Scope and Content
... to Elizabeth, wife of John Skilleter, Sandy, gardener, and Ann Moore, Sandy, widow
- all messuages, lands etc. in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, being copyhold
to hold as tenants in common, subject to payment of annuity of £5..5s to mother Susannah Hubbard, Blunham, widow, for life
... to said mother
- household goods, plate, china, books etc. as she shall choose to take for her own use, benefit or disposal
... to friends Daniel Smith, Old Warden, farmer, and Edward Sutton, Beeston, Northill, farmer
- residue of above household goods
in trust to divide equally between relations i.e. Thomas Squire, Shefford, maltster, William Squire, Shefford, baker, James Ibbott, Shefford, labourer, William Ibbott, Cardington, baker, and Ann, wife of Robert Parker, Baldock, Hertfordshire, matmaker
... to said mother
- monies and securities for monies and all other personal estate, for life for her benefit and support, she paying all debts and funeral charges
after mother’s death, then to Samuel and Edward Sutton to be disposed of on trust
to place £40 on public and private security or stock and to pay interest to use of pastor of Congregation of Protestant dissenters in Blunham
If congregation dissolved then £40 to fall back into personal estate.
to pay £10 to John Squire of Shefford, miller, and £20 to William Stevens, Henlow, shopkeeper, as ‘small acknowledgement for the favors done to me in and about my affairs’
£10 to Ebenezer Mayle (son of Martin Mayle, dissenting minister of Blunham)
Residue of money and personal estate to be divided between relations, Thomas Squire, William Squire, James Ibbott, William Ibbott, and Ann Parker as are living at mother’s death
Samuel and Edward Sutton appointed executors and are requested to help mother in management of her affairs
... to said Samuel Sutton
- £100 as gratuity for trouble taken in management of will and for many favours done to her
... to Edward Sutton
- £10 for accepting executorship
will dated 26 Feb 1787
probate (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) 30 May 1788