I Reuben Sturgeon of Bury St Edmunds in the County of Suffolk Surgeon and Apothecary do make publish and declare this my last Will & Testament hereby revoking all former wills and do constitute and appoint my beloved wife Sarah Surgeon formerly Sarah Perkins whole and sole Executrix and do give to her all my estates and Effects Monies Bonds and Securities of every sort and kind Plate Linen ffurniture Bills Book Debts Stock in Trade and every thing upon the face of this Earth for her own use and benefit during the term of her natural life without being accountable to any person or persons for the same if it is in her power to spare each and every one of my Sisters that may be living at the time of my death the Sum of ffifty Pounds to be paid each and every one of them in three or six Months it will give me satisfaction but it is left entirely to Mrs Sturgeon’s own good sense and good temper and that she cause some attorney to provide a proper Will or Instrument how my Estates and Effects are to be applied after her death according or as near as may be to the following directions To my Niece Mary Guy the sum of ffifty Pounds To the children of her Brother Henry Soutard Guy one Boy and two Girls the like Sum of ffifty Pounds each when they severally arrive at the age of Twenty four years if either of them die before they arrive at that age the Sum of One Hundred and ffifty Pounds to be divided between the Survivor or Survivors To my Nephew Henry Guy the sum of ffifty Pounds To his two Children the sum of ffifty Pounds each when they arrive at the age of Twenty four years To my beloved Sister Rebecca Sturgeon the Estate where she now lives in the Cook Row of Abbey Gate Street I give and bequeath to her for ever with full Liberty to dispose of it as she pleases to my Sister Ann Park I give the Sum of fforty Pounds pr Ann payable by four equal quarterly payments of ten pounds each my Estates and ffunded Property to be charged with the Payment thereof To my Sister Phillis Victor I give the sum of one Thousand Pounds or ffifty Pounds pr Ann for her own use or for her Husband Mr John Victor or the longest liver of them To each of their Children the Sum of One hundred pounds and To each of their Children the Sum of One hundred Pounds each and to their youngest Son Henry Hasted Victor an additional Sum of One hundred Pounds to assist his education as for the rest of my Property let my beloved Wife bestow it upon the most deserving of my Sisters and their families Let my ffunerall be as frugall as is possible And all my .... paid this I publish and declare as my last Will and Testament wrote with my own hand and signed Sealed and Witnessed this ninth day of January in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen Jany 19 1819 my Ground of Pease Porridge Green to be sold to pay my Legacies Reuben Sturgeon _ Witness our hands the day and year aforesaid _ James Garrod _ Peter Burrows _ Hy Cutter

Proved at London 3 February 1820

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