In the name of God Amen

Whereas I Thomas Spark of Oxton in the County of Chester Yeoman knowing the uncertainty of human Age do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testement, in manner and form following that is to say First and Principally I Recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it hopeing to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my Sins and to Inheirit Everlasting Life And my Body I commit to the Earth to be Orderly and decently Buried And as to the Disposal of my Esteat and and all such goods money Cattel and Personalty as it hath pleased Almighty God to Endow me with I give and bequeath the same as follows

That is to say my mind and Will is that all my just and Lawfull Debts and Funeral Expences are first paid and discharged by my Executors

Then I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary MIDELTON the sum of Twenty pounds of good and Lawfull money of great Brittain to be paid her in twelve months after my Decease Then I give to my Daughter Ann MIRES the sum of Thirty pounds of good and Lawfull money of great Brittain to be paid her in two years after my Decease Then I give and bequeath to my Daughter Martha SPARK the sum of Fifty pounds of good and Lawfull money of great Brittain to be paid her in three years after my Decease

Then I give and bequeath to my Daughter Ellen SPARK the sum of fifty pounds of good and Lawfull money of Great Brittain to be paid her in four years after my Decease Then I give and bequeath Daughter Frances SPARK the sum of fifty pounds of good and Lawfull money of great Brittain to be paid her in five years after my Decease

Also I give to my Daughter Martha SPARK the Bed next to the Loft Door with rod hangings about it and all furniture belonging to it over and above the fifty pounds before mentioned with the Bedsteads Sheets and coverings belonging thereto Also I give and bequeath to my Daughter Ellen SPARK the Bed with green hangings and Bedsteds Sheets coverings with all the furniture thereto belonging over and above the fifty pounds before mentioned

Also I give and bequeath to my Daughter Frances SPARK the Bed that stands next to the window and the Bedsteads Sheets Coverings and all furniture belonging to it over and above the fifty pounds before mentioned

Also I give and bequeath to my Granson Robert LESTER my Gray Mare called juel and my Saddle and a pare of Bedsteads that are in the lads Room and the Chist in the Palor after my Loving wife Ellen SPARKS decease the Trial and the Chiese weights are his own Property Also I give and bequeath to my Loving wife Ellen SPARK and my three Daughters Martha SPARK Ellen SPARK and Frances SPARK all my Putor to be equailly divided amongst them that is to say Share and Share a Like

Also I give and bequeath all my Linen to my Loving Wife Ellen SPARK and my three Daughters Martha SPARK Ellen SPARK and Frances SPARK as follows that is to say my Loving Wife Ellen SPARK to have one half of the said Linen an my three Daughters Martha SPARK Ellen SPARK and Frances SPARK to have the other half of the afore said Linan to be equailly divided amongst them that is to say share and Share alike Then my mind and will is that my Loving Wife Ellen SPARK shall and must have Nine pounds of good and Lawfull money Every year during her natural Life to be paid her at two even and Equal payments the first payment to be made and paid in six months after my Deceace to be paid her of my Esteat Likewise my mind and will is that my Loving wife shall and must have the Parlor and all the furniture that is in the Parlor and some necessarys besides that will be of use to her and to despose of the goods as she thinks Proper but my Loving wife shall and must have the Parlor dureing her natural life over and above the Nine pounds a year before mentioned as long as she keeps her self in my name But my mind and will is that if my Loving Wife Ellen SPARK should Marry after my decease then my Will is that she shall have one Shilling and not to have nine pounds a year nor the Parlor only the goods that are in the Parlor and what my Executors pleases to give her besides the goods

Then I give and bequeath to my son in Law Humphery THOMAS of Councel in the County of Flint my House and all my out buildings and all my parceles of land and Closes of Land belonging thereto my said Tenement lying and being in the Township of Oxton in the County of Chester with all its pertinances and all rights and tietles thereto belonging Also all my stock of Cattle Cows and Horses Implements of Husbandry and all my household and Personalty of what kind or sort so ever Excepting what was herein before mentioned for his own sole use and benefit against all or every person or persons that shall claem aney Right or title thereto He the aforesaid Humphrey THOMAS Paying all my Debts Funeral Expences and all the Legaces that is herein Mentioned And I do Revoke disanul disalow and make void all former Wills by me before made and do confirm this and no other to be my only true Last will and Testament And I do nominate and Appoint my Son in Law Humphery THOMAS of Councel in the County of Flint and my Daughter Frances SPARK my Executors of this my Last will and Testament In Witness hereof I the aforesaid Thomas SPARK have hereunto set and put my hand and Seal this Eighteenth day of November in the fifteenth year of the Reign of our Soverigne Lord George the third King of great Brittain &c and in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy five

Signed Sealed declared and Published                       and by us Atested in the

in the presance of                                            presence and sight of the Testator

us

Martha Harvey

Joseph Harvey                                                 Thomas Spark

Saml Wathew

25^th April 1776

Humphrey THOMAS and Francis SPARK Sp^r the Extors in this Will named were sworn in comon form

before Char Henchman Surte