Be it remembered that I Roger Jenkin of ye parish of Lanvrechva in the County of Monmouth husbandman being through mercy in good health of body & perfect memory & understanding & considering with my self ye fralty of all flesh & ye uncertainty of ye time of death do make & ordain this my last will & testament in manner & form following (viz) First & principally I commit my soul unto Almighty God my maker & redeemer my body I order to be buried amongst the people called Quakers & as concerning the disposal of all such temporal estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give & devise thereof as followeth. Imprimis I give & devise unto my beloved wife Ciss Jenkin during her natural life (to prevent all cavils disputes contests & law suits about the validity of her jointure & for the further securing & confirming of her right & title to the same) all that tenement & parcel of lands with their appurtenances called Tir Griffith Hoddwch situate lying & being within the parish of Lanvrechva & after her decease unto my neeces Amy Jenkin & Martha Jenkin my brother’s daughters & their right heirs for ever. Item I give & devise all those parcels of called Caia newydd, Cae gwas y Pie, Ddicoedfa & Gwern y Rid ycha & a barn thereon in ye sd pish of Lanvrechva & ye rents issues & profits thereof unto my sd beloved wife during her natural life & after her decease unto my neeces Amy Jenkin & Martha Jenkin my brother’s daughters & their right heirs for ever excepting & reserving all the wood & timber for my neeces & their heirs for ever yet subject & liable to a rent charge of three pounds yearly to my sister Margaret ye widow & relict of Thomas Richard late deceased during her natural life without any defaleation? or abatement whatever & for the due payment thereof I will that my sd wife neeces & their heirs pay unto my sd sister ye sum of fifteen shillings quarterly as long as my sd sister liveth. Item I give & bequeath unto my sd wife two cows one horse & one pig & occupation of all my houshould stuff during her natural life & after her decease to my executors hereafter named. Item I give & bequeath unto my sd wife all my corn growing & severed & all my hay & the rents issues and profits of the farm whereon I now live on condition she takes to ye sd farm after my decease & holds to ye year’s end & pays & discharges ye rent thereof or such part & parcels thereof as shall be due & owing to ye Land Lord for the same. Item I give & bequeath unto my sd wife ye sum of twenty pounds. Item I give unto my sd wife half a score of sheep. Item I give & bequeath unto my nephews Morgan & Jenkin ye sons of Thomas Richard by my sd sister Margaret ye sum of fifteen pounds apiece. Item I unto Sarah Katherine & Margaret daughters of John William James late of Lodge by my neece Margaret ye sum of fifteen pounds to be divided equally amongst them & I will that ye same be paid to their mother & their brother to their use & if either of them die before they attain ye age of twenty one years or be married that then ye part or parts of ye decedent or decedents accrue to ye survivour or survivours of them. Item I give unto Barbara & Anne ye daughters of Evan Howel of Penllwyn Gwent in Glamorganshire ye sum of ten pounds to be equally divided between them & if either of them die before they attain the age of twenty one years or be married the ye part of ye decedent accrue to the survivour of them. Item I give & bequeath unto Mary & Ruth ye eldest & youngest daughters of John William of Lanviangel juxta Lantarnam forty shillings apiece. Item I give unto his four other daughters Margaret, Elizabeth, Ciss & Sarah ye sum of twenty shillings apiece. Item I give & bequeath unto Mary ye daughter of William John James by my neece Anne late deceased ye sum of five pounds. Item I give & bequeath unto Elis Lewis a friend of Monmouthshire, John Walter Jenkin of Panteague, David John a friend near Castle Town, & to Esther Jenkin my kinswoman, & to Isaac Morgan my neighbour ye sum of twenty shillings apiece. Item I give to my friends Evan Bevan schoolmaster of Pontymoile & Anne Thomas Rosser of Manachdy thirty shillings apiece. Item I give unto my friends Matthew Lewis & Ruth Lewis his daughter of Mamhilad, Francis Jenkin of Goytre, Ciss Thomas Rosser of Manachdy, Patrick Walter of Shirenewton, Thomas Lewis & Francis Watkin belonging to Shirenewton meeting, Evan Matthew of Neath in Glamorganshire, Cornelius Francis a mason? of Glamorganshire, Anthony Cooper of Castletown, Mary Evans near Pontymoile & unto my three cousins Charles Morgan, Elizabeth Water Jenkin and Jenkin Morgan ye sum of ten shillings apiece. Item I give unto my friends Gwenlian Wills of Lanviangel Ponty Moile, Lewis Hughs, Katherine John of Lanvrecva being in a house called Ty’r Tlodion? ye sum of five shillings apiece. Item I give to Benjamin Thomas of Mamhilet, & Mary David my old maid servant, to William Edmond my nephew of Panteague for the use of his daughter ten shillings apiece. Item I give to John & Mary ye children of Thomas Evans by my sister in law Martha ye sum of five pounds to be equally divided between them. Item I give unto my neece Amy Jenkin my watch & if she die before she attain ye age of twenty one years or be married then I give my sd watch to my neece Martha Jenkin her sister. Item I give all the rest of my goods cattles & chattles unto my sd neeces Amy Jenkin & Martha Jenkin to be equally divided among them & if either of them die before they attain ye age of twenty one years or be married then I give & bequeath the same as followeth (viz) unto the above named Sarah Katherine & Margaret the daughters of John William James the sum of fifteen pounds & unto Mary the daughter of the above named William John James ye sum of ten pounds & unto John & Mary the children of Thomas Evans ye sum of ten pounds & the rest to the above named Jenkin Thomas & his children. Item I nominate constitute appoint and ordain Henry Edward late of Bedwellty my kinsman and Evan Howel of Penllwyn Gwent of Glamorganshire to be guardians to my neeces Amy Jenkin & Martha Jenkin as for & touching all my devises & bequests unto them & the lands & tenements that descend from me & I give them ye sum of forty shillings apiece in that respect & also reasonable charges for & concerning ye execution of the trust reposed in them. Item I will & order my above named trustees at the charges of my executors hereafter named to assist my wife in ye recovery of the lands & house that is in the tenure or possession of Samuel Hodges senr & in the reparation of ye same as for as half the charges. Finally I nominate constitute appoint & ordain my sd neeces Amy Jenkin & Martha Jenkin to be joint executrices of this my last will & testament revoking all other wills & testaments by me formerly made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal ye twenty ninth day of ye fourth month called June in the year one thousand seven hundred & twenty six.
Signed sealed read published & declared to be ye last will & testament of the testator (these words following vizt Neeces & their heirs, wife, or be married, of Lanviangel, & day being first interlined) in our presence who at his request are witnesses thereof & so have hereunto subscribed our names Elizabeth Knight; Paul Philip; Tho: Allgood.
November ye 11th 1728. We Henry Edward & Evan Howell the testamentary gardians of Amy Jenkin & Martha Jenkin minors ye neeces & executrixs in this will named doe solemnly sincerely & truly declare & affirm that we are dissenters comonly called Quakers and that this writeing contains the true last will and testam’t of Roger Jenkin deced and that ye inventory hereunto annexed is a true & pfect inventory of all & singular ye goods, chells & creditts of the sd deces’t wch came to our hands possion and knowledge & that if any more of ye sd deced goods chells & creditts shall hereafter come to our hands we will add ye same to ye sd inventory and that we will well and truly administer ye sd goods chells & creditts to ye use & dureing ye monority of ye sd minors by paying the debts and legacies of ye sd deced as far as his estate thereto will extend & ye law charge us and that will render a true and just account of our admon to ye use of ye sd minors when we shall be thereunto lawfully required. The marke of Henry Edward: Evan Howell
(Latin – summary) The said Henry Edward & Evan Howell solemnly declared before me Wm Morgan, Surrogate. P’sente me Tho: Davies NP
(Latin – summary) By Wm Morgan, Surrogate. 11 Nov 1728. Henry Edward & Evan Howell, gardians of Amy Jenkin & Martha Jenkin, minors &c &c
An inventory of all & singular the goods chells and creditts of Roger Jenkin late of ye pish of Lanvrechva in ye County of Monmouth & Diocess of Landaff deced made vallued & appraised ye seaventh day of November Anno Dni 1728 by John Biggam & William Morgan appraisors as foll vizt
£ s d
Imp his wearing apparell & watch vallued att 1 15 0
Item Houshold stuffe & implem’ts of husbandry att 11 2 0
Item 3 cows, one horse, one pigg & half a score of sheep att 6 18 0
Item corne & hay att 3 15 0
Item cheese att 0 19 0
Item books att 0 15 0
Item debts sperate & despate due to ye deceas’t by mortgage, bonds, bills
&c ye sum of 235 3 0
Item in ready cash ye sum of 2 2 0
Item lumber & goods omitted or forgotten att 0 10 0
Suma tot 263 19 0
(Latin – summary) Exhibited at Llandaff 11 Nov 1728 by Henry Edward & Evan Howell administrators &c
(Latin) Henry Edward of the parish of Kellygare, Glamorgan, yeoman; Evan Howell, parish of Coychurch, Glamorgan, yeoman; John Charles, parish of Landaffe, Glamorgan, yeoman & John George of Landaffe, Glamorgan, yeoman. 11 Nov 1728
The condition of this obligation is such that if ye above bounden Henry Edward & Evan Howell the administrators? (wth ye will annexed) of all & singular ye goods chells & creditts of Roger Jenkin late of ye pish of Lanvrechva in ye County of Monmouth & Diocess of Landaffe deced to ye use & dureing ye minority of Amy Jenkin & Martha Jenkin minors ye neeces & executrixes named in ye last will & testamt of ye sd deced do make or cause to be made a true & perfect inventory of all & singular ye sd goods chells & creditts & ye same so made do exhibite or cause to be exhibited up to ye Reg’ry of ye Consistory Court of Landaff att or before ye last day of April next ensuing & ye said goods, chells & creditts do well & truly --? to ye --? dureing ye minority of ye sd ex’rs by paying ye debts & legacies of ye said deced so far as by law they are bound & will all so render a true & just acc’t of & upon their said adcon in ye p’misses when thereto by law required and ye residue which shall remain upon their said account ye same being first examined & allowed by ye Judge of ye said Court for ye time being shall distribute & dispose of ye said Judge shall think fit by his decree or sentence according to law; and lastly will save harmless ye said Rt Revd Father in God & all his officers for & touching the granting of ye said adcon; that then this obligation to be void fore as & to remaining in full force and virtue. Henry Edward, Evan Howell, John Charles, John George.
Sigillati & deliberat in p’sentia Tho: Davies NP
Transcribed from a photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park, Newport, South Wales. NP20 6LB Tel 01633 858 359 14 March 2001