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1768 Will of Joshua Stonehouse

Glover

 

This is the last Will and Testament of me Joshua Stonehouse of Yeovill in the County of Somerset Glover I give and devise all and singular my Freehold Messuages Lands and Hereditaments whatsoever situated and being within the parishes of Yeovill aforesaid and Chard in the same County or which of them or elsewhere in the said County of Somerset with their appurtenances to my Wife Sarah Stonehouse and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural Life and from and after her decease I give the same to my two Daughters Elizabeth Priddle and Grace Shore their Heirs and assigns for ever as Tenants in Common and not as joint Tenants I give and bequeath unto my said Wife Sarah Stonehouse the use of my Household Goods and the Interest and produce of all my personal Estate for and during the Term of her natural Life And from and after her decease I give all my Household Goods and all my Goods Chattels personal and Testamentary Estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto my said Daughters Elizabeth Priddle and Grace Shore as Tenants in Common and not as joint Tenants And I hereby make and appoint my said Daughters Elizabeth Priddle and Grace Shore joint Executrixes of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made In Witness whereof I the said Joshua Stonehouse the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament subscribed my Name and set my Seal this tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight and in the Eighth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith

the Mark of Joshua Stonehouse

Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at the request of the said Testator have attested the same in his presence and in the presence of each other

Nath Butler Batten    Hugh Butts    John Sams

 

This Will was proved at London on the fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight before the Worshipful George Harris Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the Right Worshipful George Hay also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oaths of Elizabeth Priddle Wife of Edward Priddle and Grace Shore Widow the Daughters of the Deceased and Executrixes named in the said Will to whom Administration of the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased was granted they having been first sworn duly to administer

 

 

Transcribed by Bob Osborn