| Description | Jeremiah Lagden was the son of Robert, tenant of the White Hart Inn at Bourn Bridge, Abington. Smuggled tea hidden there may be responsible for Jeremiah’s reputation as a highwayman, but he was also a considerable Little Abington land-owner. At inclosure 94 acres was allotted for 'Lagden's land'. He lived at The Old House, just north of the river in Little Abington and was buried in a vault in the garden in 1804, aged 97 (VCH, Vol. VI, pp. 4, 8-9; Little Abington parish registers). The Jeremiah appearing in these records is Jeremiah Charles, his grandson (baptized 1 April 1793 in Little Abington), who by 1822 had moved to Tonbridge, Kent.
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