads of hay, all worth £5:10;0."

1815:
"John MILBURN, for a demand of £5:7:8, had taken... one heiffer worth £8:0:0...
"And had taken, under Thomas PIGOTT, priest of the parish of Rosenallis, for a demand of £1:18:0, one cow worth £4:0:0.
Warrants signed Richard CROASDAILE and John BALDWIN.

There are no further PIGOTT mentions after this last one dated 1815.

Of possible passing interest, a Rev John BALDWIN Senior was appointed Curate of Rosenallis parish in 1780, as successor to Rev Peter WESTENRA (he had been curate since 1766, and had married, as her second husband, Elizabeth PIGOTT, the widow of Thomas BERNARD - she is believed to have been the daughter of Thomas PIGOTT, of Queen's County, and Mary WHEELER - see 1764 above).

Further, there was a William Dowdall PIGOTT, who is said to have been born at Dysart on 29 September 1790; his parentage is uncertain, but after a stop-start career as a Clerk in the Ordnance Department of the Army, in Ireland and in Malta, he retired to Ontario, in Canada; he named his second son Edward David Baldwin PIGOTT - so it is just possible that William's mother may have been a BALDWIN; further, he had named his first-born son Edward, and he died shortly before the second Edward was born, suggesting a possibility that William's father was named Edward - perhaps the son of Rev William PIGOTT, Archdeacon of Clonfert, the Priest of Dysart (as listed above), who was said to have resigned the Vicarage of Disert in 1772, in favour of this son, Rev Edward PIGOTT (although this is not supported in the above record).