Will Details

Will of Alice Horton

Date of will 4 December 1748
Status  
Abode when will written Yardley Gobion, Northamptonshire
Date of probate 14 October 1749
Summary of will not available
Persons mentioned in will:
Name Relation Abode Role Notes
Thomas Horton Son    beneficiary executor    
John Horton Grandson    beneficiary    
John Jones     witness    
Edward Bloxham     witness    
Source:  Northampton Record Office,  reference 

In the Name of God Amen I Alice Horton of Yardley Gobyon In The Parish of Potterspury and County of Northampton Widow Being Weak In Body and of Sound and Disposing Mind Memory and Understanding Do Make Publish and Declare this present Writeing to be my last Will and Testament, I recommend my soul to Almighty God and my Body I Committ to the Earth to be Decently buryed at the Discretion of My Executor hereafter named and as for such Temporall Estates I shall dye possessed of I dispose thereof as follows I Will that all such Debts I shall owe at the Time of My Decease together with My Funerall Expences be paid and satisfyed I give to My Grandson John Horton The Summ of Five pounds for Mourning and My Will is that his Mothers receipt for the same shall be a discharge to My Executor for the same and that It be paid Imediately after My Decease In Case My said Grandson Arrives to his Age of Twenty One Years I give and Bequeath him The Sume of Fifty pounds and Also the Bed and Bedding I lye on five pair of Hempen Sheets and one pair of Flaxen My Clock and the Gold Mourning Ring I had for My Husband and I Charge all My personall Estate with the payment of the Said Sume of Fifty pounds at Arrivall at the Age of Twenty one Year as aforesaid; All the Rest Residue and Remainder of My Personall Estate of What Nature or kind soever or Whersoever the Same be I give and Bequeath to My Dear Son Thomas Horton Whom I Constitute Sole Executor of this My Will hereby revokeing all former Wills by me heretofore made and Do Ratify this present Writeing to be my Last Will and Testament In Wittness Whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this Twenty fourth Day of December One thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Eight

Alice Horton

Signed Sealed Published and declared by the Testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament In the presence of us who have subscribed our Names as Wittnesses In her presence and of Each other

John Jones

Edward Bloxham

Probate 14th of October 1749 Thomas Horton the sole Executor named in the within Written Will was then sworn well and faithfully to fulfil the same and soforth

before me E. Watkins Surrogate