Will of Philip Gayer



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Below is shown the will of Philip Gayer (four pages).  The original is in the PRONI.   Below the copy of the will is a transcript.

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Phillip Gayer Will and Codicil

(where a word is unclear it appears in italics, where it is illegible it is represented by xxxxx)
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Extracts from the will of the late Phillip Gayer Clerk taken from the Prerogative Court.

I order all my debts be punctually paid towards which I believe it will be necessary to sell the leases I hold from my Lord Conway of Willis Mountain and the houses in Carrickfergus. I leave to my son William my concerns  in England and my house in Johnstown Charged however with the two hundred pounds due to Alderman Dawson, which was borrowed to pay for the renewal of it in as full and ample manner as was agreed upon I settled upon my marriage. I leave also to my son all my books in the learned languages. My English books I leave may be divided equally among all my children. Fourthly I leave to my son Edward the Bleaching yard and utensils belonging to the same with those fields now in the possession of Robert MacLean the houses and gardens of Margaret Proctor and James Henry the strips of each side the Glen that little field next the Dam and the use of the Road

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He paying four shillings and sixpence for each English one yearly to my executors during my life. I leave also the Tenant right of said premises to my 2nd son. Fifthly I leave all my other goods and chattels and all my effects of what nature do occur to be equally divided between my daughters. Sixthly whereas my late father left five pounds to be put to intent which interest was to be laid out in Bibles to be given to the inhabitants of the parish that could use and were least able to purchase them xxxx sum  is due to me I leave the further sum of five pounds to be laid out as above and the intent to buy common prayer books and whole Dutys of Man  I constitute and appoint my three eldest daughters Jane, Charlotte and Catherine executrixes of my last will and testament. Witness my hand and seal this XX of September 1750. I leave to my Coz. Catherine Mussen the sum of five pounds xxx. I order that each person’s legacy or share of my effects be valued and each to contribute proportionally to my debts notwithstanding the paragraph above. 

Written Signed sealed and published in presence of John Mussen, Richard Bulmer, James McEvoie

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Whereas it has pleased God to make an attraction in my circumstances by the death of my uncle Edward Mathews it is necessary to make a further distribution of my effects which I do in the manner following. I leave to my daughters Four Hundred Pounds apiece out of the effects which I derive from my uncle Mathew and the rest to be equally divided amongst all my children and I leave to my sister Sarah an annuity or rent charge on all my leases of forty pounds a year during her natural life and I further bequeath one hundred pounds sterling to my son Edward over and above what had been afore mentioned and I appoint the same executors as above to this my last will and testament.
Signed sealed and published in presence of Conway Jones, Thomas Grant and James Boyd.

In order to avoid any misunderstanding of this my last will it is my intention that my daughters shall have in the first place Four Hundred pounds sterling

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apiece and that the residue of my whole effects as well those I was possessed of before my uncle Mathew’s death as after shall be shall be equally divided amongst all my children share and share alike leaving to my son Edward the Bleach Yard Green xxx and  the annuity to my sister as mentioned within. And it is my intention also that the annuity to my sister shall be charged as my ready money as well as  xxxxx so as to be  secured to her in the most in the most effectual manner.

Signed sealed and published this 1st day of February 1755 these above words as after on money being first xxxxxx
In presence of Conway Jones, Thomas Grant, James Boyd

Probate dated March 5th 1755

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