I William Jenkins of the town
of Usk in the County of Monmouth yeoman do make and ordain this my last Will
and Testament in manner and form following (that is to say) I give and devise
unto my beloved wife Anne all that my messuage tenements and gardens with
the appurtenances situate in the town of Usk aforesaid and now the one part in
my possession and the other part rented at present by John James to have and to
hold unto my said wife for and during the term of her natural life. And also I give and bequeath unto my said
wife …ther my personal estate goods and
chattels whatsoever and wheresoever they are during the said term of her
natural life and after her decease I give and demise the said tenements and
appurtenances unto my son Thomas Jenkins and his heirs forever, but
under this restriction that the said Thomas Jenkins shall not mortgage
sell not alienate any part of the said messuage in his life time. I also give and bequeath to my eldest
daughter Susanna the wife of David Rosser late of the town of
Swansea in the County of Glamorgan butcher the sum of sixty pounds of lawfull
money (to be paid in trust within a year and a day next after my wife’s
decease) to my son Thomas Jenkins afores’d and to my son in law William
James of the parish of Langeview yeoman (whom I also appoint to be
executors of this my last Will and Testament) and my will is that the said
trustees to this legacy shall as afore devised pay unto the said Susanna
Rosser only such sums out of the said legacy as shall at any time have occasion
of, but that the said David Rosser shall never have any claim to any part of
the said legacy on any pretence either from his wife or from the said trustees
and if any part of the said sum of sixty pounds be left unpaid at the decease
of the said Susanna the remainder ( her funeral expences being first defrayed)
shall in equal portions be paid to my son Thomas Jenkins’s
children. I also give and bequeath to
my daughter Elizabeth the wife of James Matthews of the
City of Bristol, brasier, the sum of twenty pounds of lawfull money. I give and bequeath to my son in law David
Rosser one shilling. I also give
and bequeath to my granson George Shepard ten pounds of lawfull
money. I also give and bequeath to my
grandaughter Anne daughter of the said William James twenty
pounds of lawfull money. I also give
and bequeath to my grandaughter Mary Shepard ten shillings. I also give and bequeath to my son Thomas
Jenkins all my wearing apparell and after his mother’s decease I also give
him my silver watch. All which legacies
are to be paid as above devised within a year and a day after my wife’s
decease. And if any thing remains of my
personal estate and chattels after mine and my wife’s funeral expences are
defrayed and my just debts paid my will is that the said overplus (if any shall
happen to be) be equally divided between my two said executors …ng residuary legatees or their heirs and
assigns and I do hereby revoke and make void all and every former and other
Will or Wills by me at any time heretofore made and do hereby declare this to
be my last Will and Testament. In
witness whereof the said William Jenkins the testator hath hereunto set his
hand and seal this forth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven h’d sixty and six. The mark of
William Jenkins. Be it remembered that
this Will containing one sheet of paper was signed sealed published and
declared by the testator William Jenkins as and for his last Will and Testament
in the presence of us who subscribed our names as witnesses hereto in his the
said testator’s presence. Abed:
Prichard; Richd Davis; William Morgan
Transcribed from
a photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park, Newport, South
Wales. NP20 6LB Tel 01633 858 359 20 November 2002