25 March 1799 Will of Moses Pitt of Birchin Lane, London, insurance broker (proved 22 July 1800)

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Source: TNA, PROB 11/1345

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The last Will & Testament
of Moses Pitt of Birchin Lane in the City of 
London Insurance Broker First I will & desire that
all my Debts and Funeral Expences shall be paid
and that I shall be decently buried in the Parish
Church or Church Yard where I shall die, if at 
Poole in the Vault where my Father & Mother
lies I will also that my Landes Estates & Premises
in the Parish of Lytchett commonly called Lower
Lytchett or Lytchett Minster in the County of Dorset
may be sold with all convenient Speed after
my decease, the Mortgage of Eight hundred pounds
thereon to my Niece Ann Hanham to be first
discharged (if not done before my decease) 
in that part called Pikes, Organ or



Organt in the said Parish and the Money so
arising to be placed in the three pounds :r
Cent Consolidated Annuities Also I will that all
my Personal Property in the House of my
Partner Thomas Bingley under the Firm of Bingley
Pitt and Co and also in the Houses or Firms
of Bingley Pitt & Bingley and Bingleys Pitt &
Masten be reallized as soon as may be and
the produce thereof from time to time be
placed in the said Fund of Three pounds per
Cent And for the disposal of said property I
leave & appoint my good Friend and partner Thomas Bingley
of Birchin Lane and my Relation Thomas Durell
Esqr of the Town & County of Poole Executors In
Trust to dispose thereof in the following manner
vizt I give & bequeath to my reputed or natural
Daughter (by the Body of Sarah Jones deceased)
known or called by the Name of Sarah Pitt (&
now residing with my much valued Friend &
Relation Mary Green of the Town & County of
Poole Widow) the full Sum of one thousand
five hundred pounds Sterling Money of Great
Britain I also give and bequeath to my
reputed or natural Son (by the Body of the said
Sarah Jones deceased) known or called by the Name
of William Pitt in the Service of Captain Richard
Dodd of the Countess of Leicester Packet lately
taken but at present in the Marquis of Kildare
Packet in the Employ of His Majestys Post Master's 
General and Sailing from Falmouth the like full
Sum of one thousand five hundred pounds
Sterling Money of Great Britain and also I give
& bequeath to my reputed or natural Daughter
(by the Body of the said Sarah Jones deceased)
known or called by the Name of Susan Pitt
& now at the Boarding School of Miss M Fletcher
of Hammersmith in the County of Middlesex the
like Sum of one thousand five hundred pounds
Sterling Money of Great Britain and in case
either of the said reputed or natural Children
shall die or decease before they attain the age
of twenty one years then the share or shares
 shall fall or come into my general Estate
I give & bequeath to my Sisters Margaret Pitt
and Susan Pitt Spinsters both residing together
at Lytchett Minster in the County of Dorset the
full Sum of Five hundred pounds each also to
my Niece Ann Hanham wife of the Reverend
James Hanham of Corfe Mullen in the County of



Dorset the full Sum of Five hundred pounds for
the sole use and benefit of herself & Children I
also give or Forgive a Debt of one hundred pounds
due to me from the said James Hanham I
also give and bequeath to my much valued Friend
and  intended wife Mary Green widow
of the Town and County of Poole the full Sum
of one thousand pounds as a token of my
great regard for her & in gratitude for her kind
Hospitality to and Support of my Daughter Sarah
Pitt like one of her own Children for some years
also I cancel and give her whatever Debt
may appear in my Book or Books of Account
against her I give to my Godson Thomas
Bingley Junr the full Sum of one hundred
Pounds Sterling Money of Great Britain Also to
my Godson Harry Bingley Sedgwick Son of my Friend Harry Sedgwick of Hamerton
in the County of Middlesex the full Sum of
one hundred Pounds Sterling Money of Great
Britain I give to my Executors Thomas Bingley
& Thomas Durell the full Sum of one hundred
Pounds each Sterling money of Great Britain for
their trouble in executing this my last Will and
Testament I give to Mr Thomas Marten in the
Counting House of Bingley Pitt & Co the full Sum
of Twenty Pounds for Mourning Also to George
Cowles Bookkeeper to Ditto the full Sum of Twenty
Pounds for Mourning also to Mr George Parkinson
Twenty Pounds for Mourning Also one hundred
Pounds to Mr Richard Doncaster an Old Clerk in
the Counting House And finally in regard to
the residue (if any) of my Estate & Effects I
leave to my said Executors Thomas Bingley
& Thomas Durell In Trust to be disposed of as
I shall in future direct And as to the payments
of the Bequests herein contained it must rest
with my said Executors as they can collect
Funds for the purpose and of whose diligence
therein I have no doubt  Done after noting
two Interlineations in London the 25th day of
March 1799  by me Moses Pitt

NB Instead of my Personal Property in the
Houses or Firms of Bingley Pitt & Co Bingley
Pitt & Bingley and Bingles Pitt & Marten I mean
all my Personal Property where and whatsoever
Moses Pitt



		11 July 1800
Appeared Personally William john
Pitt of Winborne in the County of Dorset Esquire
and Harry Sedgwick of Hamerton in the County
of Middlesex Esquire and made Oath that they
knew and were well acquainted with Moses Pitt
late of Birchin Lane and of the Inner Temple
London Esquire deceased for several years before and
to the time of his death and have several
times seen him write and write and Subscribe
his Name whereby they have acquired a knowledge
of his manner and Character of Handwriting and
Subscription and having now viewed the Paper
writing hereunto annexed purporting to be and
contain the last Will and Testament with a
Codicil thereto of the said deceased the said Will
beginning thus "The last Will and Testament
of Moses Pitt" ending thus "Done after noting
two Interlineations in London the 25th day of
March 1799 by me" and thus Subscribed "Moses
Pitt" the said Codicil beginning thus "NB
Instead of my Personal Property" ending thus
"all my Personal Property where and whatsoever"
and thus subscribed "Moses Pitt" These Deponents
say that they verily and in their Consciences
believe the whole Series and Contents of the
said Will and Codicil and the Names Moses
Pitt thereto Subscribed and also the word one
interlined between the 27th & 28th lines of the second
Sheet of the said will to have been wrote and
Subscribed by and with the propert Hand of the
said Moses Pitt Esquire deceased W:J:Pitt Harry
Sedgwick  SAme day the said William John Pitt
and Harry Sedgwick were duly sworn to the
truth of this affidavit before me William Adams
Sur Prest Chas Bedford N.P.

		19th July 1800
Appeared Personally Thomas Bingley
of Birchin Lane London Esquire and made Oath
that he is one of the Executors named in
the last Will and Testament of Moses Pitt late
of Birchin Lane and of the Inner Temple
London Esquire deceased that the Deponent hath
since the death of the said deceased made a



diligent Search amongst the said deceased's
Papers of Moment and concern which he kept
Locked up in the Desk of his Counting House
in Birchin Lane and amongst his papers in
other places for the purpose of discovering if
the said deceased had left any Codicil to his
will or any other paper of a Testamentary
nature but he hath not been able to find any
such the Deponent therefore verily and in his
Conscience believes that the said Deceased hath
not left any Codicil to his will or any
Testamentary Disposition of his property whatever
besides his said Will which is hereunto annexed
bearing date the 25th day of March 1799 and the
Envelope in which the same was enclosed
Thos Bingley  Same day the said Thomas
Bingley was duly sworn to the truth of this
Affidavit before me S Parson Sur Prest Edwd
Toller N.P.

This Will was proved at London (with
a Codicil) the twenty second day of July in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
before the Right Honorable Sir William Wynne
Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary
of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully
constituted by the Oaths of Thomas Bingley and
Thomas Durell Esquires the Executors named in the
said will to whom administration was granted
of all and singular the Goods Chattels and
Credits of the Deceased they having been first
sworn duly to administer (that is to say) the
said Thomas Bingley before the Worshipful Samuel
Pearce Parson Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the
said Commissary and the said Thomas Durell
by Commission





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