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1822 - The will of Mary Greenhill Hammond
This is the last will and testament of me Mary Greenhill Hammond
of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Spinster I will and desire that that all my just debts and funeral
and testamentary expenses may be fully satisfied and discharged
by my executors hereinafter named
I likewise will and desire that the will of my late father
Thomas Hammond deceased and all and every the [devised] bequests
dispositions and directions therein expressed may be duly
fulfilled by my said executors
And I hereby ratify and confirm the same as far as in me lies
I likewise give and bequeath to my nephew Thomas Ellis
Hammond the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds
Also I give devise and bequeath unto my cousin William Emery
Hammond son of John Hammond of Wood House in the County
of Salop Gentleman his heirs executors administrators
and assigns all and every my freehold and leasehold estates
in possession reversion remainder or expectancy and all and
singular other my personal property and effects whatsoever
or wheresoever the same may be situated and found at the time
of my decease whether the said personal estate shall consist
of ready money money out at interest on mortgage in the public
funds or otherwise shares in the public companies metal allotted
to me by any metal company in which I am or may be a proprietor
and household furniture or of whatever other nature or kind
my said personal estate may be (save and except my wearing
apparel of all sorts which I do hereby desire and direct shall
be divided between my three nieces Jane the daughter of my
late brother Bonham Hammond and Mary and Sarah daughters of
my brother Joseph Hammond
To hold the same and every part thereof unto my said cousin
William Emery Hammond his heirs executors administrators and
assigns according to the nature and description thereof
And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said
William Emery Hammond sole executor of this my will
In witness whereof I the said Testatrix Mary Greenhill Hammond
have hereunto set my hand and seal the twenty second day
of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty two
Mary G Hammond
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Testatrix
Mary Greenhill Hammond as and for her last will and testament
in the presence of us who in her presence and at her request
and in the presence of each other have subscribed our
names as witnesses (the interlineations between the ninth
and tenth lines being first made) Thos Freeman Bellamy James
Beswick John Bowen
Proved at London 24th April 1822 before the judge by the
oath of William Emery Hammond the sole executor to whom admon
was granted being first sworn by commission duly to admy
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