Source: TNA, PROB 11/1504
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This is the last Will and Testament of me John Adam Carter of Portsmouth in the County of Southampton Esquire whereby I recommend my Soul to God and dispose of all my worldly Estate and Effects in manner following that is to say all and singular my Manors Lands advowson and Rectories and all my Messuages Cottages Fee Farm Rents and other Rents Tithes Tenements and Heredits whatsoever and all parts and Shares Right Title Claim and Demand of in and to all or any Manors Lands Advowsons or Rectories Messuages Cottages Fee Farm Rents and other Rents Tithes Tenements and Heredits whatsoever Freehold Customary or Copyhold situate lying and being the Counties of Southampton and Sussex or elsewhere in the Kingdom of Great Britain and all other my Real Estates whatsoever and wheresoever whereof or wherein I am or of or to which I am or may be seized or entitled in possession Reversion Remainder or Expectancy or whereof or wherein I have or may have any disposing power with the appurts thereto belonging I Give and Devise unto and amongst all my Brothers and Sisters namely William Carter Sarah the wife of the Rev John Garett Bussell Clerk Elizabeth Carter Susannah Carter Anna Carter Thomas Wren Carter Catharine Carter and Arthur Carter their Heirs and Assigns to and for the only proper use and behoof of them my said Brothers and Sisters their Heirs and Assigns for ever to take as Tenants in Common and not as joint Tenants but in case any or either of them my said Brothers and Sisters shall happen to die under the age of twenty one years and leave no lawful Issue of his her or their body or bodies living at the time of his her or their decease then I Give and devise the part or Share or parts or shares of him her or them so dying unto the Survivors or Survivor of them and their Heirs and Assigns for ever as Tenants in common and not as joint Tenants if more than one and if but one then to such only surviving Brother or Sister and his or her Heirs and Assigns for ever all and singular my ready Money Money in the Public Stocks or Funds Securities for Money Debts due and owing to me and all the rest residue and remainder of my personal Estate and Effects of every Degree and Denomination whatsoever and wheresoever that I shall be possessed of interested in or any ways entitled unto at the time of my decease (after payment of all my just Debts Funeral Expences and the Costs of proving this my will and the Expences incidentally attending the execution thereof) I Give and bequeath unto my said Brother and Sisters William Carter Sarah the Wife of the Reverend John Garratt Bussell Elizabeth Carter Susannah Carter Anna Carter Thomas Wren Carter Catharine Carter and Arthur Carter to and for their own proper use and benefit in equal parts and proportions Share and Share alike but in case any or either of them my said Brothers and Sisters shall happen to die under the age of twenty one years without leaving lawful Issue of his her or their body or bodies then I direct that the part or share or parts or shares of him her or them so dying without lawful Issue shall go to the Survivors or Survivor of them my said Brothers and Sisters in equal proportions share and share alike if more than one and if but one then to such only surviving Brother or Sister and to and for his or her own use and benefit and I do hereby nominate and appoint Sir John Carter of Portsmouth aforesaid Knight and Arthur Atherley Atherley of the Town and County of Southampton Esquire Executors of this my will and I do hereby direct that my said Executors shall not be answerable or accountable for any loss that shall happen to all or any part of my Real or personal Estate and Effects so as such loss do not happen through their wilful neglect or Default and that they shall reimburse themselves respectively all such loss Costs Charges Damages and Expences as they shall be put unto or sustain in and about the execution of this my will or any matter Charge or thing relating thereto and that one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the other of them or for the acts Receipts payments or Defaults of the other of them but each of them for himself and for his own acts Receipts payments and Defaults only and lastly I do hereby revoke and make void all former and other wills by me made and I declare this only to be and contain my last will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament contained in two Sheets of paper set my hand and seal that is to say my hand to the first sheet hereunto annexed and my hand and seal to this second or last Sheet hereof the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and four John Adam Carter Signed Sealed published and declared by the said John Adam Carter the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament upon the day of the date in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request have subscribed our names as witnesses William Coshier R Gallaway Geo Augs Gallaway This Will was proved at London the fifth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine before the Right Honorable Sir John Nicholl Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of Arthur Atherley the surviving Executor named in the said Will to whom Admon was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having been first sworn by Commission Duly to administer
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