12 July 1803 Will of Young Green, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy (proved 24 December 1805)

The original document can be obtained online from The National Archives.

Source: TNA, PROB 11/1434

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This is the Will and Testament
of me Young Green Lieutenant in the Royal
Navy for the disposing of all my worldly Estate in
manner and form following First I desire to be decently
itnerred at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter
named and that all my just Debts together with my
funeral Expences may as soon after my decease as
conveniently can be fully paid and discharged by
the said Executors and Trustees I give unto my
beloved Sister Ann Green the Sum of
Two thousand pounds Sterling now held in Bond
by my Brother Thomas Green and also to my
beloved Sister Harriett Margarett Green I give
the Sum of Two thousand pounds Sterling now
likewise held on Bond by my said Brother
Thomas Green to be paid them at their request
on their separately attaining the age of twenty
one years but if either of them the said Ann
Green or Harriet Green departs this Life before
she attains the age of twenty one years then the
survivor of them Ann or Harriett Green shall
receive the whole Sum of four thousand pounds
partly bequeathed to herself and to her the
deceased Also in case of the death of them both
Ann Green and Harriett Green before the age
of twenty one years the whole Sum of four
thousand pounds Sterling shall go to the benefit
and Estate of my beloved Brother Thomas Green
Also I give and bequeath unto my dear friends
Benjamin Pead and Godin Shiffner Esquires their
Heirs &c the Sum of two hundred pounds Sterling
each which Money is now vested in the 3 per Cent
Funds as part of the residuary property of my
late Father Young Green Merchant of Pool in
Dorsetshire Also all the other property (which by
the last Will and Testament of my late Father
the abovementioned Young Green and at my
present disposal now in the said Funds) Sum or
Sums Debt or Debts Goods or Chattells
of whatever Description whatever I give and
bequeath to my said Brother Thomas Green
Also intending he should hold (paying annually
the legall Interest of 5 pr Cent to my before
mentioned Sisters Ann Green and Harriett Green
respectively) the severall Sums before bequeathed
to them or the survivor of them till they seperately



arriving to the age of twenty one years they
the said Ann Green and Harriet Green having
it in their own power at arrival of such Age to continue
it in the possession of my said Brother Thos Green
or to draw it from thence and deposit it at their
option elsewhere also in case my before mentioned
Brother Thomas Green does not survive my
youngest Sister Harriet Green become of age
of 21 years and leave no Issue by his present
Wife then and in that case my before mentioned
Sisters Ann Green and Harriet Green or the
Survivor of them shall receive the whole
of the funded property herebefore bequeathed
to him in case of his surviving my youngest
Sisters attaining the age of twenty one years
and further in case of the decease of my Brother
before mentioned Thomas Green previous to my
youngest Sister coming of age or the survivor of
Ann or Harriet then the hereinafter mentioned
Executors will with conveniencey to the Estate of
my Brother Thomas Green collect and dispose
of the two several Sums of two thousand pounds
bequeathed to my Sisters Ann Green and Harriet
Green to the best advantage by their joint
Judgement in the public Funds or some other
Government Security for the mutual Good of
them my said Sisters Ann and Harriet or the
survivor of them  Young Green  Signed
sealed published and declared by the said
Young Green the Testator as and for and to
be his last Will and Testament in the presence
of me who subscribe my Name as Witness hereto
in his presence and at his request the words "his
Heirs &c" in the second page erased and an
Erazure being in the eighth line of the third side
on wihch is written the words "to the best advantage
by" which were first severally made  Witness I W Lander

I Yound Green hereby request and appoint
the before mentioned Benjn Pead and Godin
Shiffner Esqrs to accept and take on them jointly
the execution as Trustees of this my will
written on one Sheet of vellum Letter paper consisting
of three pages under each page having set my hand
and Seal this twelfth day of July in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three



                        23 Dec 1805
Appeared personally James Medmore
Brickwood of Lime Street London Merchant and
John Strettell Brickwood of the same place Gentlemen
and made oath that they knew and were well
acquainted with Young Green late a Lieutenant
on board his Majestys Sloop of War Fly at Sea
deceased and having several times seen him
write and subscribe his name and thereby
came well to know and be acquatined with
his manner and character of Handwriting and
Subscription and having now carefully viewed
and perused the paper writing hereunto annexed
purporting to be and contain the last Will and
Testament of the said deceased beginning thus
"This ist he last Will and Testament of me Young
Green Lieutenant in the Royal Navy" concluding
previous to the attestation thus "for the
mutual Good of them my said Sisters Ann and
harriet or the survivor of them" and thus subscribed
"Young Green" with the continuation at the foot
thereof beginning thus "I Young Green hereby
request and appoint" and ending thus this twelfth
day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and three" they these Deponents
do say they verily and in their consciences believe
the whole of the said Will and the Continuation
thereof as aforesaid to be all of the proper
handwriting and Subscription of him the said
Young Green deceased s???e and except the
?????? I W Lander set and subscribed as a
Witness thereto  J M Brickwood  John Smettell Brickwood
same day the said James Medmore Brickwood
and James Strettell Brickwood were duly sworn to
the truth of this Affidavit Before me C Costa Sur?t

This Will was proved at London the twenty fourth
Day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and five before the Right Honourable
Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of Laws Master
Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oaths of
Benjamin Pead and Godin Shiffner Esquires the
Executors named in the said Will to whom administration
of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits



of the deceased was granted they having been first
sworth by Comon duly to administer




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