This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas BLOWER of the Parish of Ragland in the County of Monmouth Yeoman. First I give and devise all those two messuages or dwelling houses with the appurtenances and gardens thereunto belonging together with all my household furniture and chest of carpenter’s tools, situate lying and being opposite the National School in the Village and Parish of Ragland in the County of Monmouth to my sister Ann WHITE for and during the term of her natural life, and my said sister Ann WHITE is to pay my funeral expenses, and for erecting a Tomb over me and my wife’s grave of the value of fourteen pounds, and from and immediately after her decease I give and devise the said messuages or dwelling houses with the appurtenances and gardens thereunto belonging to my nephew Thomas BLOWER and his heirs for ever, and my said nephew Thomas BLOWER is to pay to my cousin Elizabeth STEPHENS the sum of twenty pounds of lawful money of great britain immediately after my said sister Ann WHITE’s decease, and my said nephew Thomas BLOWER is to pay to my said sister Ann WHITE’s heirs or assigns immediately after her decease whatsoever expence she may go to in putting the said two messuages or dwelling houses in tenantable repair and also the sum of fourteen pounds of lawful money of great britain for erecting the said Tomb, and I hereby nominate constitute and appoint John NICHOLAS of the parish of Cwmcarvon in the County of Monmouth, Farmer, sole Executor of this my Will and Testament,
In Witness whereby I have subscribed my name and seal this fourteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty two.
Thomas BLOWER
Signed sealed declared and published by the said Testator Thomas BLOWER as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us and who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
Edward LEWIS
Thomas STEPHENS
23rd day of October 1844
Ann WHITE (the wife of Richard WHITE) the lawful sister one of the next of kin and substitute residuary Legatee in this Will was sworn well and faithfully to execute the same and that the goods chattels and credits of the deceased are under the value of one twenty pounds (John NICHOLAS the sole Executor in this Will named having first personally renounced the probate and execution thereof) before me
William CRAWLEY? (Surrogate)
