Yeoman. WILL WRITTEN IN 1749, PROVED 1753.
Weak in body but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding.
Commends soul to God and asks for a decent internment by his executors.
Loving wife Mary and sons Aaron and Thomas all messuages[houses], cottages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments as tenants in common. Subject to the payment of all legacies in the will.
Daughters Mary and Ann £150 each.
Daughter Elizabeth £150 at the age of 21 with the interest that accrues on it until then.
Residual money, stock, goods, chattels and anything else to wife Mary and sons Thomas and Aaron equally. They to pay his debts and the legacies to his daughters. Mary his wife and his sons Aaron and Thomas all joint executors of the will.
If Mary remarried she is no longer to be an executor of the will or have interest in his estate [this would be because otherwise her new husband would become legally possessed of her property upon their marriage]. If Mary remarries she is to receive a £10 annuity for life paid for out of his estate.
A deduction from Thomas's inheritance is to be made for his board, maintenance and education.
Witnessed by John Clark, Joseph Meaks, and Zach. Allnutt [Zachary Allnutt, a Marlow attorney].
Note: Andrew does not mention his son Luke (who was living) in his will.
Andrew was first married to a Judith and then as a widower married Mary Keene of Great Marlow at Hughenden in 1716.
Will of Andrew's brother Moses summarized on the blog here.
Andrew was the executor of the will of his uncle another Moses Medwin in 1701.
More on Aaron, Luke and Thomas sons of Andrew here.
Transcribed from an original will held at the National Archives and then summarized here by me Charlotte Day.
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