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I ANN FULLAGAR late Of Homerton in the
parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex and now of Newport
in the Isle of Wight Widow and Relict of JOHN FULLAGAR late of
Homerton aforesaid Esquire deceased hereby revoking all former
Wills by me made do make and publish the following to be my last
will and Testament and I do appoint of Cheshunt Park in
the County of Hertford Esquire and my Dear Son JOHN FULLAGAR
Executors hereof And whereas under and by virtue of the
settlement made previous to my marriage with my said late
husband bearing date on or about the thirteenth day of July one
thousand seven hundred and sixty two I as having survived my
said Husband have a power of disposing by my last Will and
Testament in writing to be subscribed in the presence of and
attested by two credible witnesses of the sum of four thousand
pounds ------ Bank Annuities hertofore Consolidated four pounds
per cent Bank Annuities to and for the benefit of all and every
our child or children in such parts shares and proportions and
for such Estates and ------- as I shall think proper Now I do by
this my last will and Testament subscribe by me in in the
presence of and attested by the two or more persons whose names
are intended to be ------- or written give direct limit and
appoint the sum of two hundred pounds part of the said Bank
Annuities unto my Dear Daughter HARRIET COOKE and the remaining
part thereof unto my said Son JOHN FULLAGAR And I give and
divise of my own property as follows I give and devise my
ffreehold Dwelling House and my Leasehold Chaise House stable
and garden with their respective appurts. situate in the parish
of St. Nicholas near Newport aforesaid and all other the
premises which I lately purchased of Richard Brown and Thomas
Pluppand or either of them unto my said son JOHN FULLAGAR his
Heirs Execs Admins and assigns I give to the said Mr.
and my said three per cent Consolidated Bank
Annuities And in case I shall not die posessed of such a sum of
the said Bank Annuities then I direct my said Trustees to
purchase the same or so much as shall be necessary to stand
possessed thereof Upon Trust to pay the dividends and proceed
thereof unto or to permit or refer the same to be recieved by
such person or persons and for such intents and purposes as my
said Daughter HARRIET COOKE shall at any time or times during
her life notwithstanding her Coverture by any writing or
writings under her hand Direct or appoint and whom as such
direction or appointment shall be made or in force In Trust to
pay the same unto the proper hands of my said Daughter for her
own sole and separate use and to the intent that the same may
not be subject t or liable to the Debts Control or engagements
of her present or any future Husband I direct that the reciept
or reciepts of my said Daughter or such person or persons as she
shall appoint to recieve the same shall from time to time
notwithstanding her coverture be a good and sufficient discharge
or discharges for the same And upon my said Daughters decease
Upon Trust to transfer the said Bank Annuities unto and
among all and every such children of my said Daughter as shall
be living at the time of her decease equally tto be divided
amongst them share and share alike if more than one and if only
one such child to such only child the shares of sons to be
transferred and assigned to them upon the attainment of their
respective ages of twenty one years and of Daughters upon their
attainment of such age or marriage which sahll first happen And
in case any of such children being Sons depart this life under
the said age of twenty one years and or being Daughters under
the said age and unmarried then In Trust to assign and transfer
the share or shares of such deceased child or children unto the
survivors or survivor of such children ------ his her or their
original share or shares shall become payable and --- ---
herewith And I do hereby direct my said Trustees from time to
time during the Minority of the said child or children to lay
out and invest the Dividends or proceed thereof in their own
names ---- and as the same shall in their own discretion amount
to a competent sum in the public ffunds or of other Government
Securities at their discretion in order that the same may
accumulate and increase for the benefit of the said children
such accumulations or savings of the said Dividends or proceed
to be transferred and paid unto the said children or child
together with their his or her respective shares of the said
Bank Annuities But in case my said Daughter HARRIET COOKE shall
depart this life without leaving any children or child by her
present or any future Husband or leaving such they shall all
depart this life being Sons under the said age of twenty one
years and being Daughters under the said age and unmarried then
I give the said three per cent Consolidated Bank
Annuities and the accumulations of the Dividends or proceeds
thereof unto my said Son JOHN FFULAGAR for his own use and
benefit I give to my Son in Law Mr. WILLIAM COOKE the sum
of hundred pounds sterling I desire Mr. CROMWELL to
accept fifty pounds I give to my sister MRS. CROMWELL twenty
guineas for Mourning to my Nephew JOHN MARCH twenty guineas for
Mourning and to my Niece MRS. RUSSELL ten guineas for Mourning
To MRS. COOKE of Newport twenty guineas for Mourning I give to
my said Daughter HARRIET COOKE my own watch and seal and all my
jewels rings Trinkets and personal ornaments of every kind and
her ffather's picture in a Bracket and all my own Linen wearing
apparel also my Shagreen Tea Chest with Silver Cannisters my
Silver Spout --- with handles I give to my said Son JOHN
FULLAGAR the larger picture of his late father and my own
picture which I ----- request he never will part with All the
rest and residue of my estate and effects not herein before
disposed of after payment of my just debts funeral and
testamentary expenses I give and bequeath unto my said Son JOHN
FULLAGAR for his own absolute use and benefit And I do hereby
declare that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said
Trustees and the survivor of them or such other Trustee or
Trustees as shall at any timeeafter be chosen by virtue and in
pursuance of the power hereinafter contained for that purpose
during the continuance of the Trusts hereinbefore created to
sell and dispose of the said sum of three per censt
consolidated Bank Annuities and to place and lay out the monies
to arise therefrom in other Government or Public or upon Real
Securties and from time to time as often as they shall see fit
and such securities when so taken and all interest and dividends
to grow due for the same shall be upon the same Trust as herein
before ------- and declared concerning the said Bank Annuities
or such of those as shall then remain unperformed And I do
hereby declare that either of them my said Trustees nor their
respective heirs Execs or Admins or any Trustee or Trustees
hereafter to be chosen and appointed by virture of the power and
authority hereinafter contained for that purpose oe their
respective heirs Execs or Admins shall be chargeable with or
accountable any more money than what they shall respectively
actually recieve nor shall any of them or their heirs Execs or
Admins be chargeable with or for the acts reciepts or defaults
of the other of them his Heirs Execs or Admins but each of them
for himself and for his own acts reciepts and defaults only nor
r any loss which may happen in or to the said Trust monies so
that the same happen without their wilfull default nor for any
other involuntary loss whatsoever And that it shall and may be
lawful for my said Trusteees and the survivor of them and such
other new Trustee or Trustees so to be appointed as aforesaid at
all times in the first place to reimburse themselves out of the
monies which they shall recieve by virture or this my will all
such sum or sums of Money Costs and charges and Expenses as they
or any of them shall or may at any time or times hereafter bear
pay or be put unto in the execution of the Trusts hereby as the
------- in ----- in anywise relating them to And in case either
of them the said shall depart this life before the
Trusts emposed in them by this my will shall be fully executed
and performed then I direct the survivor of them by writing
under his hand attested by two or more credible witnesses to
nominate and appoint another person to be a Trustee for the
purposes aforesaid in the place of such deceased Trustee and to
and from time to time as often as then shall be occasion so that
there may be always two Trustees of the said Trust ----- and
when and so often as any new Trustee shall be chosen as
aforesaid the said Trust Monies or the stock ffunds or other
Securites in which the same shall be then vested shall be
thereupon ----------- with all------ ------- transferred and
assigned so as that the same may be legally and officially
vested in the surviving Trustee and such new chosen Trustee upon
the Trusts aforesaid and every such new chosen Trustee shall and
may act in the execution of the Trusts aforesaid in conjunction
with the surviving Trustee as fully and effectually as if he or
they had been appointed a Trustee or Trustees for the purpose
aforesaid by this my will In witness whereof I have to the five
------ sheets of this my will and to a Duplicate thereof each
contained in six sheets of paper set my hand and to the sixth
and last sheet thereof my hand and seal the third y of April in
the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and two ANN
FULLAGAR signed sealed published and declared by the said Ann
Fullagar the Testatrix as and for her last will and testament in
the presence of us who in her presence at her request and in the
presence of each other subsribed our names as witnesses hereto
THOS.MANFIELD/ BENJAMIN MANFIELD /THOS.
WILLIAMS @ Cheshund Park Herts.
I ANN FULLAGAR of Newport in the Isle of
Wight do make this codicil to my will I give to Mr. WILLIAM
COOKE my Son in Law fifty pounds instead of the five hundred
pounds which I have given him by my will which legacy of 500
pound I do hereby revoke I give to my Daughter HARRIET COOKE his
wife my silver coffee Pot and little waiter instead of the
shagreen Tea Chest with the Silver Cannisters which I have given
her by my will which legacy of the teas chest and Cannisters I
do hereby revoke and I do give such Tea Chest and Cannisters to
my Son JOHN FULLAGAR I desire to be buried in Bunhill ffields in
the vault where the remains of my dear affectionate Husband and
four children are interred
Witness my hand the 18th Day of May 1807
ANN FULLAGAR
I ANN FULLAGAR of Newport in the Isle of
Wight do make this Codicil for my will which is the Second I
have written My Linen Wearing Apparel and jewels I give to my
Daughter HANNA SCALES FULLAGAR instead of my Daughter HARRIET
COOKe as given by my will likewise I do hereby revoke what is
mentioned in my will aboput the Trust and I give the Money
therein mentioned to my Son JOHN FULLAGAR whom I now appoint my
sole Executor and ----- by law the 3rd Day of March 1809 ANN
FULLAGAR
I ANN FULLAGAR revoking the Duplicate of
my will dated April 1802 confirm the will as altered by my
Codicils
Dated May 1807 and March 1809 ANN
FULLAGAR August 1809
In the Prerogative Cout of Canterbury 20th
april 1814
On which day appeared personally Samuel
Jones of Tower Street London one of the Clerks of the Bank of
England Hester Hanna Scales of Stoke Newington in the County of
Middlesex Gentlewoman Spinster and John Fullager of Newport in
the Isle of Wight Esquire And first the said Samuel Jones and
Hester Hanna Scales for themselves made oath and say that they
knew and were well aquainted with Ann ffullagar formerly of
Homerton in the parish of Saint John in Hackney in the County of
Middlesex but late of Newport in the Isle of Wight Widow
deceased for several years before and at the time of her death
and having seen her write and subscribe her name are thereby
become well aquainted with the manner and character of her
handwriting and subscription and having now carefully viewed and
persused the word "hundred" written upon an ---- upon the
twntieth line form the toop of the first page of the said will
also the word 'part' written upon an --- upon the same line and
also the same word written upon an ---- in the twenty second
line of the same page of the said will and having now also
viewed and perused the three codicils annexed to the said will
the first of said Codicils beginning thus Ann Fullagar of
newport in the Isle of Wight ----- ------ witness my hand the
18th day of May 1807 and ------ subscribed "Ann Fullagar" the
second of said codicils beginning thus "John Fullagar" of
Newport in the Isle of Wight ----- thus witness my hand the 3rd
day of March 1809 and thus subscribed "Ann fullagar" the third
Codicil being in the ---- following to wit Ann Fullagar revoking
the duplicate of my will dated April 1802 confirming will as
altered by my codicils dated May 1807 and March 1809 and they do
verify in their consideration the said ---- written upon ----
upon the first page of the said will also the whole ----- and
contents of the said three codicils beginning ----- and
subscribed as aforesaid also the subscription of her the said
Ann Fullagar widow deceased And the said John Fullagar Esq. for
himself made oath that having now carefully viewed the several
erasures in the said will of the said deceased ----- the
erasures upon the ---- line of the first page then two erasures
on the twentieth line of the same page also the erasure in the
22nd line of the same page also the erasure in the last line of
the same page of the said will also the erasure in the first
line of the second page of the said will also the erasure on the
eighteenth line from the top of the said second page of the said
will also the erasure in the eighth thirteenth 15th 17th 18th
19th and last line of the third page or sheet of the said will
also the erasures in the 11th and 17th lines of the fourth page
of the said will and likewise the erasure in the tenth line of
the fifth page or sheet of the said will this Deponent says
that the paper and ------ aforesaid purporting to be the last
Will and Testament of the said Deceased together with the first
said ----- first Codicils thereto remained sealed up in a tin
Box in the Dwelling House of the said Deceased until the day of
her death ------ in an envelope or cover and the Deponent having
proceeded to open the said envelope or cover where the same were
contained sealed up therein found the said will and two codicils
and having looked at and viewed the same observed the several
erasures now appearing in the said will and hereinbefore
particularly described he lastly says that the said will is now
in the very same ------ and condition in every respect as -----
he the Deponent attested ----- of the said deceased first and
saw the said will
Samuel Jones Hester Hanna Scales John
Fullagar Esq. sworn to the truth of this affidavit aforesaid
Proved at London with the three Codicils
22nd April 1814 before the Worshipful Joseph Phillimore Dr. of
Laws and Surrogate by the oath of John Fullagar the Son and Sole
Executor to whom Administration was granted being first sworn
duly to Administer. // A further Codicil proved 13th May 1814 //
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