In the Name of God Amen This is the last Will and Testament of me Michael Samways of Charminster in the County of Dorset Innholder made and Published this Sixteenth day of September in the Year of our Lord 1760 First I Give to my Brother John Samwayes fforty Pounds And I Give to my Neice Ann Hawker and to my Nephew Charles Samwayes Thirty pounds I Give to my Neices Mary and Elizabeth Dollins (both since Marryed in London)and to my Neice Mary Tayler the like Legacys of Thirty Pounds apeice And I Give to my Daughter in Law Bathsheba Green and to my Sister Hannah Coombes the like Legacy of Thirty Pounds a Peice And I Give Susanna my Wife my House in Weymouth and Melcombe Regis for her life And I Give to Ann the Daughter of Ralph Brine of Dorchester ffive pounds And all the rest of my Goods Chattels Credits and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever I Give to my Nephew John Russell whom I make Executor of this my last Will and Testament revoking all former by me made requesting him to bury me in an handsome and to pay the said Legacys in one Year after my Death if my Money can be conveniently got in In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and Seal the Day and Year first above written Michael Samways Signed Sealed Published and Declared in the Oresence of R Lumley Kingston   Edwd Martin

Proved at London 12 November 1761

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