NLW Ref: LL/1793/35

In the name of God Amen I Mary Andrews of the parish of Goytrey in the County of Monmouth widow do make this my last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say, I give and devise all that my messuage or tenement farm and estate commonly called and known by the name of Pentre bach situate lying and being in the said parish of Goytrey unto Solomon Jones of the parish of Lantillio Pertholey in the said County of Monmouth Esquire and his heirs to the uses upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes herein after mentioned, that is to say, to the use of William Morgan of the parish of Mamhilad in the said County of Monmouth Esquire his executors administrators and assigns for and during and unto the full end and term of ninety nine years to be computed from my death upon the trusts herein after mentioned and subject to such term and the trusts thereof to the use of William Andrews the son of John Andrews late of the said parish of Goytrey yeoman deceased for and during the term of his natural life and from and after the determination of that estate by forfeiture or otherwise in the lifetime of the said William Andrews to the use of the said Solomon Jones and his heirs during the natural life of the said William Andrews upon trust to preserve the contingent uses herein after limited from being defeated or destroyed and for that purpose to make entries and bring actions as the case may require but nevertheless to permit and suffer the said William Andrews and his assigns to receive and take the rents issues and profits of the said hereby devised hereditaments and premises to his and their own use during his natural life and from and immediately after the death of the said William Andrews to the use of the first and of all and every other the son and sons of him the said William Andrews lawfully begotten or to be begotten severally successively and in remainder one after another as they and every of them shall happen to be in priority of birth and of the several and respective heirs of the body and bodies of all and every such son and sons lawfully issuing the elder of such sons and the heirs of his body issuing being always preferred and to take before the younger of the same sons and the heirs of his and their body and bodies lawfully issuing. And foe default of such issue to the use of all and every the daughter and daughters of the body of the said William Andrews lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the heirs of their respective bodies to take in equal parts and shares as Tenants in Common and not as joint tenants. And in case of the death and failure of issue of any one or more of the said daughters all and every the share and shares as well originally belonging to as accruing or devolving upon such daughter or daughters respectively by survivorship shall from time to time and so often as it shall so happen go remain and enure to the survivors and survivor and others and other of the said daughters and to the heirs of the body and bodies of such surviving and other daughter and daughters respectively such surviving and other daughters if more than one to take also in equal parts and shares as Tenants in Common and not as joint tenants and if all such daughters but one shall die without issue then to the use of such only surviving daughter and the heirs of her body lawfully issuing and for default of such issue to the use of Thomas David of the parish of Lanover in the said County of Monmouth yeoman and Ann his wife for and during the term of their natural lives and the life of the survivor of them and from and after the death of the survivor of them the said Thomas David and Ann his wife to the use of William David and Thomas David (two of the sons of the said Thomas David by the said Ann his wife) their heirs and assigns forever as Tenants in Common and not as joint tenants.

Item my will is and I do hereby declare that the said term on ninety nine years is and shall be upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes herein after mentioned, that is to say, upon trust for the said William Morgan his executors administrators and assigns with all convenient speed after my death by rents issues and profits mortgage sale or other disposition of the premises to be comprised in such term or of a competent part thereof for all or any part of the same term to raise and pay the following life annuity and sum of money, that is to say, unto William Williams of the said parish of Lanover carpenter for and during the term of his natural life one annuity or clear yearly sum of twenty shillings of lawful money of Great Britain by equal half yearly payments the first half yearly payment thereof to begin and to be made at the end of six calendar months next after my decease, and to pay to my niece Mary Price the widow of David Price late of the City of London taylor deceased the sum of ten pounds of like lawful money at the end of twelve calendar months next after my death.

Item I give and bequeath unto the said William Morgan his executors and administrators the sum of one hundred and ninety pounds of lawful money of Great Britain part of my personal estate in trust nevertheless to place the same out at interest from time to time at the risque of the parties to be benefited thereby on such security or securities as he the said William Morgan his executors or administrators shall think proper and to pay the interest thereof to the said Thomas David the father for and during the term of his natural life. And from and immediately after his death in trust to pay the interest of the said principal sum of one hundred and ninety pounds to the said Ann the wife of the said Thomas David if she shall him survive for and during the term of her natural life and from and immediately after the death of the survivor of them the said Thomas David and Ann his wife in trust to pay the same one hundred and ninety pounds unto and amongst Francis David, Margaret David and Martha David three of the children of the said Thomas David by the said Ann his wife and all and every other the child or children of the said Thomas David by the said Ann his wife hereafter to be born in equal proportions share and share alike but my will is that the said Francis David and such after born son and sons of the said Thomas David by the said Ann his wife shall respectively have a vested and transmissible interest in his or their share or shares of the said one hundred and ninety pounds on attaining his or their age or ages of twenty one years and that the said Margaret David and Martha David and such after born daughter or daughters of the said Thomas David by the said Ann his wife shall respectively have a vested and transmissible interest in her and their share and shares of the said one hundred and ninety pounds on attaining her or their age or ages of twenty one years or sooner marrying which shall first happen.

And my will is that the interest of the said one hundred and ninety pounds to accrue and grow due from and after the death of the survivor of them the said Thomas David and Ann his wife shall from time to time after the death of such survivor be paid and applied for or towards the maintenance and education of the said Francis David and such after born son and sons of the said Thomas David by the said Ann his wife until he or they shall attain his or their age or ages of twenty one years and of the said Margaret David and Martha David and such after born daughter and daughters of the said Thomas David by the said Ann his wife until they shall respectively attain the age of twenty one years or sooner marry. And if any such son or sons daughter or daughters shall die without having obtained such vested and transmissible interest as aforesaid the part and share parts and shares of him her or them so dying shall go over and belong to and be a vested and transmissible interest in the survivors and survivor of them in like manner as his her and their original part and share parts and shares of and in the said one hundred and ninety pounds.

Item I give and bequeath all the rest and residue of my personal estate of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever after payment of my debts and funeral expences unto the said Ann David for her own separate use and benefit independant of her said husband and I will that her receipt for the same residuary personal estate shall be good and effectual notwithstanding her coverture.

Item I appoint the said William Morgan sole executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me made and do declare this only to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament contained in three sheets of paper set my hand and seal, that is to say, to the two first sheets my hand and to the last sheet my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine..

The mark of the testatrix Mary (X) Andrews

Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Mary Andrews the testatrix as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at her request and in her presence have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto . Wm Morgan of Penstair; Samuel Howell of Goytrey, labourer; L Osborne, clerk to Mr Kinsey of Abergavenny

15 Oct 1793. William Morgan the sole executor in the above written will named was sworn to the truth thereof & to the faithful performance of the same, that the goods chattles & credits of the said dec’d do not amount in value to the sum of three hundred pounds. Before me Benj Hall, Surrogate

Proved at Abergavenny on the fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three on the oath of the sole executor before the Surrogate