Will and inventory of Henry Forde of Newborough, 1728

Description:Wills and their accompanying inventories of goods and chattels, are an excellent source of information for family, social and economic history. A will can provide all kinds of useful information about family relationships and the social and economic status of the testator, that is the person making the will. In addition before 1750, an itemised inventory of the goods of the deceased was drawn up by between two and five unbiased persons called appraisors, overseers or supervisors. The inventory includes all the moveable goods, including there appropriate household goods, clothing, stock-in-trade, farm stock, growing and cut corn, loose money and any rent and debts due but it does not include land.

“In Nomine Dei Amen

I Henry Forde of Newburrough in the parish of Hanbury & County of Stafford Yeoman being of a perfect sound disposing mind & memory praised be God do ordain & make this my last Will & Testament in manner & form following Viz Imprimis & principally I commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God my Creator hoping & stedfastly believing thro’ the Inestimable merits of my only Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ to receive full free pardon & Remission of all my sins & to receive a portion in his Everlasting Kingdom My Body I commit to the Earth from whence it was originally taken to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named & as for such Temporal goods as the Lord of his mercy hath lent me I dispose of the same as followeth My Debts & funeral charges being first therout deducted

Item I devise & bequeath to my Nephew Henry Lee the summe of twenty pounds of Lawfull British money
Item I devise & bequeath to my Neece Hellen Woollams the summe of ten pounds of Lawfull British money
Item I devise & bequeath to my Neece Elizabeth Woollams the summe of ten pounds of like lawfull money
Item I devise & bequeath to my Neece Ursula Lee the summe of twenty pounds of like lawfull money & one feather bed & all the furniture thereunto belonging standing in the far chamber
Item I devise & bequeath to my Neece Alice Lee the summe of twenty pounds of like Lawfull money one feather bed & all the furniture thereunto belonging standing in the Middle Chamber & one Large New Brass Kettle..........”

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Will transcription of Henry Forde (27 KB)

Inventroy transcription of Henry Forde (38 KB)