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1798 HANDWRITTEN WILL of RICHARD DODD, RECTOR of COWLEY, MIDDLESEX COUNTY
1798 HANDWRITTEN WILL of RICHARD DODD, RECTOR of COWLEY, MIDDLESEX COUNTY
1798 HANDWRITTEN WILL of RICHARD DODD, RECTOR of COWLEY, MIDDLESEX COUNTY

1798 HANDWRITTEN WILL of RICHARD DODD, RECTOR of COWLEY, MIDDLESEX COUNTY

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    HANDWRITTEN WILL of RICHARD DODD, RECTOR of COWLEY, MIDDLESEX COUNTY. DATED MAY 13, 1798.
    Single-Fold Sheet to make four pages, handwritten on the front page and on the two inner pages.
    Written on laid-paper with the WATERMARK “ALLEE 1796”.
    The writing is bright and clear, though the calligraphy is somewhat difficult. There are numerous folds from where the will had been folded into a small size, there is some edge wear including a few small closed edge tears. Still a solid, clean, manuscript Will.
    Here is my transcription of the manuscript Will (pardon my errors):
    “I Richard Dodd Rector of Cowley in the County of Middlesex revoking all other wills, do make this my last will and Testament.  Imprimo:  I appoint my dear wife Eliz. Dodd & the Revd. Philip S. Dodd my second son the joint executors & the administrators of this my said will desiring & ordering that they will within  in one twelve month of my decease or before of they think proper buy & transfer & place two thousand pounds ________ in the name &  for the use of my son William Dodd & likewise that they buy & place the same sum in the same stock in the name of & for the use of my daughter Frances Margaret Dodd. That they assign and make over  to them likewise these shares.  In the Middlesex _______________ that_______________ / _______________ / names of William / _______________, Dodd _______________. The rest & residue of my property, be it of whatever kind I leave to my dear wife desiring that she will  leave it to her children.  Elizabeth Philip & Charles such shares & proportions as she shall think right & proper (trusting she will not whilst living or at her death leave any improper partiality of  she regards the memory of a Dear affectionate husband who look unwearied pains to save her of them from the distrust she in early life experienced from.  The inability of a most excellent Father and afford him any _______________  I sign this on the thirteenth of May in the Year of our Lord  one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight.—Rich Dodd.”
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