Will of Elimelech Edmonds as
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ELIMELECH EDMONDS
This is the last Will and Testament
of me Elimelech Edmonds of Bradford in the County of Wilts Clothier waith revoking all other wills by me at any time heretofore
made I hereby make as follows First
I will and direct that all my just debts and Funeral and Testamentary expenses
be fully paid and discharged by my Executors herein after named and appointed
out of my Personal Estate and Effects
I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Ann Edmonds and her
Assignees for and during the term of her natural life one Annuity or tloar
yearly sum of one hundred and fifty pounds to be paid and payable by my
Executors hereinafter named by two even
or equal half yearly payments that is to say on the twenty fourth day of June
and twenty first day of December in each and every year that first payment
thereof to begin and be made on sight of the said days of payment as shall first
happen after my docoavo
which said Annuity so yearly sum of one hundred and fifty pounds I do hereby charge on my Residuary
Personal Estate in the hands of my Executors and Residuary Legatees but my
will and arauing
is that my Executors and Residuary Legatees shall not be rouipelles to set apart and
invest any part of my said Residuary Personal Estate and Effects as a Security
for the Su
payment of the said Annuity but shall so long as they may think proper be at
liberty to use the whole of my said Residuary Personal Estate in their Trade
and Business in all respects as tho the said Annuity were u of craryous heerrou on their
giving to my said Wife their joint and several Bond for the due payment
thereof And as to all the ast cosiduc
and ctuduide
of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and whosoever and of what nature Sins or quality
soever the same may be or consist I give devise and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto
my two Sons John Edmonds and Ezekiel Edmonds their Sotirs Executors Administrators and
Assignees for ever
to or equally divided between them share and share alike as Tenants
in common and not as joint tenants
And I do hereby constitute and appoint my said two Sons Executors of
this my Will In Witness whereof to
this my Will written on two sheets of paper I have to the first sheet thereof
set my hand and to this second and last sheet thereof my hand and seal this
thirtieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty five Elimelech Edmonds (ss)
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Testator Elimelech
Edmonds as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his
presence at his request and in the presence of card other have subscribed our names
as witnesses attesting the execution thereof
// Joseph Gordon Jones //
David Marshman // John Bush //
Proved at London 28th
July 1829 before the Judge by the oaths of John Edmonds and Ezekiel
Edmonds his sons as Executors to whom Administration was granted having been
first divoru / by
Commission / only to Administer //