Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AD1278
  • Title
    Will of James Briggs of Leagrave, ymn.
  • Date free text
    23 Aug 1718; probate 4 Dec 1718
  • Production date
    From: 1718 To: 1718
  • Scope and Content
    Upon trust to 'my loving friends' Fra. Hopkins, Sam. Simons & Michael Headen the elder. -- Mess. in Leagrave 'wherein I dwell'. 6 pasture closes (8 ac.). land in Leagrave & Chalton (160 ac.). except a small close of pasture in Leagrave nr. Sawpit Lane. To be sold for payment of debts, mortgages etc. & invested for support of chn. until yngr. son Jonas is 21. Then James (elder son ) - £150, Jonas - £100, daughter. Frances & Joannah - £60 each. To wife Joannah - the pightle excepted above, provided she relinquishes her thirds. Wife Joannah - executrix Witnesses: S. Marsom, William Howe, Jeremiah Green
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