This is the last Will and Testament of me Richard Barker of Messingham in the County of Lincoln Farmer which I make with a sound and disposing mind memory and understanding as follows hereby revoking and making void all former and other will and wills by me at any time heretofore made In the first place I devise that all my just debts and funeral expences be paid and discharged by my Executor I make my son George Barley my sole Executor of all money or securities for money farming stock household furniture goods and cattles personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever the same may be In the first place I give to all poor widows and widowers in Messingham one pound each Allso I give ten pounds to ten poor labours one pound each as my Executor thinks has most need those to be paid soon after my decease in the next place I give to my cousin Mary Colly of Kinton fifty pounds and to my cousin Thomas Websters children that are living fifty pounds each I allso give to Richd Barley of  Waddlesthorpe fifty pounds I allso give to Stephen Charles fifty pounds and allso to Robt Marshal sen: fifty pounds in the next palce I give to my old servant Joseph Clark fifty pounds and also I give to my housekeeper Ann Barley fifty pounds and to my servant Henry Dunderdale thirty pounds I now give fifty pounds to the Bible Society and I give one hundred pounds to the Foreign Missionaries in the place I give eight pounds towards Seafaring Chapel Debt I declare this to be my last Will and Testament contained in these two sheets of paper having set my hand and seal to both this day of our Lord June 11th 1850_ Richard Barker

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Henry Dunderdale_ William Dixon_ William X Belton

Proved at London 27 November 1854

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