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The Will of Joseph Vines of Caversham
1804

I Joseph Vines of Caversham in the county of Oxford, yeoman, being weak in body but of sound mind ???  and understanding, praised be God for that ??? Do make and publish this my last will and Testament in manner following that is to say 

First I devise that all my just debts funeral and testamentary charges and expenses may be fully paid and satisfied and after payment thereof I give to my brother David Vines all and singular my wearing apparel. I give to my brother David Vines the sum of Five pounds. 

I give to my servant Harriet Blake Spinster the sum of 100 pounds  to and for her own use and benefit and I give to the child with which she the said Harriet Blake is now with the sum of one hundred pounds be paid to such child on attaining the age of twenty one years and the interest thereof in the meantime with such part of the principal as my executor hereinafter named shall think proper to be paid and applied by my said executors towards the maintenance education bringing up and apprenticing of such child in such way or manner as my said executor shall think fit but in case the said Harriet Blake shall not prove with child or being so such child shall die before attaining twenty one years of age then I give the said one hundred pounds together with the interest thereof or such part thereof as shall not have been applied in manner aforesaid unto the said Harriet Blake in case she shall then be living, and if she shall then be deceased I give the sum unto my dear brother Jhn ?? Vines widow her trustees and administrators to ??? for her own use and benefit and all the residue of my estate and effects I give unto my brother Edward Vines and do appoint him  to be Executor of this my will. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of May 1804

----Jos…h Vines

Signed sealed and delivered by the said testator
As and for his last will and testament in the 
Presence of 
---Martha Vines
---Jhn? Shoply?

This will was proven at London the 
Third day of August in year of our lord one
thousand eight hundred and four before the
worshipful Charles Cook Doctor of Laws Surrogate
of the right honourable Sir William Wynn?
Knight, also Doctor of Laws ???  ???
Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
lawfully constituted by the oath of Edward Vines 
the brother of the deceased and the sole executor 
named in the said will to whom admon
of all and singular the goods chattels and credits 
of the said deceased was granted having been
first sworn duly to administer.

Caversham is in Oxfordshire, just across the River Thames from Reading Berks, where the Vines families lived.
Joseph was born about 1779. His brother David was born in 1760 and Edward, a solicitor, in 1767.
Brother John was the third last child in the family of Edward1725 and Ann Henly, born about 1778.
Martha Vines who witnessed the will was the wife of David, Martha Patty Bushnell.