Transcript of will of Isaac Barker 1759

	In the Name of God Amen
	I, Isaac Barker of Steeple in the County of Essex
	Yeoman being of Sound and Disposing Mind Memory and
	Understanding (Blessed be god) Do make and Ordain this my last
	Will and Testament in manner following (that is to say) First
	I Give and Devise unto my Daughter Sarah Barker and her
	Heirs for Ever All and Every my Copyhold or Customary Messua-
	ges or Tenements Farm Lands and Hereditaments with their
	and Every of their Appurtenances situate and being in
	Danbury in the Said County of Essex holden of the Manor
	of Bicknacre Priory and now in the Several Tenures or
	Occupations of Joseph Hawkes and ____ Markeridge
	their or one of their Undertenants or Assigns Also I Give
	and Bequeath unto my Son Isaac Barker the Sum of One
	Hundred Pounds And unto my Son John Barker the sum of
	Two Hundred Pounds And unto my Daughter Elizabeth
	Barker the like Sum of Two Hundred Pounds, the Said Several
	Legacies to be paid at the End of Twelve Calendar Months
	next after my Demise And I Give and Bequeath unto my
	Sons Thomas Barker and Joseph Barker the Sum of Two
	Hundred Pounds a piece And unto my daughter Mary
	Barker the like sum of Two Hundred Pounds the Said
	Legacies to my Said Sons Thomas and Joseph to be Paid
	to them Severally at their respective Ages of one and Twenty
	Years And the said Legacy to my said Daughter Mary to be
	paid to her at her age of one and Twenty Years or day of
	Marriage which shall first happen And I Give and
	Bequeath the leases of my Farms and all my Right Interest
	and Terms of years in such Farms And all and Every my
	Monies Securities for Money Goods Chattels Emblements
	Debts Stock Effects and Personal Estates whatsoever not herein
	before by me given or Disposed of (my Just Debts Funeral Charges
	and the Costs of the Probate of this my Will being first paid and
	satisfied) Unto my Loving Wife Elizabeth Barker her Executors
	and Administrators to and for their own use and
	benefit But Upon this Condition Nevertheless That my Said
	Wife her Executors or Administrators Do and Shall at her or
	their own Costs and Charges Maintain Educate and bring up
	my Said Sons Thomas and Joseph Barker Untill they shall
	Severally Attain the Age of One and Twenty Years and my
	Said Daughters Mary and Sarah untill they shall Severally
	Attain the like Age or be Married and Fund and Provide
	Clothes Schooling and all other Necessaries proper and
	Convenient for them without asking or requiring any thing of
	them or any of them or Deducting or retaining any thing out of
	their or any of their Portions or Fortunes for or upon Account
	of Such Their Maintenance and Education Clothing Schooling
	or otherwise And I do Nominate make and Appoint my
	Said Wife Elizabeth Barker Sole Executrix of this my last
	Will and Testament And also Guardian of my Said Infant
	Children during their respective Minorities and do Revoke all
	other Wills by me made Declaring this to be my last Will and
	Testament In Witness whereof I the Said Isaac Barker
	the Testator have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Ninth
	day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
	Hundred and Fifty Nine Isaac Barker. Signed Sealed
	Published and Declared by the Said Isaac Barker as and for
	his last Will and Testament in our Presence and attested by us
	in his Presence Robt Cottiss John Snushall Willm Smart
		This Will
	was proved on the twentieth day of August in the Year of
	our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Nine before
	me Reverend George Cowperthwaite Clerk Surrogate upon the
	Oath of Elizabeth Barker Widow the Relict of the Deceased
	and Sole Executrix to whom Administration of all and Singular
	the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased was Granted
	and Committed She being first Sworn duly to Administration

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The will of Isaac Barker, 1759