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1. Will [3pages] dated 2 April 1832 .
Beneficiaries: Daniel Rees, friend, in trust, £600 to be laid out at interest and the interest paid out to wife, Anne, by equal half yearly payments. On her death the capital is to be disposed as follows:
£100 each to sons, Howell and Morgan and to daughters Mary, Margaret and Elizabeth with the final £100 being held in trust, at interest. The interest to be used for the support maintenance and education of the children of daughter, Anne Powell, with the capital being divided amongst them equally on their reaching 21 or on their marriage.
To Son, Howell, £300
To daughters, Mary and Margaret, £600 each plus all his farming stock and implements and his household effects to be equally divided between them. Also a further £400 in trust to be laid out at interest to pay his daughter Anne £10 per year for her own use with the rest of the interest going to her children. The children to receive the capital on the death of their mother.
All his messuages, lands and real estate to go to son, Morgan. Subject to the settlement of the legacies and the agreement in the deed of Settlement for £400 made prior to the marriage of daughter Elizabeth. And also payment of his debts and funeral expenses.

Executrixes: daughters Mary and Margaret .

This is a copy will with no mark or signature by the testator

Witnesses: No witness names supplied on the copy.

Date of Probate: 25 February 1837 .

2. Inventory: none but coversheet endorsed and heavily underlined '£2000'.

Observations:

It seems that John Jones owned property in more than one diocese and his daughters should have registered the will in the prerogative court of Canterbury. Their failure to do so resulted in the 2 sheet Monition to the Achdeacon of Brecon and his officials which is included with these documents. Includes 2 coversheets the second endorsed 'Original will and commission sent to Messrs Slade, Doctors Commons, London per mail' and signed by the clerks of the Archdeacon's Court; 7 sheets in all.