Will of Mary George

of Sandwich, Kent

First I nominate constitute and appoint my two dear Brothers George Reynolds and John Reynolds and my dear Sister Elizabeth Boys Executors and Executrix of this my Will
And I desire to be decently buried at their discretion in the Church of the said Parish of Eastry as near as may be to the remains of my late much lamented Husband Edward George Esquire

I give and bequeath unto my said Brothers George Reynolds and John Reynolds their Executors Admors. [Administrators] and Assigns the Sum of two thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain Upon Trust that they my said Brothers George Reynolds and John Reynolds or the Survivor of them or the Executors or Admors. of such Survivor do and shall as conveniently may be after my decease lay out and invest the said Sum of two thousand pounds in the Public Stocks or Funds of this Kingdom or upon good (and) real Securities in their or his names or name and do and shall pay the dividends Interest and Yearly Produce thereof and of the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the same shall be invested unto my said Sister Elizabeth Boys and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life

And from and after her decease do and shall pay and assign the said Sum of two thousand pounds and the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the same shall be invested unto and equally between my Nephews and Nieces Elizabeth Boys Edward Boys Mary Boys Catherine Boys and Jane Boys the five Children of my said Sister Elizabeth Boys share and share alike and to their respective Executors Admors.

Provided always and my mind and Will is that in case my said Nephews shall depart this life before he shall attain the age of twenty one years or in case my said Heirs or any or either of them shall depart this life before they or she shall attain the age of twenty one years or be married which shall first happen the parts or shares or part or share of them him or her so dying as well original as acting of and in the Sum of two thousand pounds and the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the same shall be invested shall go and be equally divided between the Survivors or others of them share and share alike if more than one and if but one then to such Survivor or other of such Children their his or her Executors Admors. and Assigns at the same time as their his or her original parts or shares or part or share

Also I give and bequeath unto my said Brother John Reynolds and my said Sister Elizabeth Boys their Executors Admors. and Assigns the Sum of two thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain Upon Trust that they my said Brother John Reynolds and my said Sister Elizabeth Boys or the Survivors of them or the Executors Admors. or Assigns of such Survivor do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease lay out and invest the said last mentioned Sum of two thousand pounds in the Public Stocks or Funds of this Kingdom or upon good real securities and do and shall pay the dividends Interest and Yearly Proceeds of such last mentioned Sum of two thousand pounds or of the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the same shall be invested unto my said Brother George Reynolds and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life and from and immediately after his decease do and shall pay such dividends Interest and Yearly Proceeds unto any Widow he may leave behind him and her Assigns for and during the term of her natural life

And from and after her decease do and shall pay and assign the said last mentioned Sum of Two thousand pounds or the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the sum shall be invested unto and equally between all and every the Children of my said Brother George Reynolds share and share alike and their respective Executors Admors. and Assigns
Provided always and my mind and will is that in case any Child or Children of my said Brother George Reynolds being a Son or Sons shall depart this life before he or they shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall depart this life before she or they shall attain the age of twenty one years or be married which shall first happen be parts or shares or part and share of them him or her so dying of and in the said last mentioned Sum of Two thousand pounds or the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the sum shall be invested shall go to and be equally divided between and amongst the Survivors or others of such Children if more than one share and share alike or if but one then to such Survivor or other of such Children their his or her Executors Admors. and Assigns at the same time as their his or her original parts or shares or part and share

Also I give and bequeath unto my said Brother George Reynolds and my said Sister Elizabeth Boys or the Survivor of them or the Executors Admors. or Assigns of such Survivor do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease lay out and invest the said last mentioned Sum of Two thousand pounds in the Public Stocks Funds or Securities of this Kingdom or upon good real Securities and do and shall pay the dividends Interest and Yearly Proceeds of such last mentioned Sum of Two thousand pounds or of the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the same shall be invested unto my said Brother John Reynolds and his Assigns for and during the term of his natural life

And from and immediately after his decease do and shall pay such dividends Interest and Yearly Proceeds unto any Widow he may leave behind him and her Assigns for and during the term of her natural life
And from and after her decease do and shall pay and assign the said last mentioned Sum of Two thousand pounds or the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the same shall be invested unto and equally between all and every the Children of my said Brother John Reynolds share and share alike and their respective Executors Admors. and Assigns

Provided always my mind and will is that in case any Child or Children of my said Brother John Reynolds being a Son or Sons shall depart this life before they shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a Daughter or Daughters shall depart this life before they shall attain the age of twenty one years or be married which shall first happen the parts or shares or part or share of them him or her so dying of and in the said last mentioned Sum of Two thousand pounds or the Stocks Funds or Securities in or upon which the same shall be invested shall go to and be equally divided be and amongst the Survivors or others of such Children if more than one share and share alike and if but one then to such Survivor or other of such Children their his or her Executors Admors. and Assigns at the same time as their his or her original parts or shares or part or share

Provided always and my will and mind further is that in case all the said Children of my said Brother George Reynolds and John Reynolds respectively or of any or either of them shall depart this life before he or they being a Son or Sons shall attain the Age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain the Age of twenty one years or be married which shall first happen or in case my said Brother John Reynolds shall have no Child or Children then the Legacies or Legacy of Sums or Sum of Two thousand pounds hereinbefore by me given In Trust for any of them my aforesaid Sister and Brothers whose issue shall so fail as aforesaid together with whatever shall have accrued thereto shall go and be divided between the others of them my said Sister and Brothers if more than one equally or if but one then to such one of them and shall be invested In Trust for such others or other of them my said Sister and Brothers and their his or her said Widows and Children in the same manner as their his or her original Legacies or Legacy of two thousand pounds

Also I give and bequeath unto my said Brother George Reynolds and John Reynolds and my said Sister Elizabeth Boys and Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds the Widow of my last Brother William Reynolds Esquire deceased the Sum of Three thousand three hundred and thirty three Pounds six shillings and eight pence Stock part of the Stock in the three pounds per centum assured Annuities now standing in my name in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England Upon Trust that they the said George Reynolds John Reynolds Elizabeth Boys and Elizabeth Reynolds or the Survivors of them and the Trustee and Trustees to be appointed under the power hereinafter contained do and shall half yearly as the same shall be receivable by power of attorney duly executed permit and suffer to be received by her the said Elizabeth Reynolds all the dividends and annual Profit of the last mentioned Trust Fund for and during the term of her natural life the first of the said half yearly dividends to commence and be received by her the said Elizabeth Reynolds at the time appointed for the payment of the said dividends which shall next happen after my decease however soon

And I do hereby declare that my only reason for placing the name of the said Elizabeth Reynolds as a Trustee in this Trust is that I wish to obviate all trouble to her in her old Age by any unforeseen event happening from which the channel? when she is to receive? the beneficial in trust given her by this my Will might be changed

And from and immediately after the decease of the said Elizabeth Reynolds I do hereby will and declare that the said last mentioned Trust Stock shall sink into and become part of the residuum of my Personal Estate and Effects And I do order and direct the transfer thereof accordingly

And I give and bequeath the Sum of three hundred Pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to each of them my said Nephew and Nieces Elizabeth Boys Edward Boys Mary Boys Catherine Boys and Jane Boys

But it is my will and intention that my said Sister Elizabeth Boys shall receive the Interest of such several sums of three hundred pounds so given unto my said Nephew and Nieces respectively until my said Nephew shall respectively attain the age of twenty one Years and until my said Nieces shall respectively attain the age of twenty one Years or be married which shall first happen when their said Legacies shall be paid to them respectively

Provided always and my mind and will further is that it shall be lawful to and for my said Brothers George Reynolds and John Reynolds the Survivor or their Executors or admors. of such Survivor with the consent and approbation of my said Sister in case in case she shall be living or if deceased then at their own discretion during the minority of my said Nephew to lay out the said Sum of three hundred pounds hereinbefore by me given to my said Nephew in part of the expence of educating him at either of the two Universities of Oxford or Cambridge or in placing him out in any profession or trade

And the better to enable him to support the prospect and necessary expences of an education at either of those Universities I do hereby give and bequeath to him my said Nephew Edward Boys the further Sum of four hundred pounds of like lawful money of Great Britain to be paid and payable him either by Instalments of one hundred Pounds a Year the first payment to commence at the expiration of the first year to be intended from the day of matriculation at such University as he shall be entered or in such other manner and at such other time or times as my said Brothers George Reynolds and John Reynolds or the Survivor of them or the of the Executors or Admors. of such Survivor with the consent and approbation of my said Sister Elizabeth Boys in case she shall be living or if dead then at their or his own direction shall think best

Also I give and bequeath the Sum of one hundred Pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to the Trustees of the Charity School Sandwich to be appropriated in the way they may think just beneficial for the School

Also I give and bequeath the Sum of forty Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain to be laid out by my Executors and Executrix in the purchase of Bread and Coals to be distributed according to their discretion or amongst such of the poor Inhabitants of the three Parishes in Sandwich as they shall think fit
And the Sum of twenty Pounds of like Money to be laid out by my Executors and Executrix in the purchase of Bread and Coals to be distributed according to their discretion amongst such of the poor Inhabitants of the Parish of Eastry as they think fit

Also I give and bequeath an Annuity or Yearly Sum of ten Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain to Elizabeth Nisbett the daughter of the late Nehemiah Nesbitt Rector of Tunstall and her Assigns for and during the term of her natural life, such Annuity to be paid by four Quarterly Payments of Two Pounds and Ten Shillings each on the sixth day of January the sixth day of April the sixth day of July and the eleventh day of October in each Year and to begin on the first of those Quarter days which shall happen next after my decease

Also I give and bequeath all my Wearing Apparel unto my said Sister Elizabeth Boys

All my Real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and all the rest residue and remainder of my Personal Estate and Effects after payment of my just debts Funeral and Testamentary Charge sand Expences I give devise and bequeath unto my said Brothers George Reynolds and John Reynolds and my said Sister Elizabeth Boys equally to be divided between them and to their respective Heirs Executors Admors. and Assigns for ever

Provided always and I declare my mind and Will to be that if any one of the Trustees nominated and appointed in the my Will for the respective purposes hereinbefore mentioned or to be appointed as is hereinbefore mentioned shall happen to die or be desirous of being discharged from or shall reuse or decline or be incapable to act in the Trusts hereby in them respectively reposed as aforesaid before the said Trusts shall be fully executed then and in such case and when and so often as the same shall happen it shall and may be lawful to and for

And I do hereby will and direct and expressly order the then surviving or continuing Trustees by any act or deed Instrument or Instruments in writing to be by them sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by two or more credible Witnesses from time to time to nominate substitute or appoint some other fit and proper person to be a Trustee in the place or stead of every such Trustee so dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing declining or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid

And all the Trust Monies and Premises the Trustee or Trustees respectively whereof shall die or direct to be discharged or refuse or decline or be incapable to act as aforesaid shall be thereupon with all convenient speed conveyed assigned and transferred in such sort and manner an so as the same shall and may be lawfully and effectually vested in the person and persons so to be appointed as aforesaid either solely or jointly with the surviving or continuing Trustees as occasion shall require Upon the Trusts and for the Intents and Purposes hereinbefore expressed and declared of and concerning the said Trust Monies and Premises or such of them as shall be then subsisting undetermined and capable of taking effect and every person so to be appointed as aforesaid shall have all the powers and authorities of the Trustee in whose room he shall be substituted

Provided always and I hereby further declare that the several Trustees hereby nominated and appointed or to be nominated and appointed as aforesaid and each and every of them and the Heirs Executors Admors. and Assigns of them and any of them shall be charged and chargeable respectively only for such Monies as they shall respectively actually receive by virtue of the trusts hereby in them reposed And that any one or more of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the others or other of them or for the Acts Deeds Receipts Payments and Defaults of the other or others of them but each shall be answerable for his own Acts Deeds Receipts Payments and Defaults only

And that they any or either of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any involuntary loss or losses And also that it shall and may be lawful for them and each and every of them by and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of this my Will or of the Trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse himself and themselves respectively and also to allow to his and her Co Trustee and Co Trustees all costs charges damages and expences which they any or either of them shall or may suffer sustain or expend disburse be at default unto in or about the execution of this my Will or of the Trusts aforesaid or any way in relation thereto

And lastly revoking all former and other Wills by me at any time heretofore made I the said Mary George do declare this only to be my last Will and Testament
and In Witness thereof do to the first five sheets thereof set my hand and to this sixth and last sheet thereof set my hand and seal this twelfth day of February in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty
Mary George

Signed sealed published and declared by the said Testator Mary George as and for her last Will & Testament in our presence who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our Names as Witnesses
George Garrett Solicitor, Sandwich, Kent
Tho: Coleman his Clerk
Mary Dewell Servant to the said Mrs. Mary George

Proved at London 18th May 1820 before the Worshipful John Danberry Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of George Reynolds and John Reynolds Esquires Brothers and Elizabeth Boys Widow the Sister the Executors to whom Admon. [Administration] was granted having been first sworn duly to administer

Notes:
See also PROB 11/1513/110: Will of Edward George, Gentleman of Statenborough in the Parish of Eastry, Gentleman, dated 5th October 1808 and Proved 7th July 1810

Mary George, Widow, was buried at St. Mary the Blessed Virgin, Eastry on 5th May 1820, aged 50. Mary George was living in Sandwich at the time of her death.
Husband Edward George was buried on 26th April 1810 aged 69, “Esquire of Statenborough” at Eastry.

Edward George married at St. Mary the Blessed Virgin, Eastry on 14th December 1790 to Mary Reynolds.
He was: Ba., otp., Gentleman. She was: Minor, Sp., of St. Clement, Sandwich. Her Mother Mary Reynolds consents (her father John Reynolds being dead). Witnesses were James George and (mother) Mary Reynolds. (Where Ba = bachelor; Sp. = Spinster, and otp. = of this parish.)

Mary Reynolds was christened 22 Jul 1764 at St. Nicholas, Sholden, d. of John and Mary Reynolds.
Mary’s Brothers George and John Reynolds were christened: George Reynolds: 2 Feb 1769 at St. Mary, Eastry; John Reynolds 9 Oct 1774 at St. Nicholas, Sholden. There are numerous other siblings christened at Sholden and Eastry.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 8th February 2020. All rights waived for personal use – BUT please quote source and reference.

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