John Smith of Long Clawson 1726 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1726

In the Name of God Amen I John Smith of Claxton als Long Clawson in the County of Leicester yeom being in health of body and of Sound and perfect mind and Understanding praised be Almighty God for the Same but considering the Uncertainty of this life and the certainty of death do make and ordain this my last Will and testament in manner and forme following (that is to say)

Impris I resign my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator and my body I committ to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors herein after named and as for my temporal estate which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give devise and bequeath the Same as followes viz

I give and devise all my Lands tenements and hereditamts lying and being within the Lordship and precincts of Claxton als Long Clawson aforesaid Unto my Son Richard Smith his heires and assignes for ever

Item I give and devise all that my three quarters of an oxgang of Land lying and being dispersedly within the Several fields libties and precincts of Nether Broughton aforesaid [sic] which I lately purchased to me and my heires of and from one Mrs Wotton and is now in the possession of Richard Wright Unto my Son Andrew Smith his heires and assignes for ever

Item all the Rest and Residue of my Lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever with their and every of their appurtenances Situate lying and being within the Lordshipp and prescincts of Nether Broughton aforesaid I give devise and bequeath Unto my Son John Smith and his heires

Subject nevertheless to the payment of the Sum of three hundred pounds and Interest for the Same which I owe to Mr James Allen upon Mortgage

And also to the payment of the further Sum of fifty pounds which I hereby give and bequeath Unto my daughter Mary Smith to be paid to her when she attaines to her full age or Two and twenty years

And also Subject to the payment of the further Sum of Thirty pounds which I hereby give and bequeath Unto my daughter Rebecca Smith to be paid to her when She Shall Attain to her full age of one and twenty years And my Will and mind is that if either of my Said daughters shall happen to dye before they Attain to their Said respective ages aforesd that the legacy or porcon of Such of them So dying Shall go Unto the Survivor of them

And I do hereby Charge all my aforesaid Lands tenements and heredittaments whatsoever So given Unto my Said Son John Smith and his heires with the payment of the Said Sum of three hundred pounds and Interest due Unto the said Mr James Allen And also with the payment of the Said two Several Sums of fifty pounds and thirty pounds So given Unto my Said two daughters Mary and Rebecca as aforesaid

Yet nevertheless it is my express Will and mind that my dear and loving Wife Rebeccah Shall receive the Rents issues and profitts of all and Singular my aforesaid Lands tenements and hereditaments So given Unto my Said three Sons Richard Andrew and John Smith Untill they shall attain to their several and respective ages of one and twenty years to enable her to pay and discharge the Interest for the Said three hundred pounds due Unto the Said Mr Allen from time to time as the Same Shall grow due and payable And also to enable her to bring up all my Said Sons and daughters Until they shall Attain their Said respective ages of one and twenty years

Item all the Rest of my Goods Cattle Chattles and personal estate whatsoever my debts legacies and funeral expences being first thereout paid and discharged I give and bequeath Unto my Said loving wife Rebeccah and my Said Son John Smith whom I hereby appoint full and joynt executors of this my Will hereby revoking all former Wills by me made declaring this to be my last Will and testament

In Witness whereof I the Said John Smith the testator have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Sixth day of December in the thirteenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord George now king of Great Britain & Anno dni 1726

                                                                                                         John Smith

Signed Sealed published and declared by the Said John Smith the Testator for and as his last Wil and testament in the presence of us who have Subscribed our names as Witnesses in his presence

Rich: Browne Senior

John Kingston

Richard Browne Junior

A True Inventory of all and Singular the Goods and Cattells of John Smith of Long Claxton in the County of Leicester lately Deceased praised at Claxton aforesaid the Second Day of January 1726 by Hugh Stevens & John Moore of Claxton aforesaid as followeth

	£	s	d
Imp His Purse and Apparel	04	10	00
It In the Chimney Corner fire Iron and Rackings and other things	01	00	00
Item In the House Three Tables, Twelve Chairs	01	00	00
Item Pewter and other necessaries in the House	01	00	00
Item In the Kitchen a Copper two Panns a Table a Cheese Press a Pott and a
Warming Pann	02	02	09
Item In the first Parlour bed & Beding, Six Chairs a Chest of Drawers, one Table
a Chest one Oval Table, Two Trunks	06	10	00
Item In the little Parlour one Bed and a Cradle	02	08	08
In the Dairy Barrels and other things	00	10	06
Item In the Chamber over the Parlour two Beds Two Chests	01	05	00
Item In Linen	00	17	00
Item Three Cows and a Calf	07	15	00
Item Seven Sheep	02	00	00
Item Two Piggs	00	16	00
Item One Broken Plough a Cart and a Harrow Gears and Halters	01	02	00
Item Two Mairs	08	00	00
Item In Barley and Pease	05	00	00
Item In Hay	01	10	00
Item In Fowell	00	15	00
Item For things unseen and forgotten	00	02	06
Totall	48	12	11
Debts Good and bad especially	70	00	00
£	118	12	11

Hugh Stevens

John Moore

Probate 17 January 1728 to Rebecca Smith widow of Long Clawson and John Smith of Long Clawson