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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.
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