In the name of God Amen this is the
last Will and Testament of me Peter Weare of the parish of Tregare in
the County of Monmouth yeoman. I do
hereby give and devise my copyhold messuages or tenements with the
appurtenances scituate in the parish of Garaway in the County of Hereford unto
my son Thomas Weare immediately after my decease to hold to him and his
assigns for ever. Item I give devise
& bequeath to my dearly belov’d wife Mary Weare my interest in a
leasehold estate and lands scituate in the parish of Tregare in the County of
Monmouth granted by the Lord of Abergavenny for three lives for her natural
life only. And immediately after the
decease of my dearly belov’d wife Mary Weare I give and devise my
interest in the aforesaid leasehold estate & lands to my two daughters Ann
and Mary Weare to be equally divided between them, share and share
alike. Item I give and bequeath to my
dearly belov’d wife Mary Weare the rest and remainder of my estate and
effects of what nature and kind soever and wheresoever during the term of her
natural life and immediately after her decease my will and meaning is that the
aforesaid effects of what kind & nature soever shall be equally divided
between my two daughters Ann and Mary Weare. I nominate and appoint Thomas Matthews
farmer and Benjamin James carpenter to be overseers and trustees of this
my Will and I do hereby nominate and appoint my wife Mary Weare to be
sole executrix of this my Will hereby revoking all former Wills by me
heretofore made. In witness whereof I
the said Peter Weare the testator have to this my last Will and
Testament set my hand and seal this fifth day of May one thousand seven hundred
and seventy nine. Peter Weare.
Sign’d, seal’d
publish’d & declared by the said Peter Weare the testator as &
for his last Will & Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and
of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto. James Seward; Thomas (T) Matthews his mark; Ellinor Bullen
27th
April 1784. Mary Weare, widow,
the relict and sole executrix named in the within written Will was sworn to the
truth thereof and to the faithful performance of the same and that the goods
chattels and credits of the deceased do not amount in value to the sum of one
hundred pounds, before me, Benjamin Hall,
Surrogate
Proved at
Abergavenny on the twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty four before the Reverend Benjamin Hall,
Clerk, BD, the Chancellor’s Surrogate by Mary Weare, widow, the
relict of the said deceased and sole executrix in this Will named who was first
on the holy Evangelists personally sworn well and faithfully to execute the
same to exhibit an inventory &c and to render a just account of her
administration thereof 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 28 March 2003