Submitted by: | Joyce M Oates |
Date: | 13 November 2007 |
Original: | LDS: 0106213 |
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45 Ballaugh 1724 This is affirmed to be the last will of John Corlet who departed this life the 9th of March 1724. Imprs., he commended in sound mind & memory his soul to God & body to Christian burial. Item, he left his son John all his Lands, wth his pt of the crop & husbandry gears, & his wife also consented that the sd son shd have her pt of the Lands, crop & husbandry gears after her decease. Item, he left to his 2 daughters Katherine & Margt Corlet six pounds vizt 3 pound each wch he order'd his son John to pay them in consideration of what is bequeathed to him in this will, & in case one of the sd daughters dyed, he left the whole 6 pounds to the surviver. Item, he declar'd he owed 9s to his brother Wm, & 19s 6d to Parson Walker. He also left 6d each to the witnesses, & Lastly constituted his loving wife sole Execx of all the rest of his goods moveable & immoveable wtsoever. Witnesses: Wm Corlet senr, Wm Corlet junr, Wm Caley, jurati. The Executrix sworn in form of Law. Probatum est & solvit 10d. The 2 daughters Catherine & Margt have consented to abate 10s each of the 6 pounds bequeath'd them, in consideration that their mother is to have her pt of the crop at her own disposal. Pledges for the Executrix Tho & Wm Caley. The tuition of the Heir who is underage is wth the consent of his sisters committed to the mother. Octr 3d 1738: Cath & Margt Corlett the children of the within John Corlett do acknowledge to be fully paid and satisfy'd by their bror John Corlett in the Legacy of 3 pounds each bequeathed unto them by their father, having abated 10s each, thereof pursuant to their consent at the probate of ye will. Before me, Ed: Moore.
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