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1768 Will of Joshua Stonehouse
Glover
This is the last Will and Testament
of me Joshua
Stonehouse of
Yeovill in the
County of
Somerset Glover
I give and
devise all and
singular my
Freehold
Messuages Lands
and
Hereditaments
whatsoever
situated and
being within the
parishes of
Yeovill
aforesaid and
Chard in the
same County or
which of them or
elsewhere in the
said County of
Somerset with
their
appurtenances to
my Wife Sarah
Stonehouse and
her Assigns for
and during the
Term of her
natural Life and
from and after
her decease I
give the same to
my two Daughters
Elizabeth
Priddle and
Grace Shore
their Heirs and
assigns for ever
as Tenants in
Common and not
as joint Tenants
I give and
bequeath unto my
said Wife Sarah
Stonehouse the
use of my
Household Goods
and the Interest
and produce of
all my personal
Estate for and
during the Term
of her natural
Life And from
and after her
decease I give
all my Household
Goods and all my
Goods Chattels
personal and
Testamentary
Estate
whatsoever and
wheresoever unto
my said
Daughters
Elizabeth
Priddle and
Grace Shore as
Tenants in
Common and not
as joint Tenants
And I hereby
make and appoint
my said
Daughters
Elizabeth
Priddle and
Grace Shore
joint
Executrixes of
this my last
Will and
Testament hereby
revoking all
former Wills by
me at any time
heretofore made
In Witness
whereof I the
said Joshua
Stonehouse the
Testator have to
this my last
Will and
Testament
subscribed my
Name and set my
Seal this tenth
day of May in
the year of our
Lord one
thousand seven
hundred and
sixty eight and
in the Eighth
year of the
Reign of our
Sovereign Lord
George the third
by the Grace of
God of Great
Britain France
and Ireland King
Defender of the
Faith
the Mark of
Joshua
Stonehouse
Signed Sealed
published and
declared by the
said Testator as
and for his last
Will and
Testament in the
presence of us
who at the
request of the
said Testator
have attested
the same in his
presence and in
the presence of
each other
Nath Butler
Batten
Hugh
Butts
John Sams
This Will was proved at London on the
fifth day of
September in the
year of our Lord
one thousand
seven hundred
and sixty eight
before the
Worshipful
George Harris
Doctor of Laws
and Surrogate of
the Right
Worshipful
George Hay also
Doctor of Laws
Master Keeper or
Commissary of
the prerogative
Court of
Canterbury
lawfully
constituted by
the oaths of
Elizabeth
Priddle Wife of
Edward Priddle
and Grace Shore
Widow the
Daughters of the
Deceased and
Executrixes
named in the
said Will to
whom
Administration
of the Goods
Chattels and
Credits of the
said Deceased
was granted they
having been
first sworn duly
to administer
Transcribed by Bob Osborn
