This is the last Will & Testament of me George Sumner of Desborough in the
County of Northampton, Grazier, made this thirty-first day of October in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and whereof I appoint
my only son James Sumner
sole Executor with power to adjust compound and
settle all debts, amounts, and transactions, matters and things between any
person, or persons and myself and which may be unsettled at my decease
I hereby give and bequeath unto my dear wife
Ann Sumner such articles of
furniture and other household effects belonging to me as she may think
proper to select, not exceeding in value the sum of twenty pounds, for her
absolute use and benefit
I give devise and bequeath all my real estates and also all the Residue
of my Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever, and of what nature or kind,
the same respectively may be at my decease (subject to, and after payment out
of my personal estate of my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses)
unto and to the use of my said son James Sumner, his heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns according to the nature of such estates
respectively, subject to, and charged and chargeable with, the payment half
yearly, and to commence from the day of my decease of an annuity or yearly
rent charge of fforty pounds which I hereby bequeath unto my said wife Ann
Sumner for her life, if she so long continue my widow but not otherwise, with
such power of distress over my said real estate in case any half yearly
payment of the said annuity or yearly rent charge shall be in arrear for the
space forty days, as Landlords have for the recovery of rent in arrear
reserved on leases for years
and I also further subject and charge James
Sumner with the payment of the sum of ffour hundred pounds sterling to unto
my daughter Ann Harris, the wife of
John Harris of Desborough aforesaid, Maltster, payable at the expiration of twelve Calendar months from the
decease of my said wife or the determination of her widowhood, which shall
first happen, and which legacy or sum of money I have bequeath to my said
daughter accordingly for her own absolute use and benefit
I hereby devise all estates vested in me as trustee or mortgagee in fee
unto and to the use of my said son James Sumner, his heirs and
assigns upon the tenets[?] and subject to the equities affecting the same
respectively
In witness whereof I the said George Sumner have to this my last Will and
Testament, hereby revoking all former and other wills, testamentary papers and
writings by me made, set my hand the day and year first aforesaid
George Sumner Signed by the said George Sumner the
testator as and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us
present at the same time, who at his request, in his presence and in the
presence of each other, hereunto subscribe our names as witnesses Jas
Ley Douglass Solr Mt Harborough
Thomas Stacey
Desborough
Proved at London 6th August 1852 before the Judge by the oath of James
Sumner the Son the sole executor to whom admon was granted having been first
sworn by Comon duly to administer.
Notes:-
The original will has little punctuation or separate
paragraphs. As this makes it hard to read I have
inserted some punctuation and broken the text into separate clauses.
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