1701    6th November. Digory Slade instituted as Rector of Holsworthy. Buried in Holsworthy 24th October 1711.
1704    Law suit over the ownership of Upcott and Thorne, this lasted twelve years.
1705    Rev Michael Taylor died at Holsworthy. He had been turned out of his living by the Act of Uniformity.
1706    Bell ringers paid 5s.0d. for ringing for the victory of Duke of Malborough at the battle of Ramillies.
1707    Church clock changed at a cost of £5. 15s.0d., a man called Hammott was paid 8d. for a days work.
1713    Thomas Orchard instituted Rector of Holsworthy.
1713    Arscott Bickford born.
1714    Phillip, 2nd Earl Stanhope, born.
1716    5th March. Stephen and John Coham bought Thorne.
1717    3rd May. Thorne sold to John Ebbott, by the Coham family.
1718    1718–1735. Thomas Cory was Parish Clerk.
1720    William Bickford was High Sheriff of Devon.
1720    John Manly and William Haviland sold Ratherton to Richard Allen.
1721    Thomas Bowhay Churchwarden.
1722    Churchwardens paid John Gimlett 5s.0d. for keeping out dogs from the church.
1723    Church organ bought by Bideford Corporation and given to their Parish Church.
1725    John Prideaux sold Manor to Thomas Pitt (1st.) Lord Londonderry.
1725    Prideaux family left Soldon.
1727    Five tuneable bells in church tower.
1735    George Bickford born. He died In 1795.
1739    The beginning of Methodism, founded by John and Charles Wesley.
1740    William Blckford died.
1749    23rd January. Thomas Stringer Norton instituted as Rector of Holsworthy.
1753    Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope, born.
1761    The first canal, the Bridgewater canal, opened.
1765    Donn's map of Devon showing the windmill at Knapps Hill Farm.
1765    Holsworthy first pronounced HOLSERY.
1766    Owen Lewis Meyrick instituted as rector of Holsworthy. He stayed for 53 years and is buried in Holsworthy. He died 3rd May 1781.
1767    Mary Bickford born.
1768    Capt. Cook made his first voyage to Australia.
1769    John Gregory Parish Clerk.
1770    William Crabb Parish Clerk.
1771    Arscott Bickford (2nd) died.
1773    Arscott Bickford (3rd) born (nephew of Arscott Blckford 2nd.)
1773    Boston Tea Party.
1774    Ratherton settled on James Harvey.
1774    John Yeo Parish Clerk.
1775    1775–1818. Richard Hoskin Parish Clerk.
1776    First threshing machine invented by Mr Ilderton of Ainwick, Northumberland.
1776    American Declaration of Independance.
1778    Roger Kingdon gave Paten for church plate.
1780    January 21st. John Daniel of Thorne died.
1781    Phillip Henry, 4th Earl Stanhope, born.
1784    The first Mail Coach ran.
1785    Holsworthy’s contribution to the County Rate was £4.2s.10d.
1785    Admiral Benedictus Marwood Kelly born. Lived at Wadlands Hotel, Fore Street, his father had a bank in Chapel Street.
1786    Phillip, 2nd Earl Stanhope, died.
1789    Windmill mentioned again.
1789    French Revolution began.
1791    First record of the White Hart Inn.
1792    Rev. William Bickford Coham born.
1797    Derriton Mill and Roydon Mill bridges recorded as being stone built.
1798    Income Tax first imposed.

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