Will of William Leppard of Mortlake 1840
This is the last will and Testament of me William Leppard
at present residing at the Hare
and
Hounds
Inn
East
Sheen
in the Parish
of
Mortlake
in the county of Surrey who being of sound and disposing mind memory and
understanding do give devise and bequeath the property I am possessed of
in the following manner first I do desire to be buried in a decent and
respectable manner which I leave to the discretion of my hereinafter
named Executors and then the money placed in the public funds in the reduced three per
cent annuities in the joint names of William Leppard
John
Blanchard
and Ann Chatting
after my just debts funeral testamentary
expenses are paid therefrom I so dispose of as follows. First I give and
bequeath unto my grandson
William
Leppard
and son of my deceased
son
Benjamin
Leppard
the sum of twenty pounds and then the remaining money I give and
bequeath unto my daughter
Ann
Chatting
one third part thereof for her own sole and separate use and free of all
control of her present or any future husband her sole receipt being a
full and sufficient discharge to my Executors for the payment thereof.
Another third part of such money I give and bequeath unto my son
John
Leppard
and the remaining third part of such
money I give and bequeath to my son in law
John
Blanchard
. I
also give and bequeath unto my said son
in
law
John
Blanchard
what articles of furniture I have in his house all my boxes wearing
apparel plate watch and all
other articles things and effects belonging to me as a token of regard
for the attention paid me in my afflictions.
And I also give and bequeath whatever sum or sums of money may be
due to me or attainable
from my Club held at the Rising
Sun
Inn
Tooting
Surry (sic) to be divided equally share and share alike between the said
Ann Chatting John Leppard and
John
Blanchard
the said Ann
Chatting’s
share thereof being free of all control of her present or any future
husband and her sole receipt being a full and sufficient discharge for
the same. And I do thereby
nominate constitute and appoint my son in law
John
Blanchard
and my son
John
Leppard
executors to this my
Will
. And I do hereby declare
this to be my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all other and
former wills by me made in the presence of the undersigned who in my
presence and the presence of each other borne witness to this my will
this twenty second day of October in the year of our Lord one
thousand
eight
hundred
and
forty.
The mark X of William Leppard xx Signed
sealed published and declared to be the last Will and Testament of
William Leppard in the presence of us the undersigned this 22nd
day of October 1840.
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