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The Will of William Trevorian, dated 28 April 1741
In the Name of God Amen. I William Trevorian of the Parish
of Ludgvan in the County of Cornwall Yeoman being Sick and weak in Body but of
sound & Perfect Mind & Memorin For all which I Give God thanks & Considering the
Frailty and Uncertainty of this life do hereby make my last will & Testam’t in
Manner following ______ comend my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator
hopeing thro his Tender Mercy & the Meritt & the Moderation of Jesus Christ my
saviour to be Eternally saved and have Pardon and foregiveness of all my sins
and my body I comitt to Christian Burial in such Manner as my Executor &
Executrix in Trust hereinafter named shall think fitt
Item My Will & Meaning is that all my just debts and Funeral Expences be first
fully paid and Satisfied out of such Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattells as
I shall ____ Seized and Possessed of before any Legacy - hereinafter bequeathed
shall take place
Item I give devise and bequeath unto my dearly beloved Four Daughters Mary
Trevorian Dorcas Trevorian Joan Trevorian and Elizabeth Trevorian the
Inheritance in Fee of and in all and Singular my Messuages Lands Tenements and
premisses Together with all Paths ways waters watercourses Easments Profitts
Commodityes Emolum’ts Heredia’s & Appurtes whatever thereunto belonging Situate
lyeing and being in the Village Fields & Hamlets of Colorian within the said
Parish of Ludgvan and the Reverison and Reversions Remainder and Remainders
Rents Suites & Services thereof and of every Part and Parcell thereat To hold to
my said four Daughters from & Imediately after the Deaths of my self and
Margaret my wife and to their Heirs Absolutely forever to be equally divided
amongst them share and share alike.
Item I Give devise and Bequeathalso unto my said Four Daughters the Inheritance
in Fee of and in all that one Messuage Close or Field of Land Situate Lyeing &
being in the Towne of Marazion in the said County of Cornwall called by the Name
of Whealawowns which I lately Purchased of and from my Brother in Law William
Oliver of the Town of Falmouth in ______ County Marriner Togeather with all
paths ways waters water courses Easements Profitts Commodityes Emoluments
Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging and the Reversion
and Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents Suites and Services thereof and of
every Part and Parcell thereof To hold also to my said Four Daughters from and
Imediately after my Death and to their Heirs Absolutely forever to be also
Equally Divided amongst them share and share alike
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my said Four Daughters all my Chattell Estates
which I now have of and in Colorian aforesaid and also of and in the Village of
Truthall Situate lyeing and being within the said Parish of Ludgvan To hold to
them their E______ Adm’ds and Assigns from and Imediately after my death for and
during all the Remainder of the Severall and Respective Terms and Numbers of
Years which shall be therein then to come and Determine by Vertue of the Orignal
Leases ____ of or either of them respectively to be likewise divided amonst them
share and share alike
Item All the rest residue and remainder of my Goods and Chattells Rights Credits
and Effects whatsoever and whosesoever I shall dye Seized or Possessed of ____
herein before given devised or bequeathed I do hereby likewise give devise and
Bequeath unto my said Four Dau’rs To hold to them their Heirs E______ Adm’ds and
Assigns from and Imediately after my death absolutely forever to be likewise
Equally divided amongst them share & share alike
Item my will & meaning is that in case any of my sd Children shall happen to dye
before they shall respectively attain the Age of Twenty One Years or be Married
which shall first happen That then the part or Parts (so Given as aforesaid) of
such of them so dyeing shall fall amongst the Survivors and Survivor of them as
shall then beliveing equally to be divided amongst them share and share alike
Lastly I do hereby make Ordain Consitute and Appoint my said dearly Beloved wife
Margaret and my Brother Nicholas Trevorian of the Burrough of Fowey in the said
County Yeoman to be my Executrix and Executor in Trust (for my said Four
Daughters untill they shall respectively Attain the Age of Twenty One Years) of
this my last Will and Testament and I earnestly desire and intreat my Executrix
& Executor to Instruct and Educate my said Children as they shall think best
during their Minorityes and to receive the Rents Issues and Profitts of my said
several Estates In Turst for them during such time and on their Attaining the
Afes of Twenty one years respectively to Render and give a True and Just Account
of all such Rents Issues and Rofitts of the said Premisses and of all such sum
or sums of Money to them respectivel as shall come to their Hands Care Charge or
Magement They paying themselves Reasonably for their Labour
Will Millett
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John Richards
Jakeh Hannifer |
W Trevorian (seal) |
Pain Charges & Expenses in and about the Esecution of this
my sd last Will and Testament Revokeing hereby all former and Other will and
wills by me at any time or times heretofore made Ratifyeing & Confirming this to
be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand
and Seal this Twenty Eighth Day of April in the Year of our Lord God One
Thousand Seven Hundred and forty one.
Wm. Trevorian (seal)
Signed Sealed published & Declared
(written on this sheet of paper to which the
Testator Sett his hand & affixed his seal
on each side thereof) in presence of us
Who have likewise Subscribed our
Names at Witnesses of each side in
his presence
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Will Millett
Jakeh Hannifer |
John Richards |
The before written Will was Proved in Common Form the 12th
Feb’ry 1746 Before the Rev’d Mr. Wm Waddon _________________ & Admion of the
Goods ___ of the decd & of all things concerning his Will was Granted to
Margaret Trevoryan the surviving Execut. Therein named (being first Sworne
_________
N.J. The before written Will is a True Copy of the last Will and
Testament of the before named Willm. Trevorian Decd
Examined and Compared with the Original this Second
Day of March 1746 By us.
John Bennett
Wm Okeef
N.B. Words in italics within brackets
are inserted by the transcriber e.g. (signed)
Source: LDS film No. 90193
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