Person:Thomas Whitaker (4)

February 22, 1737 - Will of Thomas Whitaker

Thomas Whitaker, of the Devizes, Co. Wilts, Batchelor, gives to sister-in-law Sarah Whitaker, of Westbury, £10; William Whitaker, her son, and Ann Dowding her daughter £50 each; Katherine, Margaret, Sarah and Mary, her other daughters, £10 each; Thomas and John Bernard, of Staffordton, £5 each; James, Henry & Mary, their brothers and sister, £10 each; three nieces, Mary Newman, Jane Bendy and Susannah Axford, £20 each; William & Mary, son and daughter of nephew Jonathan Aldridge, £5 each; William & Henry, sons of niece Lucy Hearn, £5 each; nephew William Whitaker, son of his brother John Whitaker, £10; niece Ann Enblen, £100; Mary, wife of Philip Whitaker, of Bratton, 2s 6d., to be paid weekly during her life by his executor, if the said Philip Whitaker pay the debt of £300, which he owes to him (Thomas), to his executor, but if not the said Mary to have nothing. No legacies will be paid unil a year after his death. All the rest of his estate, money, lands, bonds, rent, &c., to Henry Whitaker, of Bratton, sole executor. Dated 22 February 1737. [Proved at London 19 April 1738]