• Reference
    RO30/1
  • Title
    Office Copy of Will of Joseph Samm of Ampthill, gentleman
  • Date free text
    Will dated: 20 Jul 1785 proved 6 Jan 1787
  • Production date
    From: 1785 To: 1787
  • Scope and Content
    -to nephew Henry Plant son of sister Plant, £5 at age 18 -to wife Mary 5 messuages or cottages containing 10 tenements in Ampthill now in occupation of Samuel Field, James Billington, William Johnson, Isaac Jones, Peter Cox, Samuel Gillitt, Samuel Stanbridge, Elizabeth Page, John Gray and John Stapleton -to wife, acre of sward ground in Ampthill called Dawbons Acre now in occupation of Thomas Patch -to wife, 6 messuages in Maulden in occupation of Benjamin Clarke, Richard Newman, William Linfield, John Hawkins, Joseph Smith and -- Partridge -to wife, 2 messuages or cottages containing 4 tenements in Eversholt in occupation of Henry Boice, John Everitt, George Everitt -to wife, 4 acres arable in common fields of Toddington now in occupation of Mr King -to wife, messuage or cottage being 2 tenements in Hawnes in occupation of John Matthews and Thomas Wright -to wife, messuage or cottage being 2 tenements in Lidlington now rented by William Crouch -to wife, 3 parts of 5 of an estate in Clophill now rented by Mr Goodhall -residue to wife, executrix Witnesses: William Morris, Lancaster Cooper, Jeremy Reynolds Proved: Archdeaconry of Bedford 6 Jan 1787 Copy attested by Samuel Bailey
  • Russell 'wallpaper books' Volume V. no.101 pg.162
  • Level of description
    item