Will of Andrew Percival, of Westminster, County Middlesex, made February 20, 1695, and proved before Thomas Welham, Deputy Register, gave wife, Essex Percival, and cousin, Samuel Percival, all the money, goods, chattels and estate, real and personal, which he possessed in England (except his jewels, plate and household goods) in trust to be laid out in purchasing lands and tenements which should be vested in trustees and their heirs so that his said wife should enjoy the rents and profits until his son, Andrew Percival, should attain the age of twenty-one, or she should die, when they were to go to said Andrew; directed that in case his wife should be still living after Andrew should attain his majority that the estate should be charged with the yearly sum of £ 100. during her lifetime, which was to be paid to her; gave all of his lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all of his goods, chattels, and all of his estate, real and personal, in Carolina, or elsewhere, to his said cousin, Samuel Percival, and his said wife, Essex Percival, in trust for the purpose of raising from the income thereof £3000. as a portion for his daughter Mary Percival, to be paid to her when she should attain the age of twenty-one or marry with the consent of his said wife, if living, whichever should happen first, but in case of her death before attaining such age or of her marrying without such consent the said £3000. was to be equally divided among his children and his wife, the income therefrom going in the meantime, to his son, James Percival; directed that if his said wife should be still living after his said son Andrew should attain his majority that the estate in Carolina should be charged with the yearly payment of £100. English money to his said wife in London so long as she should live, by quarterly payments, from the time the said Andrew should attain his majority; gave daughter, Mary, an annuity of £50., to be paid quarterly, out of his Carolina estate for her education and maintenance until she should become of age or marry; appointed wife sole executrix and gave her all of his jewels, plate and household goods and declared that what he had divised to her was so divised in lieu of her dower.
Witnesses: Anthony Bromwick, Thomas Lake and Peter Marsh.
Jacob Puckle, Notary Public, attested, in London, September 13, 1697, that the copy sent to Charles Town for record was a true copy of the original.
Recorded August 21, 1701, by Henry Wigington, D.S.
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