Rider Will 1757

Will of Isaac Rider

of Greenwich, Kent


Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury Prob11/827
Submitted by Ros Dunning
The last Will and Testament of me Isaac Rider Surgeon at Greenwich Hospital in the County of Kent made the fourteenth day of September in the twenty first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Second and in the Year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and forty eight

I give to my grand Daughter Alice Rider Daughter, and at present, only Child of my only Son Isaac Rider the sum of two thousand Pounds when she shall arrive at the Age of Eighteen Years, or sooner if she shall Marry with her Father�s consent, and one thousand Pounds more at the Death of her Father, both which thousand Pounds are to be paid out of the Stock I have in the fund commonly called Old South Sea Annuities, and that the interest of one thousand Pounds of the said South Sea Annuity Stock shall be laid out for the use of my said grand Daughter every Year during her Minority
and I desire that the said two thousand Pounds hereby disposed of may not be remov�d or altered from the Fund it is now in, on any account whatever, but be made over to her from the place it is now in, in the method and the times above mentioned

I desire to be buried at Lee nigh Black Heath in a decent but very private manner
and I desire that illiam Bell first Commissioner for sick and hurt Seamen etc. together with my Son Isaac may see my desire with regard to my grand Daughter executed

All the rest and residue of my Estate whatever either real or personal Books Bonds Household Furniture Debts etc. I give unto my Son Isaac Rider hereby appointing him whole and sole Executor of this my last Will being all written with my own hand and Signed with my own Name and as I usually sign other Writings the day and year above mentioned I Rider

26 January 1757 Appearance by John Chapel of East Greenwich Gentleman and Thomas Gould of the same place servant as to manner and character of the deceased�s handwriting
Proved at London 26 January 1757


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