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Pat Stafford, Gittens Wills, 1729-1860 (, Dec 2008).
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WILL
Nathaniel1752RB6/22/96
Item. Debts and funeral expenses to be paid by Executor.
Item. …to my loving daughter Mary Weekes the wife of Roger Weekes thesum of £1000 currents money…
Item. …to my loving daughter Elizabeth Gittens the sum of £1000current money.
Item. …to my loving daughter Rebecca Gittens the sum of £1000 like money…
Item. ….to the several children of my son-in-law Roger Weekes and Mary his wife that are now living (vizt) Ralph, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Robert, Jane and John Weekes & to each of them £20 current money… as they attain the age of twenty one years;…their portion on dying to be equally divided…
Item. …unto the several children of my son-in-law Joseph Gittens and Hannah his wife…John, Nathaniel, Jane, Joseph, Hannah, Benjamin and Mary…each of them the sum of £20 current money…attain the age of twenty one… so dying shall be equally divided between them…
Item. ….to my granddaughter Elizabeth Gittens the daughter of my deceased son Nathaniel Gittens… one piece or parcel of land which I bought of Robert Brathwaite being seven acres or thereabouts; and the sum of £600 current money…she reach the age of twenty one years upon condition that my said granddaughter Elizabeth Gittens and her mother Elizabeth Gittens, widow, …take no advantage of a certain deed of sale…9 June 1735 relation thereunto being had will more at large appear. But in case my granddaughter and her mother take advantage ofsaid deed…my said granddaughter shall be cut off with the sum of fiveshillings current money…
Item. …daughter-in-law Elizabeth Gittens, widow and relict of my son Nathaniel Gittens, the sum of £400 current money upon condition that my said daughter-in-law take no advantage of that deed of sale…if my said daughter-in-law should take advantage …shall receive but five shillings current money…
Item. …if my granddaughter Elizabeth Gittens shall depart this life before the age of twenty one years…the legacy bequeathed her of £600and seven acres of land shall be equally divided between my fourdaughters…
Item. …in case my daughter-in -law, Eliza. Gittens, widow shall not abide and stand by this will then the legacy … shall descend and bedivided among my aforementioned four daughters…
Item. All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate…bequeath to my son-in-law Joseph Gittens and his heirs for ever.
Sole Executors: Joseph Gittens.
26 October 1742
Witnesses: Thomas Briggs, William Harrison, Henry Clarke.
Proved: 18 October 1752, Henry Grenville. |
