Will of Anne Buller, Widow of Exeter

Proved 16 September 1800

© Crown Copyright

PROB 11/1347/222, Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

Transcribed by Elizabeth Kipp

1 This is the last Will and Testament. 
2 of me Anne Buller of the City of Exeter Widow
3 as to all and singular my Messuages Tenements
4 and Lands whatsoever Freehold leasehold Goods
5 Chattels Monies in the Funds securities for
6 Monies and all other my real personal and
7 testamentary Estate and Effects whatsoever and
8 wheresoever of which I shall die possessed seized
9 or intitled unto Subject to the payment of my
10 just debts and funeral Expences I give devise
11 and bequeath the same and every part thereof
12 unto and between my beloved children Susanna
13 Catherine Richard and Georgiana and their
14 several heirs Executors and Administrators to
15 be equally divided between them share and
16 share alike as Tenants in Common and not as
17 joint Tenants provided that if the real and
18 personal property and Effects of which I shall
19 die seized or possessed be more than sufficient
20 to pay my said three children the sum of four
21 thousand pounds each after discharging my just
22 debts and Funeral Expences Then and in such case
23 I do hereby direct and my express will is that
24 the overplus or Surplusage of my said Real and
25 personal property and effects after payment to
26 my said three children of the Sum of Four
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27 thousand pounds each as aforesaid and my said debts
28 and funeral Expences shall be equally divided and
29 shared between my said three Children Susanna
30 Catherine, Richard and Georgiana and my beloved
31 daughter Anne Buller wife of James Buller of
32 Downes Esquire and their several
33 heirs Executors and Administrators as Tenants in
34 Common and not as joint Tenants and I do hereby
35 make nominate constitute and appoint my said three
36 children Susanna Catherine Richard and Georgiana
37 Executors of this my last Will and Testament And it
38 is my Will and desire that the said James Buller
39 shall have the sole Management and direction of
40 the Charity called Maynards Charity and I do hereby
41 as far as I lawfully can vest in line the sole
42 Management and direction thereof In Witness whereof
43 I the said Anne Buller have to this my last Will
44 and Testament contained and written on one sheet
45 of paper set my hand and Seal the sixteenth day of
46 December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
47 hundred and ninety seven Anne Buller Signed
48 sealed published and declared by the said Ann Buller
49 as and for her last will and Testament in the presence
50 of us who at her request in like presence and in the
51 presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
52 our Names as Witnesses Samuel Davis Thos
53 Turner Attorney at Law Exeter John Suxin his Clerk
54 This Will was proved at London the sixteenth
55 day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand
56 Eight hundred before the Right honourable Sir
57 William Wynne Knight Doctor of Laws Master
58 keeper or Commissary of the prerogative Court of
59 Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oaths of the
60 Reverend Richard Buller Clerk the son and Catherine
61 Buller and Georgiana Buller spinsters the daughters
62 of the deceased and the Executors named in the said
63 Will to whom Administration of all and singular the
64 Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased was
65 granted they having been first sworn by Commission
66 duly to administer.

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