In the name of God Amen  I James Snelling of Wokeing in the 
County of Surry Blacksmith do make & ordain This my last Will and 
Testament as follows  First I commend my soul to the mercies of God 
and my Body to the earth to be decently buryed at the discretion of 
my Executor hereinafter named  and as to my Worldly Estate I Give 
and bequeath the same as follows first my will and meaning is that 
all my just debts and funerall expences be fully satisfied and paid by 
my Executor
I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Ann now the wife of John 
Blishon for the term of her Naturall Life all that my free hold 
messuage with a blacksmith shop and Garden with the 
appurtenances sittuate lying and being in Wokeing aforesaid she 
paying out of the same unto my son James Snelling one shilling in 
one month after my decease also my Will is that if at any time my 
son John Snelling should at any time come my will is that he should 
have the use of one Room in the said house to Lodge in and the 
stable for his horse free from any payment and from and after the 
decease of my said daughter I Give and bequeath the said house and 
shop and Garden with the appurtenances unto my Grandson James 
Blishen and his heirs and assigns for ever he alowing unto my son 
John the use of the house and stables as above directed and paying 
out of the same unto my Grandaughter Mary Blishon the sum of 
twenty five pounds in two months after his Mothers decease if my 
said Grandaughter have attained to the age of twenty one years if 
not then to pay her the said twenty five pounds at the time that she 
attains to the age of twenty one years further my Will is that if all my 
said daughters children should happen to dye before they have 
attained to the age of twenty one years and Leave no child lawfully 
begotten then and from and after the decease of my said daughter 
and her children I give and bequeath the aforesaid Estate unto my 
son John Snelling and his heirs and assigns for ever and I charge the 
said Estate as above directed
I Give and bequeath all my household goods to my son John Snelling 
and my daughter Ann Blishon to be eaqually devided between them 
shear and shear alike  I Give and bequeath unto my son John Snelling 
and his heirs and assigns for ever all my copyhold lands in Pirbright  
All the Rest of my goods and chattells of what kind so ever I Give and 
bequeath unto my son John Snelling and I constitute and appoint my 
son John Snelling my sole executor of this my last will and testament 
contained in this and one other sheet of paper  In wittness whereof I 
have here unto sett my hand and seal this third day of July in the 
year of our Lord one thousand seaven hundred seaventy and four. 
James Snelling
Signed sealed published and declared by the testator to be his last 
Will and Testament in the presents of us who subscribed our names 
as Witnesses in the presents of the testator
George Gyles   Mary Gyles   Philip Gyles 

Whereas in the former part of this my Last Will I have desired that 
James Blishen should pay to his sister Mary Twenty five pounds but 
now as my Daughter have more children and may have more I desire 
that Fifty pounds more in all seventy five pounds may be devided 
Equally between all his Brothers and sisters share and share alike to 
be paid by the said James Blishen out of the freehold House and 
premises before mentioned at their Respective ages of Twenty one 
years if he should then be come into possession of the said premises 
if he be not then to be paid in six months after he do come into 
possession  I desire that my son James may have free liberty to carry 
on the Trade of a Blacksmith in the shop and liberty of going to 
grindstone so long as he shall choose to carry on the trade him self 
but not to let it to any other person  I mean the smiths shop only by 
Paying Twenty shillings a Year Rent
I desire my Funeral Expences and all Moneys advanced on my 
account from this time may be equally paid by my son John and my 
Daughter Ann share and  share alike  I give to my son James all the 
Tooles belonging to the Trade I desire the Additions and Alterations 
now made be in as full force and Virtue as what was first Wrote as 
Wittness my Hand and Seal this Twenty Second day of December one 
thousand seven hundred and Eighty
James Snelling
Wittness  John Hunt   James Stevens   the mark X of Annes Learence 

This Will with a Codicil was proved at London the 6th day of May 
1784 before the Worshipful Andrew Colke Dercarel Doctor of Laws 
Surrogate of the Worshipful George Harris Doctor of Laws 
Commissary for the Parts of Surry lawfully constituted pending the 
Annual Visitation by the Oath of John Snelling the son and sole 
Executor therein named to whom Administration was Granted 
having been first sworn duly to Administer.

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