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Catalogue Reference:Prob 11/652
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Transcription of document by P.M. Harris from digital image:
In the Name of God Amen
I Thomas Mason of Cecil County in the province of Maryland
Merchant and only son and heir at law of John Mason late
of the City of Philadelphia in the province of Pennsylvania Taylor
calling to mind the uncertainly of human life and being of
well sound and disposing mind memory and health praised be
God for his many favours and benefits Do hereby make ordain
publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner
following that is to say
Imprimus I commend my soul
to God from whom I first received it and by whom through the
Merits of my dear Redeemer Jesus Christ I hope to be saved
at the last Day and as to my body I commit it to the Earth (in hopes of a Glorious Resurrection) to be privately and decently buryed
Item
I will that all my ffunerall charges and just debts
whatsoever be well and truly paid by my Executor herein after
named and particularly that as soon as assetts shall arrive to
the hands of my Executor hereby appointed to wit, John Copson
of Cecil County in the province of Maryland aforesaid Merchant
he my said Executor his heirs Executors or administrators or
some of them to pay or cause to be paid to William Carter of
the City of Philadelphia aforesaid Esqr. the Sum of ffifteen pounds
current money of America by me due to him the said William
Carter by obligation under my hand and Seal by me duly
executed with interest for the same from the date thereof at six
per cent he the said William Carter discounting for so much
Goods or value as I shall purchase or procure for him by his
order
Item
I will and bequeath unto my true and loving
friend my Executor herein before mentioned his heirs Executors
and assigns the just and full sum of Twenty pounds sterling money
of Great Britain
Item
I will and bequeath unto my dear sister
Mary her heirs Executors administrators and assigns forever all
the Residuary part of my Estate real or personal whatsoever
to me belonging by virtue of a certain Legacy of One hundred
ffifty pounds Sterling to me bequeathed by Amy Lee of Eaton near
Windsor in that part of Great Britain called England or by any
other ways or means whatsoever which said Residuary part
of my Estate I will and direct to be and remain in the hands
of my said Executor John Copson untill my said Sister Mary shall
attain the age of Twenty one years or marry which ever shall
first happen and in the mean time the same to be disposed of
by my said Executor for the use profit and advantage of my said
sister in such manner as my said Executor shall think proper
hereby revoking and making null and void all and all manner
of former and other Wills Testaments Legacies Bequests or
Devises whatsoever by me made or intended to be made by
these presents and hereby Ratifying and confirming this my
last Will and Testament to be my last Will and none other
Witness my hand and seal at Philadelphia the Ffourth day of
November Anno Dom. One Thousand seven hundred and thirty
one ~ Thomas Mason (LS) Signed Sealed Published and Declared
by the Testator Thomas Mason as his last Will and Testament
in the presense of us Owen Owen John Jones Ffrancis Sherrard
PHILADELPHIA mARCH 13, 1731. Then personally appeared
Owen Owen, John Jones and Ffrancis Sherrard the
Witnesses to the foregoing Will, and the said Owen Owen (being
one of the people called Quakers) on his Solemn affirmation according
to law and the said John Jones and Ffrancis Sherrard on their oath
did every one of them declare they saw and heard Thomas
Mason the Testator above named, Sign Seal Publish & Declare
the same Will to be his last Will and Testament and that at
the signing thereof he was of sound and disposing mind and
memory to the best of their understanding and that the said
Witnesses did subscribe their names thereto in the presense
and at the request of the said Testator ~ Coram ~ Pet Evans
Reg Genl
I PETER EVANS Register General for the probate
of Wills and Granting Letters of Administration in and for the
province of Pensilvania Do hereby verify that the within
writing is a true Copy of the last Will and Testament of Thomas
Mason deceased taken from and compared with the Original
thereof remaining in my Office as Witness my hand and Seal
of the said Office the one and twentieth day of March in the
Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Thirty
one. (LS) Pet Evans. Reg Genl
5 June 1732
APPEARED personally Andrew Imhee an Inhabitant of
the Town of Philadelphia in the province of Pensilvania in
America but at present Lodging in St. Martins Lane in the
parish of St. Martins in the Ffields in the County of Middlesex
and made Oath that this Deponent is the lawfull husband
of Mary Imhee formerly Mary Mason natural & lawful
siser and residuary Legatory named in the last Will and
Testament of Thomas Mason late of Cecil County in the
province of Maryland but at Philadelphia aforesaid in
America Merchant deceased and that John Copson of Cecil
County aforesaid the sole executor named in the said Will
hath renounced and disclaimed to take on him the Executorship
and probate thereof and that his the Deponents said Wife
is now residing at Philadelphia aforesaid and the Deponent
further saith that his said Wife and he in her Right
having by virtue of the said Will an Interest in the sum of
one hundred and fifty pounds or some other such sum heretofore
bequeathed to the said Testator Thomas Mason by Amy Lee of
Eaton near Windsor as mentioned in the said Will of the said
Thomas Mason an Authentic Copy whereof is hereto annexed
under the Seal of the Register General of Pensilvania &
the deponent came from Philadelphia aforesaid to England
by and with the consent and approbation of his said Wife in
order to recover and receive the same which the Deponent is
informed he is not entitled unto without Letters of Administration
(with the said Will annexed) of the Goods of the said
Thomas Mason deceased That this Deponents Business and
stay in England is on no other ground than to retrieve the said
money which is ready to be paid to him on his being able to
obtain the said Letters of Administration with the said Will
annexed of the said Thomas Mason deceased.
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