Submitted by: | Joyce M Oates |
Date: | 7 July 2003 |
Original: | LDS: 0106212 |
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72 Lezaire This is affirmed to be the last will and testament of CATHERINE CORLETT ALIAS CAISMENT who departed this life the 10th of March 1723. First she committed her soul to God and her body to Christian burial. Item, she left the tuition of her CHILDREN to her loving HUSBAND THOMAS CORLET with all the lands and houses, to him during his life time and afterwards, to return as heirship to her ELDEST SON THOMAS CORLETT, and he to pay his YOUNGER BROTHER & SISTER EDMUND CORLETT AND CATHERINE twenty pounds apiece and if one of them died, he was to pay only twenty pounds to the survivor of the said brother or sister, to which the said CATHERINE & HER HUSBAND have both unanimously consented. Item, she left all her goods to her HUSBAND, and to bring up the CHILDREN tenderly as afore said. Item, she left to her two BROTHERS WILLIAM AND THOMAS CAISMENT two muttons and if THOMAS did not come of it, that her BROTHER WILLIAM should have both. Item, she left ISABLE QUARKE a petticoat and blue apron. Item, she left her MAID SERVANT CATHERINE NIDDERAUGH her wearing maunt and petticoat and to the nurse which nurses her child, a flannan petticoat, two coifes and a pinner. Item, she bequeathed to her two SISTERS vizt., ELIZABETH & MARGERET her close linen and woolen. Item, she bequeathed six pence apiece legacy to any that would pretend any right to her goods or lands. Item, she left to the witnesses of her will six pence apiece legacy. Lastly, she constituted and appointed her loving HUSBAND sole executor of all the rest of her goods moveable and immoveable whatsoever. Witnesses here unto: Issable Quarke her mark, Catherine Nidderaugh her mark, jurati. THE EXECUTOR SWORN IN COURT in form of Law. Probatum est & Solvit xxxx. NOTE: THIS CONSENTED TO by the PARTNER in Court that the probation of this Will shall be no Barr to the Contract. Pledges, Captn Edmund Corlet & John Gill. The supervisors are to be sworn next Consistory. THE GOODS IN THE HANDS of the Supervisors, who have given pledges themselves each for the other. Tis agreed, that if the CHILD die under age, the FATHER has consented to give twenty shillings to the next relations, out of his half of the child's goods. NOVEMBER THE 3RD 1724 JOHN CORLETT JUNIOR enters a claimant against the Executors of CATH: CORLETT ALS CASEMENT, for the sum of £3 : 10 : 0 and the interest thereof for four years
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