Will of Edward Bunning of Cosby, Leicestershire
Dated 18 March 1837 - Died 23 January 1839 - Probate 13 March 1839
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me Edward Bunning of Cosby in the County of Leicester Yeoman which I make in manner following that is to say I
give and devise All my Messuages Cottages Tenements Closes Lands and Hereditaments situate at Cosby aforesaid or in the Parish Lordship or Liberties
thereof and heretofore in the occupation of my Father late of myself and now of William Holland Thomas Bunning Thomas Hollick Thomas Cobley and Thomas
Yeomans And all other my Real Estate whatsoever Unto my friends William Hardy the Younger of Cosby aforesaid Butcher and William Clemens of Great Glenn in
the said County of Leicester Baker their Heirs and Assigns Upon trust that the said William Hardy and William Clemens and the Survivor of them his Heirs
and their or his Assigns do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease sell and dispose of my said Messuages Cottages Tenements Closes Land
Hereditaments and Real Estate by public auction or private contract and either altogether or in Lots and buy in and re sell the same at any future auction
or by private contract without being answerable for any diminution in price which may happen thereby
And as to the Monies to arise from the sale or sales of my said Messuages Cottages Tenements Closes Land Hereditaments and Real Estate and the Rents and
Profits thereof until the same shall be sold or the Purchases or respective Purchasers shall be entitled thereto Upon trust that the said William Hardy
and William Clemens and the Survivor of them his Heirs and their or his Assigns do and shall receive the same and stand possessed thereof upon the trusts
and for the intents and purposes hereinafter expressed and declared concerning the same that is to say Upon trust that the said William Hardy and William
Clemens and the Survivor of them his Heirs and their or his Assigns do and shall thereout in the first place pay all Principal and Interest Monies due on
Mortgage of my said Messuages Cottages Tenements Closes Land Hereditaments and Real Estate and in the next place pay all my just debts funeral and testamentary
expences
And as to the Residue of the said Trust Monies Upon trust that the said William Hardy and William Clemens and the Survivor of them his Heirs and their or
his Assigns do and shall place out the same on Government or Real Security in England and pay the Interest Dividends or Annual produce thereof unto my Wife
Elizabeth Bunning and her Assigns during her life by two equal half yearly payments
And immediately after the decease of my said Wife Upon trust that the said William Hardy and William Clemens and the Survivor of them his Heirs and their
or his Assigns do and shall pay one Moiety or equal half part of the said Trust Monies unto my son Samuel Bunning his Executors Administrators and Assigns
to and for his and their absolute use and benefit
And as to the other Moiety or equal half part of the said Trust Monies Upon trust that the said William Hardy and William Clemens and the Survivor of them
his Heirs and their or his Assigns do and shall pay and equally divide the same unto and between my Sons Thomas Bunning and William Bunning their respective
Executors Administrators and Assigns to and for his and their absolute use and benefit
And I hereby declare that the Person or Persons who shall become the Purchaser or Purchasers of all or any part of my said Messuages Cottages Tenements
Closes Land Hereditaments and Real Estate and shall pay his her or their purchase money or purchase monies or any part thereof to the said William Hardy
and William Clemens or the Survivor of them his Heirs or their or his Assigns and shall obtain his or their Receipt or Receipts for the same that such
Receipt or Receipts shall be a sufficient and effectual discharge or sufficient and effectual discharges for the same purchase monies respectively or so
much thereof respectively as in any such Receipt or Receipts should be expressed or acknowledged to be received and that the Person or Persons to whom
such Receipt or Receipts respectively should be given his her or their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns should not afterwards be answerable or
accountable for any loss misapplication or nonapplication or be in anywise obliged or concerned to see to the application of the money therein expressed
or acknowledged to be received or any part thereof
And I hereby declare that on the death refusal or incapacity to act of either of them the said William Hardy and William Clemens or of any Trustee or Trustees
to be appointed in his or their place or stead it shall be lawful for the acting Trustee or Trustees of this my Will or the Executors or Adminstrators of
the last acting Trustee to appoint a new Trustee or Trustees in the place or stead of such Trustee so dying refusing or becoming incapable to act as
aforesaid and thereupon the said Hereditaments Trust Estate and Premises shall be conveyed and assured so that the same may vest in such new Trustee or
Trustees jointly with the surviving or continuing Trustee or Trustees or solely as the case may require and in his her or their Heirs Executors Administrators
and Assigns to the uses upon the trusts and for the ends intents and purposes hereinbefore declared and that every such new Trustee shall have and may
exercise the same powers and authority as if he had been appointed a Trustee by this my Will
And that the Trustees appointed by this my Will or to be appointed as aforesaid shall not be answerable for the other of them or for the acts deeds or
defaults of the other of them nor for involuntary losses nor for money received under Receipts in which they shall join only for conformity
And that the present and every future Trustee shall and may reimburse themselves and each other out of the said trust Monies or out of any Monies that
may come into their Hands by virture of the Trusts of this my Will all costs and expences to be incurred by them in the execution of the Trusts aforesaid
or in anywise in relation thereto
I give and bequeath All my Household Goods and Furniture Money and Securities for Money Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever unto my said Wife to and
for her own absolute use and benefit
And I appoint the said William Hardy and William Clemens Executors of this my Will and hereby revoke all other Wills by me at any time heretofore made and
do declare this present writing contained on this and the two preceding sheets of paper to be my last Will and Testament
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand to the two preceding sheets and my Hand and Seal to this third and last sheet the eighteenth day of March
in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
Edward Bunning [seal]
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Edward Bunning the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his
request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto
Geo Bottrill
Elizabeth Cobley
Thomas Holyoak
13th March 1839. Let a Probate be made to William Hardy the Younger of Cosby Butcher and William Clements [in the Will spelt Clemens]of Great Glenn,
Tanner, and grazier, [in the Will called Baker] both in the County of Leicester, the joint Executors named in the Will of the deceased
They having been first duly sworn as well to the faithful execution of the Will as that the Testators Goods Chattels and Credits without deducting any
debts due and owing by him therefrom do not amount in value to the Sum one hundred pounds and that the deceased died on 23rd day of Jany last
Before me Jemson Davies - Serv. to the Archdn
Same Day Probate dated signed by J. Stockdale Hardy Reg.e
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Will of William Bunning of Cosby, Mullica Hill, New Jersey, USA
Dated 22 July 1873 - Died 27 July 1873
I William Bunning Sr of Mullica Hill in the Township of Harrison in the County of Gloucester and State of New Jersey being very feeble in body, but of
sound mind memory and understanding do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following; to wit
Item I do order and direct my Executor hereinafter named so soon after my decease as convenient to pay my funeral expenses and just debts.
Item I do give and bequeath to my brother Thomas Bunning Sr the sum of Two Hundred Dollars.
Item I do give and bequeath to my nephew Thomas Bunning Jr the sum of Two Hundred Dollars.
Item I do give and bequeath to my nephew and namesake William Bunning Jr the Sum of Two Hundred Dollars.
Item I do give and bequeath to my nephew David Bunning son of Thomas Bunning Sr the Sum of one Hundred and fifty dollars.
Item I do give and bequeath to my sister in law Rebecca Bunning wife of Thos. Bunning the sum of one Hundred Dollars.
Item I do give and bequeath to Sarah Williamson my carriage
Item I do give and bequeath to my niece Ann Martin the sum of Two Hundred Dollars.
Item I do give and bequeath to my niece Mary Cassaday the sum of Two Hundred Dollars minus the note I hold against her.
Item I do give and bequeath to Miss Voss my reputed daughter the sum of twenty pounds sterling.
Item I do give and bequeath to the mother of said Miss Voss the sum of twenty pounds sterling
Item I do give and bequeath to my brother Samuel Bunning Sr the sum of forty pounds sterling
Item I do give and bequeath to the wife of said Samuel Bunning Sr the sum of twenty pounds Sterling
Item I do give and bequeath to each of his two daughters, of the said Samuel Bunning Sr, the sum of forty pounds sterling
Item I do give and bequeath to the grand daughter (Bertha) of said Samuel Bunning Sr the sum of twenty pounds sterling
Item I do give and bequeath to Mrs Samuel Bunning Jr the sum of twenty pounds sterling
Item I do order and direct that the interest of the balance of my estate shall be paid to my half brother John Bunning during his natural life and at
the expiration of his natural life the principal to be paid to Samuel Theodore Bunning
Lastly I do name constitute and appoint my friend William Haines as my Executor of this my last will and testament.
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said William Bunning Sr to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who subscribe our names
at the testators request in the presence of the same and of each other this twenty second day of July A. D. 1873
Thomas P. Darlington
N. E. Jenkins
E. S. Stratton
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A true and perfect Inventory and appraisement of the personal estate of William Bunning Sr: late of the Township of Harrison in the county of Gloucester
and state of New Jersey deceased, made by William Haines Executor, and Thomas P. Darlington and Nathaniel E. Jenkins, two disinterested freeholders, this
5th. day of the 8th. month, Aug. A.D.1873. as follows. viz
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| Silver Watch | 5.00 |
| Chest and Clothing | 7.00 |
| Over Coat | 5.00 |
| Body Coat | 4.00 |
| Lot of shoes | 1.00 |
| Shaving Tackling &c | 1.00 |
| Box and notions | .75 |
| Cash on hand | 16.54 |
| Riding Carriage Specific Legacy to Sarah Williamson | 30.00 |
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| Note of hand against Stacy Lippincott dated Feb 22 1871 | balance | 30.15 |
| Note of hand against Mary Eastlack | balance | 2.00 |
| Bond against Cornly Gibson dated Feb. 27 1866 for $100 | balance | 51.50 |
| Bond E. L. Stratton & wife dated March 25. 1873 | Amount | 205.05 |
| Due Bill Nathaniel E. Jenkins at date | 102.32 |
| Bond John W Hazelton dated March 26. 1870 | Amount | 2870.22 |
| do. David Gomershall dated May 24. 1866 | Amount | 287.00 |
| do. do. do. dated April 13. 1868 | do. | 205.72 |
| Note Geo. B. Fox and Asa Coles dated July 25. 1872 | do. | 160.79 |
| do. Geo. Walter dated April 8. 1871 | " | 102.82 |
| do. Thos. P. Darlington dated Jan 10. 1872 | " | 103.99 |
| do Joseph Cassaday dated Jan 22. 1868 | | 100.00 |
| " A. Mason & Joshua Lippincott April 5. 1870 | | 102.33 |
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| Book acct. against David Gomershall | perhaps paid, or supposed doubtful | 133.00 |
| " Wm Aries | do | 25.00 |
| " Geo. Jennings | do | 5.00 |
| " N Campbell | do | 10.00 |
| " John Tearn | do | 110.00 |
| " C. Ballinger | do | 20.00 |
| " Jos. A Daniels | do | 50.00 |
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| Total amount of Inventory | 4394.18 |
Wm Haines Exr.
Thos. P. Darlington - Appraisers
N. E. Jenkins
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Transcription by L W (Bill) Bunning & Patricia A Bunning
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