The Will of John Johnson

 

This is the last Will and Testament of me John Johnson of Thame in the County of Oxford.  I direct that all and just debts funeral and testamentary expenses by paid and satisfied by my Executors hereinafter named as soon as conveniently may be after my decease and I give devise and bequeath all and every my household furniture linen and wearing apparel books plate pictures china hoses carts and carriages and also all my book debts money or bonds bills notes or other securities and all removable articles in my dwelling house at the time of my decease unto my two sons William Johnson and Stephen John Johnson their heirs and assigns for ever and I give devise and bequeath also to my said sons William Johnson and Stephen John Johnson all that my messuage or tenement now occupied by me and situate in New thame in the parish of Thame in the county of Oxford with the buildings and appertanences and also all that my close or parcel of Woodboro Ground situate in Old Thame in the parish of Thame in the County of Oxford now in my own occupation with the buildings and appurtenances thereto belonging to hold to them my said sons William Johnson and Stephen John Johnson their heirs and assignes for ever and as to my said household furniture linen and wearing apparel books plate pictures china horses carts and carriages and also all my book debts money or bonds bills notes or other securities  I charge the same absolutely and as to the said messuage or tenement now occupied by me and the said close or parcel of meadow ground also in my own occupation I charge the same during the life of my wife Susannah Wain Johnson with the payment to my said wife during her life of one … annuity of Fifty pounds of lawful British money to be paid to my said wife by four quarterly payments on the twentyfirst day of March, the twenty fourth day of June, the twenty ninth day of September and the twenty fifth day of December in every year the first quarterly payment thereof to be made on such of the said days of payment as shall first happen after my decease.  I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Sarah Hunt (or Stait?) all that my messuage or tenement situate in New Thame in the parish of Thame in the County of Oxford now in the occupation of Mary Nichols with the buildings and appurtenances thereto belonging to hold to her my said daughter Elizabeth Sarah Hunt her heirs and assignes for ever.  I give and devise unto my daughter Susannah Dorcas Marsh, wife of James Marsh all those three cottages or tenements situate in Park Street in Old Thame in the parish of Thame and now in the occupation of Richard Biggerstaff William Squires and Thomas Henson (?) with the buildings and appurtenances thereto belonging to hold to her my said daughter Susannah Dorcas Marsh her heirs and assignes for ever and I further give and bequeath to my said daughter Susannah Dorcas Marsh the legacy or sum of Two hundred pounds of lawful British money to be paid to her by my said sons William Johnson and Stephen John Johnson within twelve months after my decease or interest on the same of four per cent per annum and I give and bequeath all my securities for money and all other … and personal estate and effects not hereinbefore bequeathed  of or to which I may be entitled or that or possessed at my decease unto my said sons William Johnson and Stephen John Johnson their executors administrators and assignes for ever subject only to the annuity before mentioned to my said wife and the aforesaid legacy to my said daughter and I nominate constitute and appoint my two sons William Johnson and Stephen John Johnson to be Executors of this my Will and revoking thereby all former or other Wills and Testaments by me at any time heretofore made I declare this to be my last Will and Testament.  In witness whereof I the said John Johnson have to this last Will and Testament set my name the Twenty seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.  John Johnson signed by the testator John Johnson and … by him to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time and supervised by us in the presence of the said Testator and of each other.  John Edward Lusty (?) Thomas Edward Shrimpton.   Proved at London 2 Dec 1854 before the Worshipful Monsire Charles Matthias Swabey Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of William Johnson and Stephen John Johnson the sons the Executors to whom ab non was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.   National Archives (PROB 11/2202)