William Teare, 1719

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16                   KK Andrews 
This is affirmed to be the last Will & Testament of 
Wm Tear, who departed this life about ye 27th Feb: 
1718, being in perfect mind & memory at the making thereof.   
First, he committed his soul to God, & his body 
to Christian burial.   
Item, He left to his son John Tear twenty shillings yt 
were in ye mortgaged land called Boley Hermod, 
and the looms.   
Item, He left to his daughter Jane the chest that 
was in the camber, with his part of the bed & a 
blanket, & his part of the goods, yt is, yarn & flax 
yt were in the house.   
Item, He left to his daugr Margt a shilling yt was 
due to her of her mother’s goods, & six pence 
Legacy with a yearling or tannid[?].   
Item, He left to his daugr Margery six pence legacy, 
& an old coverled.   
Item, He left to his two sons Patrick and William 
six pence each as Legacy.   
To his son Thomas Tear half an heifer.  
To the witnesses six pence each.  
Lastly, He constituted & appointed his two children 
John & Jane Tear his true& joint Execrs of all the 
rest of his goods movable & immovable whatever.   
The Testator further declared that the land came b 
a free gift, & that it was inveriture[?], & he left it 
as he found it.   
Testes: 
John Lace, 
Wm Lace, jurati.                      

The Execrs sworn in form of Law.  
Probatum est & Solvit 12d.    
Pledges, the witnesses of the will, secundem forman legis.                            

June 29, 1719:  
Margery Tear does hereby acknowledge to have recd the 
legacy left to herself, as also the legacy & shilling due to 
her sister Margaret for which she acquits the Execrs forever.  
Witness her mark Margery Teare MT.  
Before me, Chas Watleworth Official.”