MRP: Gamaliel Nightingale will
Gamaliel Nightingale will
PROB 11/421 Box 136–186 Will of Gamaliel Nightingale, Late Counsul of Aleppo 30 October 1694
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Gamaliel Nightingale being in perfect health both of boy and minde for which the Almighty bee praised doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament revoking all former Will smade by mee bequeathing my body to the Earth, and my Soule to the God that gave itt as concerneing my estate my debts being paid I give and bequeath as follows
ITEM I doe give and bequeath to my brother in Lawe M:r ffrancis Tod and to my sister Theodoria his wife two hundred pounds sterling money
ITEM I doe give and bequeath to my brother in Lawe M:r Edward Mitchell of Newport Pond in Essex twenty pounds besides the free enjoyment of those Lands and Tenem:ts hee hath purchased for mee att Newport Ponmd dureing his naturall life
ITEM I doe give to my cozen Jane Nightingale two hundred pounds sterling money to her and the heyres of her body
ITEM I doe give and beq
The remainder of my estate whether in goods lands moneys leases debts in what manner soever of right belonging to mee, that is to say, the moneys to bee layd out in Lands, or
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otherwise to be invested or layd out in the joynt stocke of the East Indian Company the Royall Affrican Company or the Company of Hudsons bay parte in each of them So that my Executor Edward Nightingale aforesaid his and theire heyres may have the income thereof only but noe power to sell or dispose and so likewise of my lands
