1843 Will - Catherine Reeve

Introduction

Dated: 22 Jun 1843, Hadstock, Essex
Probated: Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 12 Jul 1853
Recorded: Piece 2176, folio 97

Transcript

This is the last Will and Testament of me Catherine Reeve of Hadstock in the County of Essex Widow
I give and devise unto my sons Richard Reeve and Thomas Reeve all and singular my freehold or charterhold and leasehold messuages lands tenements hereditaments and premises whatsoever and wheresoever with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances to hold the same unto the said Richard Reeve and Thomas Reeve their heirs executors administrators and assigns upon trust to sell the same together or in parties? by public auction or private contract at such place and time and subject to such stipulations relative to the title or evidence of title or to the payment of the purchase money as they or the survivor of them or the heirs of each survivor may think expedient and to buy in any lot or lots at any auction and to ? or ? any contract for sale without being liable for any consequential loss and also to execute such instruments or assurances as shall be requisite for effecting and completing the sale of my said estates and I hereby declare that the receipt and receipts of the said Richard Reeve and Thomas Reeve or the survivor of them his heirs or assigns shall effectually surcharge the purchaser or purchasers of the said hereditaments from his or her purchase money respectively and that such purchaser or purchasers their his or her heirs and assigns shall not be answerable or accountable for the loss misapplication or nonapplication of his her or their purchase money or purchase monies respectively or any part thereof and the money to arise and be produced by the sale of my said freehold estates after payment ? of all expences attending the said sale I give and bequeath the same unto my said sons Richard Reeve and Thomas Reeve in equal proportions for their respective absolute use and benefit
Item I give and bequeath unto my grandson Bennett Charles Reeve son of the said Richard Reeve the sum of one hundred pounds and also the like sum of one hundred pounds to my granddaughter Ann Reeve daughter of the said Thomas Reeve and I give and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my goods chattels money and personal estate of every description unto my said sons Richard Reeve and Thomas Reeve subject to the payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses in equal shares and proportions for their respective absolute use and benefit and I appoint the said Richard Reeve and Thomas Reeve executors of this my will and revoke all former wills and testamentary dispositions by me heretofore made.
In testimony whereof I the said Catherine Reeve have to this my last will and testament set my hand the twenty second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Catherine (her x mark) Reeve

Signed and declared by the said Catherine Reeve as and for her last will and testament in the presence of us who in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
Ebenr Foster Junr
Job? Cambridge
Wm Lombe Brooke his clerk

Proved at London the 12th July 1853 before the worshipful Thomas Spricks Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of Richard Reeve and Thomas Reeve the sons the executors to whom admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.

Source

England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 (Ancestry)