Original will, Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich branch, reference IC/AA1/128/13.
Be it remembred that Benjamine Alefounder of Debenham in the County of Suff:
Singleman, who departed this life vpon the tenth day of Aprill in the yeare of
our Lord One thousand Six hundred ninety & eight, att his dwelling howse in
Debenham aforesaid, being then did on or about the sixth day
of the said Moneth of Aprill, being then sicke, of wch sicknes hee
dyed, being of Sound minde & memory and feareing hee should dye of that
sicknes ^seriously declard his intencõn to
dispose of his estate & to make his will, and to that end did then &
there by word of Mouth make his last will nuncupative in the words following or
to the same effect in the pesence of severall witnesses who tooke
notice therof. All that I have I give to my child, And I would have her Mother
take care of it (Meaneing A girle which hee had begotten on the body of Ann
Gant of Mickfeild in Suff: wch child hee owned to be his in his life
time.) And I make her (Meaneing the said Ann Gant) ^my
Executrix: All wch or to the same effect the said Benjamin did
declare to be his will, to Mr Richard Newton Edward Kell & Mary Burnett the
Nurse who in testimony therof have sett their hands: Att wch time was also
pesent, one John Smith:
R Newton The Marke of Edw. + Kell The marke of Mary + Burnett
The 7th day of June 1698 Edw: Kell & Mary Burnett were sworn to the truth of the will above written /before mee. Sam: Salmon Surr ./
6 June 1698 Mr Richard Newton was sworne to the truth of the will abovesd before mee Jos. Cutlove surro. /
8th of June 1698 Mss. Ann Gant was Sworne Executrix to the Will above~sd coram me Johe Candler Surr.
Probatum fuit hiñodi testamentum Apud Gipp~um Coram mro
^Johanñd Candler Joseph Cutlove
Cl~ico Artium magrõ surro venl~is viri
henrici Fauconberge legum dcõris Archiñatus Suffolcie
Comeij etinid constituti octavo die mensis Junij Anno Dñi
1698o Juramento Executricis in eodem noi~ate Cui comissa
fuit Admco bonor~u &c de bene &c jurat &c
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Transcribed by Peter Alefounder 1994 |
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