First I Will Order and direct that all such debts that I shall owe at the time of my decease my funeral Expences and the Charges of proving this my Will shall be paid and discharged by my Executors hereafter named out of my personal Estate
Also I give and devise unto my loving Wife Elizabeth and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural Life if she so long continue my Widow and unmarried All and every my Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever the same shall be lying and being she my said Wife keeping all and every the Buildings thereunto belonging in good and tenantable Repair
and from and after her decease or Marriage which shall first happen Then I do hereby give and devise One
Moiety or equal half part thereof with the Appurtenances unto my Daughter Elizabeth now the Wife of Edward Hall of
Hartfield in the County of Sussex Yeoman and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural Life
and from and after her decease I give and devise the same Moiety unto and amongst all and every the Child and
Children as well Sons as Daughters of my said Daughter Elizabeth and to their heirs and assigns forever equally to be divided between them share
and share alike as Tenants in common
And for want of such Child or Children Then I give and bequeath the same Moiety unto my own Right heirs forever
I also give and devise the other Moiety or equal half part thereof with the Appurtenances unto my Daughter Sarah and her Assigns
for and during the Term of her natural Life
and from and after her decease I give and devise the same Moiety unto and amongst all and
every the Child and Children as well Sons as Daughters of my said Daughter Sarah and to their heirs and Assigns forever equally to be
divided between them Share and Share alike as Tenants in Common
And for want of such Child or Children Then I give and devise the same unto my own Right Heirs forever
Also I give and bequeath unto my Brother Edward Gotty and Joseph Snelling of East Grinsted in Sussex Miller and to the Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor All and every my Goods Chattels and Personal Estate whatsoever which I shall be possessed of at the time of my Decease Upon Trust that they my said Executors or the Survivor of them or the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor shall and do with all convenient Speed after my decease make Sale of all and every my said Goods and Chattels which I shall dye possessed off or be in any ways intitled unto
And the Money arising by such Sale (after my just Debts funeral Expences and the Charge of proving this my Will shall be fully paid and Satisfied) Shall and do together with all my ready money put and place the same out at interest upon some Government or other real Security and after the same shall be so put and placed out shall and do yearly and every Year pay the Interest and produce thereof unto my said Loving Wife Elizabeth and her Assigns for and during the Term of her natural life if she so long continues my Widow by two half yearly Payments in the Year The first Payment thereof to begin and be made on the next half Year day after the same shall be so put and placed out at Interest as aforesaid
And from and after the decease or Marriage of my said Wife which shall first happen then I do hereby give and bequeath the Principal Money arising by the Sale of my said Goods and Chattels together with my ready Money so placed out at Interest as aforesaid and the Interest thereof unto my said Two Daughters Elizabeth the Wife of Edward Hall and Sarah Gotty and to their Executors and Administrators equally to be divided between them Share and Share alike
And I do hereby desire my said Trustees immediately to take an Inventory of all my Goods Chattels and Personal Estate after my decease
And I do hereby make nominate and Appoint them the said Edward Gotty and Joseph Snelling Joint Executors of this my last Will and
Testament desiring both of them to see the same duly performed
And I do hereby direct and order that my said Trustees and Executors shall not be accountable for the Loss of any of the Trust Money so to be put
out by them as aforesaid at Interest without the same is by his or their Wilfull Neglect or Default only And that they shall not be answerable or
Accountable for the acts or Deeds of either of them but each for his own Act or Deed And that they shall retain to him or themselves all such
reasonable Costs and Charges which they or either of them shall bear pay or be put unto upon account of the Trusts herein reposed in them or
either of them
And I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made and do declare this only to be my last Will and
Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament contained in two Sheets of Paper to each Sheet thereof set my hand and
Seal this thirtieth day of May One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty one _ Nicholas Gotty
(Attestation Clause)
Edward Gotty Junr _ Elizabeth Smart _ Geo Foster
Proved at London 11 February 1764
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