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The Will of Hosea Nicholls, dated 26 January 1746
In the Name of God Amen The Twenty Sixth day of January in
the year of our Lord 1746. I Hosea Nicholls of Ludgvan in the County of Cornwall
yeoman being Sick and beak of Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be
given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and knowing
that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my last
Will and Testament: That is to say principally and first of all I given and
Recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it: and for my Body I
Recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian like and decent Manner at
the discretion of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection
I shall Receive the Same again by the Might power of God and as touching Such
World Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I Give,
Devise and Dispose of the Same in the following manner and form.
Imprimis I Give and Bequeath unto An John and Lovdee John the Little house
called by the name of Stevens house and the orchard in the midest of the Town in
Velnoweth during the Term of the Lives now thereon.
Item I Give to each of them Ten Pounds to be paid them by my Executors when
Lovdee is one and Twenty years of age, and if either of them Shall happen to dye
before their money and dowry is dew the other Shall receive the whole: I
Likewise Give unto them all my Household Goods; Excepting only the largest Brass
pan, Brass Crock and Pisstle and morter; Lovdee to have such puter as her name
is in and Anne to have as much of the rest as to make it equal.
Item I order and make Margry John my Sister and William John her Son my Sole and
full Executors of this my last Will and Testament of all my Lands Messages and
tenements by them freely to be possessed and enjoyed and likewise all my Stock
and Goods Bills Bonds and all other Writings whatsoever yielding and paying all
dews debts and demands and I do hear by utterly disallow revoke and dissannul
all and every other formter Testements Wills and Legacies bequests and Executors
by me in any ways before this time named: I do likewais make and Impower Matthew
Wollcock & William Simens to be Trustees and Guardyens over my Executors
Impowering them to Set, let and do all other reasonably things for the
preferment of my Exectors ratifying and Contifmring this and no other to be my
last Will and Testament in Witness where of I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal
the day and year above writen.
Hosea Nicholls
Signed, Sealed,
Published pronounced
And declared by the said Hosea Nicholls as
His Last Will and Testament in the presents
Of us the Subscribers.
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Matthew Wollcock |
William Semens |
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The before written Will is a true Copy of
the Will of the
Above named Hosea Nicholls Examined and Compared
With the Original this 16th Day of March 1747 by us |
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John Bennetts
John Blight |
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The before written Will of the beforenamed
Hosea Nicholls was
Proved in common form the 10th March 1747 Before the Reverend
Mr. Jonathon Baron Clk Mr. of Arts Surrogate etc and Admion
of the Goods etc. of the said _____ (with the Said Will ______
Was Granted to Mathew Woolcock & William Semens the Testory
Guardians and Trustees during the Minority of William John the Surviving
Exect. Named in the Said Will (being first sworne. Etc.) Saveing etc.)
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No Inventory Exhibited.
N.B. Words in italics within brackets
are inserted by the transcriber e.g. (signed)
Source: LDS film No. 90193
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