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Will of Mary INGRAM, Widow of Joseph Ingram of Cheapside, London

Will 14 July 1749 with Codicil 18 July 1749   Probate 2 August 1751

Summary.

Biographical Notes.

·         Parents: John Bellers, cloth merchant, and Frances Fettipace of London

·         Date of Birth: 1689 at London

·         Marriage: 25 July 1710 to Joseph Ingram, linen draper, son of William Ingram, salter at the Bull and Mouth Meeting.

·         Meeting: Gracechurch Street

·         Date of Death: 21 July 1751 at Coln Aldwin, Gloucestershire

·         Cause of Death: an inflamation

·         Burial: 30 July 1751 at Friends burial ground near Bunhill Fields

Highlights of Will

·         £100 to her daughter Frances Vanderwall.

·         She confirms the marriage settlement made upon her marriage to Joseph Vanderwall, now deceased.

·         She leaves all her estate at Hoxton to her son Thomas Ingram as well as all the property left her by her father John Bellers in Wilts, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, her properties in Pennsylvania and West New Jersey, and her leasehold estates at Coln Saint Aldwin.

·         She leaves £4000 to her son Samuel Ingram.

·         She leaves a £10 annuity to Susanna, the widow of Benjamin Clerk, and Christobell Lund, the wife of Benjamin Lund, both being the daughters of her late husband’s brother Robert Ingram.

·         She also leaves an annuity of £10 to Ann Tarbox, the wife of Joseph Tarbox of Winchmore Hill.

·         She leaves the rest of her estate to her sons Thomas and Samuel Ingram, whom she names as her Executors.

Codicil

·         She leaves her daughter Frances Vanderwall £800, in addition to the legacy in the will.

Transcriber’s and Editor’s Notes

·         Her husband Joseph Ingram died in 1746.

·         Her sons Thomas and Samuel do not appear to have remained Quakers.

Will as transcribed from a copy of the original document

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

I Mary Ingram Widow of Joseph

Ingram late of Cheapside London Linnen Draper being by the

Mercy of God at present of sound mind and memory do make

and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following

I give and bequeath to my dear and well beloved Daughter

Frances Vandewell on Hundred Pounds of lawful Money of

Great Britain to be paid by my Executors herein after named

within six Months after my decease I also confirm the settlement

which her said late Father Joseph Ingram and my self made of our

Estate at East Greenwich in the County of Kent upon her marriage

with Joseph Vandewall her late husband deceased I also give her

all the Arrears of Rent which shall be due from the Tenants

of the said Estate at my death I give and devise unto my

dear and beloved Son Thomas Ingram all my Estates at

Hoxton in the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the

County of Middlesex to which I am intitled by the Will of

his Father my late dear and most beloved Husband Joseph

Ingram to hold to my said Son Thomas Ingram his Heirs and

Assigns for ever To whom I also give all the arrears of Rent that

shall be due from the Tenants of the same Estate at my decease

I also give to my said Son Thomas Ingram his Heirs and Assigns

for ever All the Freehold Lands to which I am intitled by the

Will of my late dear Father John Bellers and by the Will of

my Aunt Elizabeth Fettiplace lying in several Countys of

Wilts Oxford and Berks I also give to my said Son Thomas

Ingram all my Messuages Lands and Heriditaments in

Pensilvania and West New Jersey or elsewhere in America To

hold to him his Heirs and Assigns for ever I also give to my said

Son Thomas all my share Right and Interest of and in the

Leasehold Estate or Estates held under the Dean and Chapter of

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Gloucester granted to me and and others of the Mannor of

Colne Saint Aldwins the Rectory or Parsonage of Colne Saint

Aldwins and the Advowson of the Vicarage of the Church there

and divers Messuages  Lands Tenements Tythes and Hereditaments

in the said County of Gloucester and the Tythes of the Chapelry

of Peter Ampney in the same County with the Appurtenances

to hold to my said Son his Executors Administrators and Assigns

for all my Term and Estate therein or which I shall by virtue of

any renewed Lease happen to have therein at my decease to

whom I also give ll my right and interest of in and to the

Household Goods Furniture and Implements in and about the said

Mannor House I also to give to my dear and well beloved Son

Samuel Ingram the Sum of four Thousand four Hundred

Pounds to be paid to him out of my personal Estate in six

Months after my decease I also give the following Annuitys

to be paid by my said Son Thomas Ingram to the several

Persons hereafter named for and during their respective Lives

that is to say to Susanna the Widow of Benjamin Clerk and

Christobell Lund Wife of Benjamin Lund of Bristol the said Susanna

and Christobell being Daughters of Robert Ingram deceased Brother

of my said late Husband and to Ann Tarbox Wife of Joseph

Tarbox of Winchmore Hill ten pounds a piece yearly the said

Annuitys to be paid half Yearly from the Day of my Death

clear of all deductions All the rest and residue of my personal

Estate I give and bequeath to my said Son Thomas Ingram

and make him and the said Samuel Ingram his Brother

Executors of this my Will and hereby revoke all former Wills

by me made and to this my last Will have set my Hand

and Seal the fourteenth Day of July one Thousand seven

Hundred and forty nine – Mary Ingram – Signed sealed published

and declared by the said Mary Ingram as and for her last

Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her

presence and of each other have attested the same John

Howell – Tho: Cater – John Halfpenny ./.

                        July the Eighteenth 1749

I give unto my Daughter Frances Vandewal eight Hundred

Pounds over and Above the Hundred Pound named above Witness

my Hand Mary Ingram ./.

This Will was proved at London with a Codicil annexed

before the Worshipfull Robert Chapman Doctor of laws and Surrogate

of the Right Worshipful John Bettesworth also Doctor of Laws Master

Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

lawfully constituted on the second Day of August in the Year of

our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and fifty one by the Oaths

of Thomas Ingram and Samuel Ingram the sons of the Deceased

and Executors named in the said Will To whom Administration

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

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said Deceased being first sword duly to administer./. Ex’d

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