This is the last Will and testament of me John Wells of Southsomercotes in the County of Lincoln yeoman who am of good Health in Body and of sound and disposing mind and memory. Impr: I give and bequeath to my Son William Wells & to his Wife and Family fifty shillings a year to be paid in a fat swine hog about Christmas time for eight years after my Decease for & towards his & their use support & Maintenance. I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary Portas five pounds to be paid her respectively twelve months after my Decease. I give and bequeath to each and every one of my Grandchildren that is to say Jinny Hutton, Elizabeth Hutton, Mary Hutton, Frances Hutton and Mary Portas. John Wells, Mary Wells, Alice Wells, Ann Wells, Susanna Wells, Frances Wells, Elizabeth Wells and Dorothy Wells. William Willows, Thomas Willows, George Willows, Susanna Willows, Green Willows, Frances Willows and Edward Willows. Susanna Wells and Mary Baumber. Samuel Wells ???? Welch. five pounds to be paid them at their several Accomplishment of the Age of twenty one years. And the Portion of such of them as shall happen to decease before the said age shall go to my Executor herein after named. All the Rest & residue of my Goods Chattels & personal Estate, I give & bequeath to my Son Thomas Wells paying the said Legacies thereout and I make him my said son Thomas Wells sole Executor hereof and do hereby revoke & declare null & void all former Wills by me heretofore made. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal the Twentieth Day of January in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy.
John Wells [seal]
Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the within named John Wells to be his last Will & Testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses, in the presence of the Testator and of each other.
Edwd Lammiman
Arthur Waters
22 March 1773
Thomas Wells the sole Executor named in the within written last Will & Testament of John Wells deceased was duly sworn before me
H Wilkinson
Harrogate
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