Page 5, Will, J Dawson, 6 Jan 1694/5; Will,J Bell, 1693/4; Inventory, J Dawson, 22 Aug 1695
| In the name of God: I John Dawson of Studdon in ye parish of Allandaile | ||||
| John } | & County of Northumberland being sick in body but in good & Pfect remembrance Doe | |||
| Dawson } | make this my last Will in manner & form following: First I bequeath my Soul | |||
| to Almighty God my Redeemer hopeing to receive full pardon of all my Sinns | ||||
| Inps I give unto my Nephew Thomas Dawson of Studdon Sixteen pounds | ||||
| being in Robert Watsons hands of Studdon: Item I give unto my Neece | ||||
| Annas Dawson of Studdon Eighteen pounds which Thomas Dawson of Burnfoot | ||||
| is oweing me: Item I give unto Margaret Dawson of Whitehill five Shillings | ||||
| Item I give unto John Dawson of Whitehill One shilling: Item I give unto | ||||
| William Cragg of Whitehill five Shillings Item I give unto Mary Dawson | ||||
| of Rowntree Stobb One Shilling Item I give unto John F[u?]ller One Shilling | ||||
| Item I make Annas Dawson Executor of this my last Will: In Witnesse | ||||
| Whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & Seale this Sixth day of January | ||||
| 1694/5: Leonard Spark, Thomas Dawson, Robert Watson | ||||
| see ye invry below | ||||
| John Dawson | ||||
| John Bell | ||||
| In the name of God Amen Jo Bell of Hexham: & being in good health | ||||
| John } | of body & of sound & Pfect mind & memory praise be therefore given to Almighty God | |||
| Bell } | Doe make & ordeine this my last Will & Testamt in manner & form following (that | |||
| is to say) First & principally I comend my Soul into ye hands of Almighty God | ||||
| hopeing through ye merritts death & passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full & free | ||||
| pardon & forgivenesse of all my Sins to Inherritt Everlasting life & my body I committ | ||||
| to ye Earth to be decently burryed at ye discretion of my Executor hereafter named | ||||
| Jos: Bell my Second Sonn living at psent, as touching ye disposition of all such | ||||
| Goods & Chattells as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give & dispose | ||||
| thereof as followeth: First I will that my debts & funerall shall be payd & | ||||
| Discharged: Item I leave in consideration of that my horse & two Cows & rest of | ||||
| my Goods: Item I give unto Jos: Bell Executor Twenty pounds upon Two Bonds | ||||
| that Jo: Armstrong in Cock[s?]hoe* Farmer owes me & Robt Nicholson in ye Markett | ||||
| Street owes me Talor: Item I give unto my Son William Bell the Wheat Crop | ||||
| in ye Greens as a Legacy |
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| Item that my Son Jos: Bell shall give to Thomas Cragg Son of Wm Cragg | ||||
| Forty Shillings as a Legacy Six Yeares after my decease, And if Thomas | ||||
| Cragg Sonn of Wm Cragg chance to dye that ye moneys come to Jos: Bell | ||||
| back againe, and Jos: Bell shall have a Hay Stack in Orchard Gape & half | ||||
| Work Gear: Item that my Son Jos: Bell shall give to Jane Nicholson Daughter | ||||
| of Robert Nicholson forty Shillings as a Legacy Two Yeares after my decease | ||||
| & if Jane Nicholson chance to dye that it fall to Elizabeth Nicholson ye Younger | ||||
| Sister: Item I leave all ye household goods to my Wifes disposition & necessari[es?]* | ||||
| for ye house at her disposition here nameing ye person Jos: Bell full & | ||||
| So[l]e* Executor of this my last Will & Testament: And I desire that my | ||||
| body may be burryed in the C. And I Doe hereby revoke disannull | ||||
| & make voyd all former Will & Testaments by me heretofore made | ||||
| In Witness whereof I the sd John Bell to this my last Will and | ||||
| Testament being conteined in One Sheet of Paper & thereunto I sett | ||||
| my hand to ye topp & thereof sett my Seale in ye Year er: 1693/ 4 | ||||
| Signed Sealed in psents of us: Cuthbert Elwood, Geo Rewcastle | ||||
| John Bell | ||||
| A true & Pfect Invry of all & singular ye Goods & Chattells whereof | ||||
| John Dawson late of Studdon in ye parish of Allandale in ye County of | ||||
| Northumbland & Dioces of York Yeom decd Dyed possessed, Exhibited by Ann*[*] | ||||
| Dawson Spinster his Neece & Executrix of his last Will & Testament | ||||
| the Twenty Second day of August Ao Dm 1695 | ||||
| £ s d | ||||
| Inp His Purse & Apparrell | 02: 00: 00 | |||
| Item Oweing to ye decd by Robt Watson of Studdon | 16: 00: 00 | |||
| Item Oweing to him by Thomas Dawson of Burnfoote | 18: 00: 00 | |||
| Tot | 36: 00: 0 | |||
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