Jony Tear als Lace, 1714

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27               KK Andrews
This is affirmed to be the last will and testament 
of Jony Tear als Lace, who departed this life 
about ye 11th day of Augt 1714, being in perfect 
mind & memory at the making thereof.   
First, she committed her sould to God and her 
body to Christian burial.  
It, she left to her son & heir Daniel Tear her halfe 
of the husbandry gears with a quarter part of ye 
whole crop, and an ox.   
It., She left to her Daughters Alice & Averick 
a cow betwixt them; besides she left to Alice 
two pewter dishes, a fledge & blanket, with a 
press[?] & a boulster.   And to Averick a 
pewter dish, and a chest with a kerchief, and 
another to Alice also.   
She left to her daughter Nelly Tear a chest & a 
kerchief, with half an heifer.   
It., She left to her son Simon half an heifer.   
It, She left to her son Philip half an heifer, with 
half a croft called The White Boy’s Croft, 
of four pence rent.   
It., she left her half of the bees in ye garden to 
her own children.  
Itm, She left to her husband a feather bed and 
the cloaths thereunto belonging.  
It, She left to her daughters Alice & Averick a 
brood goose to each.  
It, She left six pence apiece to ye witnesses.   
Lastly, She constituted and appointed her husband 
John Tear her sole & lawful Execr of all the rest 
of her goods movable & immovable whatever.  
And whatever goods her children had of their 
own she left the sd goods to themselves respectively.  
Testes: 
Cath: Tear als Crenilt, 
Jony Tear als Kewn, juratae.                         

The Execr sworn in form of Law.  
Probatum est & Solvit 12d.                    

The goods of ye youngest child Nelly are in the 
hands of ye Execr (which is an half an heifer & 
a chest & a kerchief) and hath give pledge John 
Crebbin according t Law.   

Note: 
ye sd Nelly hath her choice of half ye heifer or 
ten shillings when she comes to age