This is the last Will and Testament of me Letitia Pack of Ashwell in the
County of Hertford Widow First (subject to the payment of my Funeral Expences) I
give and bequeath All my Household Furniture Plate Linen China and Household
stuff and Money in the House unto my Sons Thomas, John and James and my
Daughters Ann Pack and Hannah Lee equally to be divided between them share and
share alike And I give the convenient use and enjoyment of a Room in my now
Dwelling House unto my said Daughter Ann Pack during such time as she shall
remain single and unmarried And subject thereto and also subject and chargeable
to and with the payment of my just Debts and Testamentary Expences and of the
sum of Fifty Pounds apiece which I do hereby give and bequeath to my said son
Thomas pack and my Daughters Ann Pack and Hannah Lee to be paid them
respectively at the end of one Year next after my decease I give devise and
bequeath unto my said Sons John Pack and James Pack All that my Freehold
Messuage or Tenement (now divided into two Dwellings) and in the Occupation of
myself and James Pack together with the Barns Stables Blacksmiths Shop Gardens
Orchards Commons and Appurtenances thereunto belonging situate in Ashwell
aforesaid and all other my Freehold Estate whatsoever And also all my Stock in
Trade of a Blacksmith Tools and Implements Book Debts and residue of my Personal
Estate and Effects whatsoever (not hereinbefore given to my said five children)
To Hold all my said Messuage or Tenement and Hereditaments and also my said
Stock in Trade Books Debts and residue of my Personal Estate and Effects unto my
said Sons John Pack and James Pack their Heirs Executors Administrators and
Assigns according to the nature and quality of the same respective Estates as
Tenants in Common and not as joint Tenants (subject and chargeable with the
payment of my Debts and the said Legacies of Fifty Pounds apiece to my said
other children at the time aforesaid And I nominate constitute and appoint my
said Sons John Pack and James Pack Executors of this my Will, and I do hereby
revoke all other Wills by me heretofore made and declare this to be my last Will
and Testament In Witness whereof I the said Letitia Pack the Testatrix have
hereunto set my Hand and Seal this ninth day of March in the Year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Letitia Pack her X mark
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Letitia Pack as and for her
last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at her request and in her
presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as
Witnesses thereto
Saml Bowman of Ashwell Innkeeper
John Strickland of Ashwell Baker
H. O. Roe of Baldock, Herts Gent.
Proved at Baldock, 22 June 1816