Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present dayLanaghan, Mrs.
History
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day
Lanaghan, Mrs.
Antigua -- Description and travel; Antigua -- History
“Item, I give to my daughter Francis Curtis, all my estate, both
real and personal, either in Virginia or England, and the heirs
of her body, provided they shall call themselves by the name of
Parke, and for want of such heirs, to the heirs of the body of my
daughter Lucy Bird, and for want of such heirs, to the heirs of
the body of the youngest daughter, now living, of Mistress
Katharine Chester, and for want of such heirs, to the heirs of
the body of Julius Ceasar Parke, provided still, that whoever has
this my estate shall call themselves by the name of Parke, and in
case of failure of heirs, or that they refuse to call themselves
by the name of Parke, then my Will is, that my estate go to the
poor of the parish of White Church, in Hampshire, but my Will is,
that my daughter Francis Curtis pay out of my estate in Hampshire
and Virginia, the following legacies and all my debts, that is,
to my daughter Lucy Bird, one thousand pounds sterling; to my
godson Julius Ceasar Parke, fifty pounds sterling each year
during his life; to my three sisters and their children, fifty
pounds to buy them rings; and to my Executors, hereafter named in
England, each twenty pounds, and my Will is, that Thos. Long,
Esq. of this island, and Mister Ceasar Rodney, and Major Saml.
Byam, be my Executors in trust for the performance of what is to
be done with my estate in the Leeward Islands; and that Micajah
Perry, Esq., Mister Thomas Laws, and Mr. Richard Perry, of
London, merchant, be Executors in trust for the performance of
what is to be done in England and Virginia, and I doe hereby
Revoke all former Wills, Declaring this to be my last Will and
Testament, being writ with all my owne hand, signed and sealed in
St John’s, in Antigua, the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the
year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred nine and ten.
“Sealed, published, and Declared to be his Will and Testament,
Daniel Parke.
“In the presence of us,
“Herbert Pember,
“John Birmingham,
“William Martin.
“December the seventh. One thousand seven hundred and ten, I doe
appoint in the room of Collonel Thos. Long, deceased, Mister
Abraham Redwood to be one of my Executors in trust, to see this
my Will performed.
“Daniel Parke.
“By the Honourable Walter Hamilton, Esq., Lieut-Gen. and
Commander-in-Chief in and over all her Majesty’s Leeward Charibbe
Islands in America, and ordering of the same for the time being,
December twentieth, One thousand seven hundred and ten.
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