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The Will of John Allen, dated 12 October 1778
The Will of John Allen. Proved 29th January 1779
By Permission of Almighty God, I John Allen of the parish of Maker in the County
of Cornwall yeoman being very weak in Body but if Sound Mind and Disposing
Memory (blessed be God) calling to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing
that it is appointed for all Men once to Die and needing to Settle the Temporal
Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in the Life and in order to
proven to all Difference and Disputes ?------? the same after my Death and
Decease do make and Ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament in Manner and
Form following (thats to say)
First I give and bequeath unto my daughter Margery Stadon the Wife of Robert
Stadon now in the Town of Millbrook in the said Parish of Maker the sum of one
shilling.
Also I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Trefathen the Wife of Thomas
Trefathen of the Parish of St Germans in the County of Cornwall the sum of one
shilling.
Also all the residue and remainder of my Goods Chattels Rights Credits and
Personal Estate whatsoever or of what kind of Nature soever after my Funeral
Charges and Just Debts are paid I do hereby Give Bequeath and Devise them to my
Wife Mary Allen whom I likewise Constitute make and Ordain my sole Executrix of
this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby and Utterly disally, revoke make
and disannul all and other Former Testaments Wills Legacies Bequests and
Executors by me in my will before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and
confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In Witness
whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this twelfth day of October in the
year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight.
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced
and Declared by the said John Allen
as and for his Last Will and Testament
in the Presence of us whose Names
are hereunto Subscribed :
(signed) James Bligh
(signed) Charles Freathy
(signed) Peter Kitt |
(the signe or marke of)
John Allen (sealed) |
N.B. Words in italics within brackets
are inserted by the transcriber e.g. (signed)
Source: CRO Ref : AP/A/944
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