BS1443

Probate Will [copy] of Sir Gillies Payne of Tempsford Hall, baronet. Disposal of goods and property in England and West Indies [details given]. Executors: Dame Maria Payne, Richard Booth, Richard Neave and Thomas Neave. Codicil: recites that he has given George Sharpe, husband of daughter Christiana, £1000 since making will, and in his will has given her £3500. Revokes latter, giving Christiana £2500 instead. Revokes bequest of Butler's close and the coal wharf to son Peter, instead lands purchased of [-] Titmas. Another codicil.

14 Feb 1794, with two codicils 1 Jul 1796 and 13 Oct 1799, proved 1 Jul 1801

From: 1794 To: 1801

Details given: - To wife Dame Maria Payne, £200; all plate, linen, china, books, household goods, wine etc, and all horses and carriages which are kept for pleasure; everything in outhouses of new built mansion house in Tempsford. - To son John Payne, corn, grain, hay, straw, horses not kept for pleasure, cattle, farm stock. - To wife Dame Maria, Richard Booth of Grendon Hall, Northamptonshire, esquire, Richard Neave of Broad Street, London, merchant, and Thomas Neave of Broad Street, merchant, all real estate in England, personal estate in house occupied by John Payne at Tempsford, and all real and personal estate in West Indies, on trust to dispose as follows: -- new built mansion at Tempsford and lands appertaining to use of wife for life; -- messuage late in the occupation of Mrs Elizabeth Phipps, now son John, and 6 acres close adjoining, in trust for son John till death of wife, then for daughters Mary and Susannah till marriage, then to be sold; -- old messuage in Tempsford near the river Ouse, gardens appertaining, adjoining the Lime Grounds north, Butler's close, and the Wharf, premises in the occupation of Mr Herbert, 2 pieces of pasture called the Holmes, to son Peter for life; -- remainder of estate (except on Nevis Island) to son John; -- plantation in St Anne, Sandy Point, St Kits, to use of son Peter; -- plantation in Nevis, being already charged with 2 annuities - £500 to son John, £400 to son Peter - to be sold to pay annuities to wife (£650), son John (£500) and son Peter (£100), daughters Mary and Susannah (£50 each), niece Anne, daughter of late brother Charles (£40); Trustees to raise sum of £19 000, out of which to daughter Mary £3500, to wife and trustees £3000, upon trusts stated, to daughter Christiana, wife of George Sharpe, esquire, £3500, to daughter Janet, wife of Richard Booth, £1500, to daughter Elizabeth, wife of Mr Richard Palmer, £3000, to daughter Susannah £3500, to wife £1000; - the £3000 to trustees as follows: -- interest to daughter Frances, widow of John McArthy Sharpe, esquire, for life. Clause relating to negroes as in BS 684. Remainder to son John.

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Payne, Gillies,
Payne, Maria,
Booth, Richard,
Neave, Richard,
Neave, Thomas,
Sharpe, George,
Sharpe, Christiana,
Payne, Christiana,
Payne, Peter,
Titmas,
Payne, John,
Phipps, Elizabeth,
Payne, Mary,
Payne, Susannah,
Herbert,
Payne, Anne,
Payne, Charles,
Payne, Janet,
Booth, Janet,
Payne, Elizabeth,
Palmer, Richard,
Palmer, Elizabeth,
Payne, Frances,
Sharpe, Frances,
Sharpe, John McCarthy

will, merchant, field names, plantations, slavery, Tempsford Hall, St Kitts, Nevis, Grendon Hall, Bloomsbury Broad Street, TEMPSFORD