Reference
AD3481
Title
Will of George Herbert of Biggleswade, merchant.
Date free text
16 March 1808; pr. 8 August 1808
Production date
From: 1808 To: 1808
Scope and Content
to brother Cornelius Pateman Herbert £2000, on trust to invest and pay interest to sister Ann, wife of Daniel Hawkins of Bishopsgate, oilman (many provisions for possible children);
£5000 to be similarly invested for brother William, and his possible children;
to aunt Elizabeth Stevens £50 annuity;
to friends Elizabeth & M. Taylor, daughters of G. C. Taylor, late of Road Farm, Biggleswade, now of St. Albans, £20 annunity;
to servants.:
Robert Moule 'good and faithfull servant to my father' 7s. weekly;
William Hookam of St. Ives, lightman, 'good and faithfull', the like
Hannah Barker, housekeeper, £200;
to vicar & chuchwardens of Biggleswade £300 to invest, the proceeds to be given to poor inhabintants who lead good and honest lives and are of the established church and take the sacrament;
to clerks and cellarman £10 apiece for mourning;
to brother Cornelius Pateman Herbert £1000;
residue to brothers Cornelius Pateman & Nathaniel Vincent, executors.
witnesses: Frances Willis, Biggleswade; Isaac Hindley; H.O. Roe, Baldock.
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