In the first place give bequeath direct limit and appoint the sum of ffifty pounds of
lawful money of Great Britain unto Edward Harrison of Deal aforesaid Mariner
Brother of my late deceased Husband Thomas Harrison to be paid to him the said
Edward Harrison within six months next after my decease
And in case the said Edward Harrison shall happen to die in my Life time then I give bequeath
direct limit and appoint the same sum of ffifty pounds unto and amongst all and every the
children of the said Edward Harrison which shall be living at the time of my decease equally
to be divided between them share and share alike and to their several and respective Executors
Administrators and Assigns
and as to all and every such sum and sums of money
whatsoever as are now invested or intended to be invested in any of the Publick Stocks or
ffunds in the Names of them the said Timothy Bret and Elias Bird as Trustees named in
the said Marriage Articles and the Stocks or ffunds in which the same Money is or shall
be placed at the time of my decease and also all and every my Leasehold Messuages or
Tenements Buildings and Ground with their and every of their Appurtenances Together
with all Mortgages and Terms of years and all other Goods Chattels Monies and personal
Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and of what kind or nature soever the same may be
whereto I am in any wise intitled in Law or Equity or which I have any Power or
Authority in any manner of wise to dispose of and all my Estate Right and Interest therein
(subject to the payment of the before mentioned Legacy of ffifty pounds so by me given
and appointed as aforesaid)
I do hereby give bequeath direct limit and appoint the same unto my two ffriends the said
Timothy Bret and Elias Bird their Executors and Administrators Upon Trust nevertheless
that they shall and do Assign transfer pay apply and dispose of the same premisses so to
them given directed and appointed and every part thereof unto or to and for the only use
and Benefit of my Daughter Ann Harrison Spinster being my only child now living
and to her Executors Administrators and Assigns
and upon this further Trust that in the
mean Time from and after my decease until the said Trust premisses shall be so assigned
transferred and paid as aforesaid all the Near yearly Dividends Interest and produce Rents
Issues and Profits thereof and of every part thereof shall from time to time as they shall
be received be paid and applied for and towards the Maintenance Education and
bringing up of my said Daughter Ann Harrison at the Discretion of them the said
Timothy Bret and Elias Bird
And it is my Will and Mind and I do hereby direct and appoint that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Timothy Bret and Elias Bird their Executors and Administrators in the first place by and out of the said Trust premisses to deduct and reimburse themselves all such Costs Charges Expences and Damages as they or any of them shall pay expend be sent unto suffer or sustain for or by reason of the Trusts hereby in them reposed or the Management or Execution thereof or any thing relating thereunto and that they shall not be charged or chargeable with or accountable for any more of the said Trust Moneys than they shall respectively actually receive nor with or for any Loss which shall happen without their wilful Defaults nor the one of them for the other of them or for the Acts Deeds Receipts Disbursements or Defaults the one of the other and I do hereby so far as I may or can make constitute authorize and appoint the said Timothy Bret and Elias Bird Executors of this my last Will and Testament
And lastly I hereby revoke all former Wills by me made[.] In Witness whereof I the said
Ann Roby have to this my last Will and Testament contained in three sheets of paper
affixed together to the two first sheets thereof set my Hand and to this third and last sheet
thereof my Hand and Seal the day and year first before written. Ann Roby. Signed sealed
published and declared by the said Ann Roby as and for her last Will and Testament in
the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto in her
presence and at her request —
T White. — Jno Middleton. John Middleton, Junr.
This Will was proved at London the thirtieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine before the Worshipful Andrew Coltee Ducarel[?] Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the Right Worshipful George Hay Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of Timothy Brett Esquire the surviving Executor named in the said Will to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased limited so far and as concerns certain Trust Monies and Annuities and the Stocks ffunds and Securities in which the same are invested and the Dividends and Interest due and to grow due thereon and the profits and produce thereof and also in and to the several Leasehold Messuages or Tenements or parts of Messuages or Tenements at Deal and the principal sum of three hundred and fifty pounds secured by Mortgage and the Arrears of Rent due and to grow due for the said Leasehold Messuages and also the Arrears of Interest due and to grow due on the aforesaid principal sum of three hundred and fifty pounds which the said deceased by virtue of Articles of Agreement had a right to dispose of and hath disposed of by her Will accordingly and all benefit and advantage to be had received and taken therefrom but no further or otherwise or in any other manner whatsoever having been first sworn duly to administer.
Clerks Copy, Last Will and Testament of our ancestor Ann Pye Harrison Roby, 1715- 1769. She was the widow of mariner Thomas Harrison and mother of Ann Harrison, her only surviving child, who married John Turner who became a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Ann Pye Harrison Roby was the maternal grandmother of Charles Pye Turner and the last of the Pyes in our family tree.
Ann Pye, only daughter of Royal Navy lieutenant John Pye and Ann Weller Pye, was baptised at St Leonard, the parish church of Deal, Kent, on 18 November 1715. She married mariner Thomas Harrison at St. George, the chapel of ease to St Leonard, on 21 September 1736. Following the death of Thomas Harrison in 1756, widow Ann Pye Harrison married tallow chandler George Roby at St Peter Cornhill, London, on 28 July 1760. She was buried at St Leonards, Deal, on 15 August 1769
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