Reference
X979/1/1
Title
Copy will of John Abbott of Pulloxhill
Date free text
3 Mar 1791
Production date
From: 1791 To: 1791
Scope and Content
Copy will of John Abbott of Pulloxhill, farmer, “being weak in body”:
- devising to his wife Judith for her natural life all his freehold estate: a house called the Great House [possibly the mansion house of Pulloxhill Rectory Manor or of Pulloxhill and Greenfield Manor though both manors were, by this date, owned by the Earls de Grey] with two lays of land in Fryers Hanes; two roods of ground; a house in the occupation of Richard Huckle Taylor [tailor?]; a house in the occupation of Thomas Neal; a house in the occupation of Luke Lord; three acres of land in Redding Corner, Flitton, chargeable with a rent of £1/15/- per annum payable to the master and brethren of the Hospital of Saint John the Baptist, Bedford; remainder after the death of Judith to his sons John and Jonathan equally, to be charged with the legacies [i.e. money to be given to his daughters – see below];
- devising to his wife the residue of any real estate and bequeathing his stock in trade, goods, chattels and arrears of rent, remainder, after her death to be divided between his two sons John and Jonathan and three daughters Beatrice, Mary and Charlotte with the boys receiving double the portion of the girls “they paying an equivalent to the aforesaid Beatrice, Mary and Charlotte my Daughters” i.e., presumably, a cash sum as a legacy;
- appointing his wife executrix and son John executor;
- witnesses: Thomas Halworth; Thomas Partridge; Joseph Willson;
- appended proof of the will in the Archdeaconry Court of Bedford on 7 May 1791 by Judith and John Abbott – estate valued at under £300
Level of description
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Closed until
2043