| Description | D/EE/10/1-12 Game of Pembrokeshire papers
D/EE/10/13-44 Papers of J. W. Phillips senior relating to the Springfield Estate
D/EE/10/45-63 Other papers of J. W. Phillips senior and J. W. Phillips junior
Aaron Game seems to have been a tradesman of Pembroke town who made good. By the end of his life he was described as "gentleman". Nowhere in the surviving papers is it made clear what he formerly did for a living but he appears in the Quarter Sessions rolls for 1783, taking out a licence to keep an aleshouse. He lived in a house in Pembroke as a tenant of the Reverend Owen Jones of Newhaven, Sussex in 1782. In later deeds he is variously described at being of Monkton and of Whitehall in the parish of St Mary's. When he died on 08th September 1825 his unmarried daughter Jane was his executrix and main beneficiary. He did leave a leasehold farm called Kingswood near Pembroke to his "friend and son in law" Thomas Phillips of the Bridge End in the parish of Prendergast, a surveyor of taxes. It may be that Thomas had married another of Aaron's daughters though she is nowhere mentioned by name. (Margaret Game married Thomas Phillip, survyor of taxes at Haverfordwest, on 31/10/1810 see Francis Green papers Vol 15 p. 558 MF187). Many of the other papers in this collection evidently belonged to John William Phillips, a solicitor who practiced at Tower Hill, Haverfordwest and to his son, also called John William Phillips and also a solicitor. It is possible that John William the elder was the son of Thomas Phillips and therefore Aaron Game's grandson. He certainly acted as the solicitor of Jane Game. Jane herself died, still unmarried, on 8th December 1836 and her executrix was her sister Mary about whom the papers tell us nothing more. |