• Reference
    HN2/PoF26
  • Title
    Office copy will of John Sibley
  • Date free text
    23 Jul 1757
  • Production date
    From: 1757 To: 1760
  • Scope and Content
    Office copy will of John Sibley of Cogenhoe [Northamptonshire], gentleman: - devising to his son Robert his pieces of arable, ley, meadow and pasture in the fields of Cogenhoe and known as Fishers Farm; - devising to his son Richard his cottage in Cogenhoe with an acre of meadow lying in Cooknoe Meadow; - devising to his son Richard his pieces of arable, ley, meadow and pasture in the fields of Cogenhoe and known as Hootons Farm sometime since purchased of Widow Smith; - devising to his son Richard his homestead and orchard and arable, ley, meadow and pasture in Cogenhoe sometime since purchased of Thomas Smith and others; - devising his house in Brafield-on-the Green [Northamptonshire] to his son Richard with arable, ley, meadow and pasture in Brafield and Little Houghton [Northamptonshire] sometime since purchased of Thomas Pendred; - bequeathing £100 to his son Edward; - bequeathing the residue of his personal estate equally to his sons Richard and Robert; - appointing his sons Richard and Robert executors; - witnessed by Henry William Markham. Thomas Wright junior and John Litchfield Proved 23 Jan 1760
  • Level of description
    item