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X631/48
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Office copy of the Will of David Yeats extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
David Yeats, Chapel Street, Portland Street, St Marylebone, Middx, Esq bequeaths:
- to wife Jane Fitzhugh Yeats household goods, furniture, plate, china, linen and prints and all real estate, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever
- all the residue of my personal estate and effects to Thomas Bell, Dunstan Court, Mincing Lane, City of London, Esq and John Anderson, Philpot Lane of the same place, Esq, to hold upon trust to dispose of and convert to ready money and interest for said wife, to be vested in children in equal shares at 21 years, of if female if sooner marries, unless such times shall occur during life of said wife in which case the portions will be assigned after her decrease
- upon further trust that the executors shall after decease of said wife apply the profits of the principal monies for the benefit, education and maintenance of the children until their respective shares be assigned.
- may be lawful for executors to dispose of or transfer the said invested funds and reimburse themselves for reasonable costs or charges and not liable for any losses incurred in the investments
- provided that wife within three months of my decease gives up all claim or interest in the estate and bequests to be void if she refuses and the personal effects bequeathed to her to be disposed of
- executors to discharge just debts and funeral expenses 31 July 1792
Codicil: John Levett, East Hinton, Southampton appointed additional executor and trustee and a Guardian of my children.
- give and bequeath unto such of my sons as shall follow the medical profession all books and surgical instruments 31 July 1792
Codicil: now being unwilling to give my friend Thomas Bell Esq the trouble of being an executor. Wife Jane Fitzhugh Yeats, James Hume, Esq, St Catherines near Edinburgh and said John Levitt to be appointed executrix and executors. 9 August 1792
Proved at London with two codicils on 25 September 1792.
On 27 November 1811 administration with the will annexed of the goods, chattels and credits of David Yeats, formerly of St Augustine, East Florida, afterwards of Little Portland Street, but late of Chapel Street, Portland Street, St Marylebone, Middx, Esq, left unadministered by Jane Fitzhugh Yeats widow, the relict of one of the residuary legatees in trust named in the said will was granted to John Levett Yeats Esq son of deceased substituted in the said will having been duly sworn to administer named in 1st codicil dying before the will was proved and James Hume the other and surviving executor named in 2nd codicil, having renamed the probate and execution of the said will and codicils.
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1837
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From: 1837 To: 1837
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