Reference
X472/26
Title
Release of legacies
Date free text
11 Oct 1827
Production date
From: 1822 To: 1827
Scope and Content
by Thomas Ellingham, Eaton Bray, baker and wife Fanny (Fanny being one of the daughters of Thomas Pratt, Totternhoe, farmer, deceased)
Charles Fullwood, Luton, gentleman
Joseph Freeman, Houghton Regis, miller
reciting will of Thomas Pratt, dated 4 July 1822
to wife Elizabeth Pratt
… household furniture etc. as shall choose for her own use
to said wife and sons Thomas and William Pratt
… capital messuage or farmhouse and lands belonging in Totternhoe and Eaton Bray (purchased by the testator's father of John Miller, esquire)
to hold on trust for sale
proceeds to be used:
to pay debts
£600 to be invested in public funds and interest paid to wife (Elizabeth Pratt)
after decease of wife - £15 to Fanny Ellingham
- £100 to said Fanny
residue to be divided between his 12 children
if money insufficient to pay debts, legacies etc. then each of sons, William, Richard, Samuel, James, John and George should abate their share of the legacies proportionately
wife and sons Thomas and William appointed executors
reciting deed of 3 July 1824
a) Thomas Ellingham and Fanny
b) Charles Fullwood
said legacies of £15 and £100 transferred to b) and also Fanny's share of residue of said estate
reciting assignment of 5 July 1824
1) said Thomas Ellingham and Fanny
2) said Joseph Freeman
1) assigned to 2) the premises in deed of 3 July 1824
£26 has been paid to Fanny as part of legacies and share of the residue.
said Thomas and Fanny, Charles Fullwood and Joseph Freeman on 15 April 1826 filed a bill in Chancery against the executors of the will of Thomas Pratt asking that trusts be executed and residue distributed.
In order to terminate said suit, said executors have agreed to pay to Thomas and Fanny £225 (which is in addition to said £26)
now said Thomas, Fanny, Charles and Joseph quitclaim said executors against any further claims regarding said legacies
Case in Chancery not to be proceeded with
signatures of Charles and Joseph, and Thomas Ellingham, mark of Fanny
endorsed: witness: G Hooper, Dunstable
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