« I James Cary Citizen and Salter of London ... I doe will and appoint that all my personall estate whatsoever shall bee divided into three equal and indifferent parts and should out of which said third part and share of all and every my said personall Estate whatsoever to me belonging at the time of decease I do grant and will unto Ann my dear and loving wife ... one other of which third part and share of all and every of my said personall estate whatsoever to mee belonging at the time of my decease I doe give will and bequeath unto and amongst my fower children Jane[,] Mary[,] Robert and Edith Cary betweene them to bee equally divided parted and shared part and part alike and to bee respectively paid them and followeth (that is to say) to my sonn at his respective age of one and twenty yeares And for my daughters at their respective and severall ages of one and twenty years or dayes of marriage which shall first happen ... And where I have already given and advanced my now eldest sonn James Cary suitable and proportionable to my estate and have otherwise given in marriage with my daughter Ann now the wife of Mr. John Mitchell Gentleman to her late husband Mr. Ralph Mallory deceased the sum of seven hundred pounds and upward and alfo to my daughter Elizabeth in marriage with Mr. William Hampton the sum of eight hundred pounds which is above their proportion of and unto my estate yet in token of my reall affection to them I give and bequeath unto my said sonn James Cary and to my said daughters Anne and Elizabeth the sum of tenn pounds or the same to bee paid within twelve months after my decease and added to the residue and remainder of my said one third part of my estate that is of my owne dispose ... Item I give and bequeath unto my dear and loving wife Anne Cary and to my said children James Cary[,] Anne Mitchell[,] Elizabeth Hampton[,] Jane[,] Mary[,] Robert and Edith Cary and to each and every of them tenn pounds a peece to buy them mourning .... » [excerpts from transcription by Thomas Hamm]
Description: Will of James Cary, Salter of London / Date: 20 December 1694 / Catalogue reference: PROB 11/423 / Dept: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury / Series: Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers / Piece: Name of Register: Box Quire Numbers: 225 - 265 > Downloaded from The National Archives > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline