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Will of Joseph INGRAM, Linen Draper of Cheapside, London

Will 8 March 1741   Probate 29 December 1746

Summary.

Biographical Notes.

·         Parents: William Ingram and Susannah [Robins?]

·         Date of Birth: 14 November 1686 at Pudding Lane, London

·         Profession: Linen draper

·         Marriage: to Mary Bellers on 27 July 1710 at the Bull & Mouth Meeting

·         Meeting: Gracechurch Street

·         Date of Death: 14 December 1746

·         Cause of Death: “Imposthume in his bowels”

·         Burial: 24 December 1746 at Friends’ burial ground near Bunhill Fields

Highlights of Will

·         To his wife Mary, he leaves his various properties in Hoxton, Middlesex.

·         From his estate he instructs that an annuity of £16 provided for in the will of his father William Ingram for the benefit of Christobell Ingram, widow of Joseph’s brother, continue to be paid.

·         Up to £300 to his son Robert for the purpose of his being apprenticed our in a proper trade.

·         He gives his household goods, plate, furniture and linen to his wife Mary.

·         £50 to his daughter Frances Vandewall.

·         The remainder of his estate he divides into three portions. His wife Mary is to receive one portion. The remaining two portions are to be divided equally between his three sons Thomas, Samuel and Robert.

Transcriber’s and Editor’s Notes

·         He was married to Mary Bellers, daughter of the social reformer John Bellers proponent of the “Colledge of Industry.”

·         Christobell Ingram was the widow of his older brother Robert. His father William made provisions in his 1707 will (q.v.) for an annuity for her as long as she did not remarry.

Will as transcribed from a copy of the original document

(Original line and page breaks preserved as far as possible)

I Joseph Ingram of Cheapside

London Linnen Draper being through the Mercy of God at

present of a sound Mind and Memory Do make and publish

this to be my last Will and Testament that is to say I give and

devise to my Dear and well beloved Wife Mary All my Messuages

Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premises scituate lying and

being at Hoxton in the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in

the County of Middlesex and all other my Real Estate

whatsoever and wheresoever which I am Seized and possessed of

Interested in or Intituled unto To hold the same to and to the

use of my said Wife Mary her Heirs and Assigns for ever

She my said Wife her Heirs and Assigns Paying out of the same

an Annuity of Sixteen Pounds per Annum which was left to my

Sister in Law Christobell Ingram during so long as she shall

continue a Widow and unmarried in and by the last Will and

Testament of my late Father William Ingram deceased of which

I was Executor and I do hereby Charge my said Real Estate with

the Payment of the said Annuity according to the directions of

the said Will of my said Father Also I give to my Son Robert

Ingram any Sum not exceeding three hundred Pounds of lawfull

Money of Great Britain to be paid and applied towards putting

him out Apprentice to a proper Trade Also I give to my said Wife

all my Household Goods plate Furniture Linnen and Wearing

Apparel Also I give to my Daughter Frances Vandewall Fifty

Pounds And all the rest residue and remainder of my Goods Chattels

Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever after

Payment of my Just Debts and Funeral Expences I do direct shall

be divided into three equall parts And I do give one the said

three equal parts to my said Wife Mary Ingram for her own

proper use and benefit And I do give the remaining two third

parts thereof to my Sons Thomas Samuel and Robert Ingram equally

to be divided between them share and share alike for their

respective proper use and benefit and I do direct the several

parts and shares of my said Sons Thomas and Samuel to be paid  and

delivered to them within twelve Months next after my decease

And that the part and share of my said Son Robert shall be paid

and Delivered to him when he attains his Age of Twenty one Years

and in case either of my said Sons shall dye before his part or

share of the said rest and residue of my Estate becomes due and

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Payable Then I give the part and share of such of my said Sons

as shall so dye unto the Survivors and Survivor of them to be

equally divided between such Survivors (if more than one) and paid

to them respectively when their own Original part and share in the

said Residue of my said Estate will become due and payable as

aforesaid And it is my Mind and Will that in the meantime and until

my said Son Robert shall attain his said age of Twenty one Years

That my Executrix herein after named do without and Risque or

Loss to herself place out the part and share of my said Son Robert

in the said Rest and Residue of my Estate on Government Securitys

And pay and apply the Interest and Income thereof or so much

thereof as she shall think proper for and towards the Maintenance

Education and Support of my said Son till he attains the said Age

of Twenty one Years and Whereas on the Marriage of my said

Daughter Frances Vandewall with her late Husband Joseph Vandewall

deceased I did one or more Deed or Deeds Convey and Settle certain

Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premises scituate

in the Parish of East Greenwich in the County of Kent To the several

uses and purposes therein mentioned Now I do hereby Ratify and

Confirm such Settlement and every Matter and Thing Therein contained

And Lastly I do appoint my said Wife Mary Ingram sole Executrix

of this my last Will and testament and do revoke all former and

other Wills and Declare this only to be my last Will and Testament

In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Ingram have hereunto set my

Hand and Seal the Eighth day of March in the Fifteenth Year of the

Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of

God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the

Faith and so forth And in the Year of our Lord 1741 – Jos: Ingram –

Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said Testator Joseph

Ingram as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence

of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have

hereunto Subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereof.  Walter

Coleman – John Tilly – Will’m Watts ./.

This Will was Proved at London before the Worshipful

Robert Chapman Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful

John Bettesworth also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary

of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully consitituted on the

Twenty ninth day of December in the Year of our Lord One thousand

seven hundred and forty six by the Solemn and Sincere Declaration or

Affirmation of Mary Ingram Widow the Relict of the deceased

and sole Executrix in the said Will named to whom administration

was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the

said deceased having first made the Declaration or Affirmation

aforesaid according to Act of Parliament duly to Administer /. Ex’d

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