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Will of Simon Jones

Date of will 27 March 1731
Status Husbandman 
Abode when will written Hanslap, Buckinghamshire
Date of probate 27 April 1733
Summary of will Left money to several children and a grandchild, with balance of estate left jointly to wife Elizabeth and son Henry, with proviso that they must care for son John who was both deaf and dumb, and additional provision for John if he survives the others. 
Persons mentioned in will:
Name Relation Abode Role Notes
William Jones Son    beneficiary   father of Thomas; left £5 
Mary Gadesdon Daughter  Stoke Goldington  beneficiary   wife of William; left £10 
Elizabeth Jones Daughter    beneficiary   left £10 
Elizabeth Jones Wife    beneficiary executor   left half-share in remainder of estate 
Henry Jones Son    beneficiary executor   left half-share in remainder of estate 
John Jones Son    beneficiary   deaf & dumb 
Thomas Jones Grandson    beneficiary   son of William; left £5 
William Gadesdon Son in Law  Stoke Goldington    husband of Mary 
Shadrach Garmston     witness    
James Conning     witness    
Baldwin Wake     witness    
Source:  Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies,  reference  probate copy: D/A/We/69/30; original also available, ref. DA
The original document from which this image has been taken is held by the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, County Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 1UU, UK. Copies may be made for private use, but anyone wishing to publish the will, in whole or in part, or to reproduce it on their website should contact the Centre. A photocopy of the will can be ordered from the Centre

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Source: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies,  reference probate copy: D/A/We/69/30; original also available, ref. DA
The original document from which this image has been taken is held by the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, County Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 1UU, UK. Copies may be made for private use, but anyone wishing to publish the will, in whole or in part, or to reproduce it on their website should contact the Centre. A photocopy of the will can be ordered from the Centre

In the Name of God Amen I Simon Jones of Hanslap in the County of Bucks Husbandman being indisposed in bodily Health but of Sound and disposeing Mind and Memory praised be God for the Same and Sensible of my Mortality do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament in Manner and forme following  First I give and devise unto my Eldest Son William Jones the sum of five pounds   Item I give and devise unto my daughter Mary now wife of William Gadesdon of Stoke Goldington the Sum of ten pound   Item I give and devise unto my daughter Elizabeth Jones the Sum of ten pounds   Item I give and devise unto my loveing wife Elizabeth Jones and to my Son Henry Jones all and Singular my Stock and Cropps and all other my personall Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and to ye Survivor of them Upon condition that they maintain in a Decent and Christian Like manner my son John Jones (who is both deaf and dumb) during his naturall life   And in case my said wife and son Henry shall fail in the maintainance of my said son John as aforesaid then my will and mind is that they shall pay or cause to be paid to him my said son John ye Sume of thirty pounds   Item I give and devise unto my Grandson Thomas Jones ye Son of my son William Jones ye Sume of ffive pounds to be paid him att ye age of Sixteen years by my Executors hereafter named   Item my will and mind is that none of my abovementioned Legacies shall become due and payable by Executors hereafter named until eighteen monthes after my decease and then without Interest   Item my will further is that in case my said son John shall happen to survive my said wife and Son Henry then but not otherwise I do direct him to have ye said Sume of thirty pounds to be paid out of my personall estate I shall leave behind me att the time of my decease   And lastly I do Constitute and appoint my Said wife and Son Henry Sole and Joynt Executors of this my last will and testament   And I do hereby revoke and make void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made and Executed ye mark of Symon Jones Signed Sealed published and declared by ye said Testator to be his last will and Testament in the presence of us who have also Subscribed our names as Witnesses hereto this twenty seventh day of  March in the year of our Lord 1731  Shadrack Garmston  ye mark of James Conning by Baldwin Wake of Hanslope   

Proved ye twenty Seventh day of Aprill 1733

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