In the name of God Amen this is the last Will & Testamt of me Ann Harries of Lanvair Gilgiddin in the County of Monmouth widow.  I give & bequeath all & singular my corn graine hay cattle sheep piggs horses mares geldings household stuff implements of husbandry ready money and all & singular such other personal estate as I shall be possessed of or any way intitled unto at the time of my death of what nature or kind soever the same shall be unto my two sons William Harries and Thomas Harries to be equally divided between them share and share alike.  And I do appoint my said two sons William & Thomas joint executors of this my last Will & Testament.  Dated the 29^th day of July 1753.  The mark of the sd testatrix Ann (X) Harries.

Signed & published by the testatrix Ann Harries as & for her last Will & Testamt in the presence of us who in her presence & at her request have sett our hands hereto as witnesses to the due execution hereof  Fulford Morgan;  Thos Jenkins

May the 28^th 1760.  William Harries and Thomas Harries the sons and executors in this will named were sworn well and faithfully to execute the same to exhibite an inventory &c and to render an acct &c, before me Nathaniel Wells, Surrogate

This Will was proved at Landaff on the twenty eighth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty before the Reverend Mr Nathaniel Wells, Clerk, Master of Arts, the Chancellor’s Surrogate, by William Harries and Thomas Harries the sons and executors in this Will named who were first on the holy Evangelists personally sworn well and faithfully to execute the same to exhibite an inventory &c and to render a just account of their administration of the same when thereunto lawfully required

Transcribed from a photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park, Newport, South Wales.  NP20 6LB    Tel  01633 858 359 11 February 2003