WHITE, ANTHONY
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29 March 1707/8
proved 29 August 1709
In the Name of God, Amen, I Anthony White ye elder of Smith's Tribe in the Islands aforesaid'
being now bound out on a voyage unto the Kingdom of England and considering many casualties that death
attend man's life and being willing to settle all my wordly affairs have made this my last will and testament in manner and form here following
I bequeath my sole unto God that gave itt, trusting and alone depending on his mercy and through the merrits of Jesus Christ for my redemtion and eternall salvation and my body, I comitt
to the earth from where itt was taken to bee desantly buried and my execut'rs here after named shall think fitt, and as for ye worldly estate that it hath pleased God to bestow on mee, I doe by this my will give and dispose
theirof as followeth.
Item. It is my will and pleasure that my now wife have the use of all my estate boath reall and personall dureing her naturall life if shee shall so long continue a widow, and not marry or bee marryed. But if my now wife Elizabeth White shall marrey or bee married then and in that
cayes: I only leave her what under the law allows not one penny more.
Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my son Capt. Leonard White for and during his naturall life all those my two shares of land with ye mantion hous and out houses standing thereon or now lying settuating and being in Smith's Tribe in these islands afores'd to have
and enjoy the same after the death or marriage of his mother w'ch shall first happen. And from the day and time of the death of my before mentioned son Leonard White, it is my will and I do hereby give and bequeath unto my grandson Anthony White the son of my son Capt. Leonard White and to his
heires lawfully begotten or to be begotten all those my son's shares of land with ye houses and out houses edefises and buildings standing theiron to have hould and injoy the same and his heirs forever against all and every person or persons that may pretend to claim or demand the same by from or under me the testator.
Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my son Capt. Leonard White my scollapt silver comb that was my father's, my saddell furniture and pistoalls, my soard and belt on this condition that hee my son Leonard White do deliver unto my cozen Robert White the land my brother
Robert White deceased one silver hilted savord as goods and as vallubell as that which my son Leo White had of mee that was my brother Robert's that my son Leonard White carried for England but never brought it back or made as yet any satisfaction for the same but if my son Leonard White shall refuse to deliver such a soard as before mentioned unto
my cozen Robert White then in that cayse it is my will and express order that my execu'rs or one of them give and deliver my soard that's use were and the belt belonging to it, unto my said cozen Robert White
Item. I do give and bequeath unto my said cozen
Item. I do give and bequeath unto Elizabeth Maligon one negro girl of the age of five yeares or the vallu theirof and six pounds in money that I owe her on the amount of that money given by my granddaughter Merion Maligon: the which I have paid unto the said Elizabeth Malligon all but the six pounds herenow expressed to be paid and what more my wife shall think fitt to give the s'd Elizabeth Maligon
when shee shall bee married or gone from or depart from my so wife which it shall first happen. Allways provided and it is upon this condition that the said Elizabeth Maligon or any for her or by her procurement--be noways trobellsom or make any demand of or from my daughter Frances Gilbert als Maligon of or conserning any gift or leagasey given or intended to bee given by Mr William Maligon deceased, the father of the said
Item. I do give and bequeath unto each of my grandchildren that is now born or shall be born before the death of my wife and living at her death the sum of twenty shillings each to every one of them; to be paid by my ex'rs.
Item. I doe give unto my son in law Mr John Dickinson the sum of twenty pounds which I order and dyrect my wife when she shall hear of my death to pay the said money, it being in consideration of the charg and trobell that hee has beenatt in tending and looking after myself, wife and family.
Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Dickinson the choyse of all my silver tankards. I mean one of them.
Item. I doe give and bequeath to Mr Thomas Bostock the elder the sum of forty shillings to by him a ring.
Item. It is my will and positive C__ and an order that att the day and time of my death or marrying of my now wife (the which will first happen)
that all and every part and parsell of estate of what nature, kind, quality or degree, itt bee that I have not here perticuler given or disposed
of in this my will in the heretofore g____ shall be equally divided amongst my children, hereafter named, shair and shair alike, that is to say John White now att Carolina, Elizabeth Dickinson, Honor Attwood, and Frances Gilbert and if it should so happen that my son John White, my daughter Dickinson, my daughter Attwood,
my daughter Gilbert, all or anyone of them should depart this life before my now wife or before they or either of them shall have taken or possessed their forth part or divident of my estatte of what nature or quality it be their and in such cayse it is my expres will, order and command that all parts ad divident that should have been reserved and taken by any one of my above mentioned son
or daughters shall bee paid shared and equally share and share alike amongst the said children of above said son and daughters that shall bee then liveing after the death or marriage of my now wife Elizabeth White.
I doe give and bequeath unto my loveing sisters namely Mrs Honor Smith, Mrs Frances Tucker and Mrs Elizabeth Walker each of them twenty shillings to by them a ring with this posey: when this you see remember me>
And I doe hereby nominat and apoint my deare and loveing wife Elizabeth, Mr Thomas Attwood and Mr John Gilbert my sons in law my executors of this my last will and testament contayned in two sheets of paper and if their be any explayne they best knowing my mind, meaning, and intent herein, and lastly I do declare this to bee my last will and making null and void all other wills by mee heretofore made and this onely to bee and stand in force.
Wheir of I have here unto put my hand and seale this 21th day of March 1707/8.
Signed, sealed, publ'd and declared to bee my last will and testament of Coll'oAnthony White in the present of
Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my son Capt Leonard White and his eldest son Anthony White and his heires for ever all the furniture as it now stands in the hall.
March 29th 1707/8
Witness by us
Bermuda... by his excellency the Governor and Ordinary
recorded the 29 of September 1709 from the originall
Joseph Cox Sen'r
William Stone
William Outerbridge ju'
r
Perrent trott Sen'r
Anthony White
Best remembered that Coll'o Anthony White did dclare before us that he did leave three young negroes mainly Tom, Jack and Seth to be disposed of by his wife Elizabeth White to som of his grandchildren to whom she shall think fitt wittness my hand.
Anthony White
Joseph Cox Sen'r
William Stone
Wm Outerbridge jun'r
Perrent Trott Sen'r
These are to certifye that this twenty ninth day of August 1709 personally appeared before mee Governor & Ordinary aforesaid Justice Joseph Cox, Capt. William Stone, Capt. William Outerbridge all of these islands who have subscribed their names as witnesses to ye will above before written and solemnly made oath on ye Holy Evangelist that they respectively saw ye within and above named
testator signe seal & declare ye same will within as his last will & testament. And that
all ye time of doing thereof he the testator was of sound mind and memory. In testimony whereof I have here unto sett my hand the same day and yeare above.
B Bennett
C Minors Sec'y