11-0931-141_GeorgePittCradock_1767
I GEORGE PITT CRADOCK of London gentleman being shortly to leave England to go to [Absuroolon] in the East Indies do make my last will and testament as follows first I will and direct that all my debts legacies and funeral expenses be paid and satisfied and after payment thereof and subject thereto I give to my uncle Thomas Cooke Esquire the sum of one hundred pounds and also ten guineas for a ring and to my uncle William Smyth King I likewise give one hundred pounds and ten guineas for a ring I also give to my friend Mr William Wood of Austin Fryars London and Mr William Warden one hundred pounds apiece and as to all the rest and residue of my estate whatsoever and wheresoever being all personal I give and bequeath the same unto my said uncles Thomas Cooke and William Smyth King their executors administrators and assigns upon trust to and for the uses intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned that is to say that my said trustees shall and do from time to time and at all times hereafter place out and continue the same in their own names in any real or parliamentary securities or publick funds carrying interest and shall and do pay or raise to be paid the interest or dividends as shall accrue and become due from time to time for or on account of the said rest and residue of my said estate to be vested in securities as aforesaid unto my loving sister Florentia Wynch wife of Alexander Wynch of Bilton Park in the County of York Esquire for and during her natural life separate to and distinct from the said Alexander Wynch her present husband or any future husband and my will is that the same shall not be subject or liable to his or their debts control intermeddling or engagements in any manner of ways howsoever but that her receipt alone notwithstanding her coverture and no other shall be a sufficient discharge to my said trustees from time to time for the said interest or dividends so to be paid by them to her as aforesaid and from and after the decease of my said sister then upon trust that my said trustees shall and do pay assign transfer and deliver the said rest and residue of my estate so by me directed as aforesaid to be vested in securities unto all and every the child or children of my said sister as shall be living at the time of her decease in such shares and proportions in case of more than one such children as my sister separate from her present or any future husband and notwithstanding her coverture shall by any writing by her executed in her life time or by her last will and testament or any writing purporting to be her last will and testament direct or appoint and for want of such direction or appointment then upon trust to pay assign transfer and deliver the said rest and residue of my estate so by me directed to be vested in securities as aforesaid unto and among all and every the child and children of my said sister as shall be living equally to be divided between them if more than one share and share alike and if there shall be but one such child living at my said sister’s death then to such only child and my will is that the shares of such of them as shall be a son or sons be paid transferred and delivered to him or them at his or their age or ages of twenty one years and the shares of such of them as shall be a daughter or daughters at her or their age of twenty one years or day or days of her or their respective marriages (which shall first happen) and in case any or either the said children of my said sister shall die before his her or their shares shall become payable and transferable then and in such case my will is that the share or shares of him her or them so dying shall go to the survivors or survivor of them to be paid transferred assigned and delivered at the same time as his her and their original share and shares is and are hereby made payable and transferable and in case there shall be no child or children of my said sister living at the time of her decease then upon trust to pay transfer assign and deliver the said rest and residue of my estate and the securities in which the same shall then be vested unto the executors or administrators of my said sister to and for their own use and benefit And further my will is that my said trustees shall not be liable to any loss or damage which may happen to the trust estate unless the same shall happen through their wilful act or neglect nor for the acts or deeds of the other of them but each one of them only for his own acts deeds and receipts and also that they my said trustees and each of them shall and may deduct and pay themselves out of the said trust moneys all such costs and expenses as they and each of them may be at in or about the said trust and I do hereby constitute and appoint my said uncle Thomas Cooke sole executor of this my will and I do hereby revoke all former wills by me at any time heretofore made and do declare this to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of December one thousand seven hundred and sixty three – George Pitt Cradock – signed sealed published and declared by the said George Pitt Cradock the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other – George Hooker Robt Burchall
Probate 20/8/1767 – This will was proved at London on the twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven before the worshipful George Harris Doctor of Laws and surrogate of the Right Worshipful George Hay also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Thomas Cooke Esquire the uncle and sole executor named in the said will to whom administration of the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased was granted he having been first sworn duly to administer.
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