| loveing Wife Dorothy Johnson And my Will & pleasure is | ||||
| that my dear & loveing Wife shall have & receive the | ||||
| pduct ariseing thereby or thereout untill ye same shall | ||||
| become soe due & payable as aforesd And my Will [&] | ||||
| pleasure is that my Debts & Funerall expences be full[y] | ||||
| pd And my further Will is |
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| constitute & appoint my sd dear & loveing Wife | ||||
| Dorothy Johnson Sole Execix of this my last Will | ||||
| & Testamt And I doe hereby Revoke all former & | ||||
| other Wills In Witness whereof I have to this my | ||||
| sd last Will & Testamt set my hand & Seale this Sixth | ||||
| day of April in ye yeare of our Lord 1705: Signed | ||||
| Sealed Published & Declared to be ye last Will & | ||||
| Testamt of ye sd Timothy Johnson in ye psence of us | ||||
| Jo Heron, Jo Cooke, Rich Heron. | ||||
| Timothy Johnson | ||||
| In the name of God Amen ye Ninetenth day of March 1700 | ||||
| I Nicholas Walker of Hexham in ye County of Northumberland | ||||
| being sick in body but of perfect memory blessed be God doe mak[e] | ||||
| & ordain this my last Will & Testament in manner & forme | ||||
| following First I give my soule to Almighty God firmly beleiveing | ||||
| through ye mercy laid up in Jesus Christ to have a free & perfect | ||||
| remisson of all my sins for which I am from ye bottom of my heart | ||||
| penitent And as for my worldly Estate which God hath been | ||||
| pleased to bestow upon me I give & bequeath as follows First | ||||
| I give unto my son Edward my now dwelling house with all my | ||||
| Tanning fats* & that close or parcell of ground called ye Burridge | ||||
| with ye barn thereunto belonging, Item I give unto my son Joseph | ||||
| ye close called ye Loaning dikes Item I give to each of my Sons | ||||
| children Edward & Joseph five shillings apeice to be paid by my |
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