Page 4, Will, George Dawson, 23 November 1685; Will, Thomas Robinson, 2 January 1694/5
| In the name of God Amen The Twenty Third of November in the Year of | ||||
| George} | our Lord God 1685 : I George Dawson of ye Hope in ye parish of Allandaile & in the | |||
| Dawson} | County of Northumberland Yeom being sick of body but of good & pfect memory | |||
| thanks be to |
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| this Transitory life & that all flesh must Yeild unto death when it shall please God | ||||
| to call Doe make constitute ordeine & Declare this my last Will & Testamt in | ||||
| manner & form following revokeing & annulling by these psents all & every | ||||
| Testamt & Testamts Will & Wills heretofore by me made & Declared either | ||||
| by Word or Writeing & this is to be taken onely for my last Will & | ||||
| Testamt & none other & first being penitent & sorry from ye bottome of | ||||
| my heart for my Sins past most humbly desireing forgivenesse for the | ||||
| same : I give & committ my Soul unto Almighty God my Saviour | ||||
| & Redeemer to whom & by ye merritts of Jesus Christ I trust & beleive | ||||
| assuredly to be saved & to have full remmission & forgivenesse of all my | ||||
| Sins & that my Soul with my body at ye generall day of Resurrection | ||||
| shall rise againe wth Joy & through ye merritts of Christs death & passion | ||||
| possess & inheritt ye Kingdome of Heaven ppaired for his Elect & chosen | ||||
| & my body to be Burryed in such place where it shall please my Execut | ||||
| hereafter named to appoint ; And now for ye settling of my Temporall | ||||
| Estate & such Goods Chattells as it hath pleased God farr above my | ||||
| desert to bestow upon me I doe order give & Dispose the same in mann | ||||
| & form following:- Item I give unto my Daughter Margaret ye Sume of | ||||
| Seaventy pounds : Item I give unto my Daughter Elizabeth ye Sume | ||||
| of Sixty pounds : Item I give unto my Son John ye Sume of One pound | ||||
| Item I give unto my Sonn George ye Sume of One pound : Item I | ||||
| give unto my Grand Child Ann Dawson ye Sume of Tenn Shillings | ||||
| Item More I give unto my Sonn George Six Oak Trees : Item I leave | ||||
| my loveing Wife Executor of all my Goods & Chattells moveable & |
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| immoveable whatsoever : Memorandm: If it happen or fall out that I | ||||
| make not my Daughter Ann a portion out of my Land That she | ||||
| shall have Tenn pounds of her sister Margarett & Tenn pounds of | ||||
| her Sister Elizabeth In Witnesse whereof I have hereunto sett | ||||
| my hand & Seale ye day & Year above written : Signed Sealed and | ||||
| Delivered in ye psents of Us : Tho: Stephenson Nicholas Peirson. | ||||
| George Dawson | ||||
| In the name of God Amen I Thomas Robinson of Batts hill in the | ||||
| Thomas } | parish of Allandaile & County of Northumberland Yeom being in sound & | |||
| Robinson} | pfect mind & memory but out of health in body praise be therefore | |||
| given to Almighty God for it Doe make & ordeine this my last Will & | ||||
| Testament in manner & form following (that is to say) First I comend | ||||
| my Soul into ye hand of Almighty God hopeing through the merritts | ||||
| death & passion of my Saviour Christ to have full & free pardon | ||||
| & forgivenesse of all my Sinns & to Inherritt Eternall life & my | ||||
| body I committ to ye Earth to be decently Burryed at ye discretion | ||||
| of my Executor hereafter named & as touching ye disposition of all | ||||
| such Temporall Estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow | ||||
| upon me I give & Dispose thereof as followeth : First I will & require | ||||
| that my debts & funerall Charges shall be payd & Discharged : Item | ||||
| I give unto my Sonn John ye One half of my Goods & Chattells | ||||
| moveable & immoveable & ye other half to my Wife Mary whereby | ||||
| I make her my full & whole Executrix of this my last Will & Testamt | ||||
| In Witnesse whereof I have hereunto putt my hand & Seale this | ||||
| Second day of January Anno Dni 1694/5 Signed Sealed & Delivered | ||||
| In ye psence of Us Willm: Robinson, Thomas Harrison Robt Baxter. | ||||
| Tho: Robinson. | ||||
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