Hewitt Family Wills
THOMAS HEWITT 1715
Note English dialect.this will has a lovely way it is done,I can imagine people sitting around his death bed and it being written down as he said.this will is covered with ink blotches and crossed out words
THOMAS HEWITT being goake and waeke in body but in good and parfitt memory,praised be the Lord forit dos rommitt my soul to the Lord woo gave it and my body to the earth and when the Lord pleases to tak me out of this liff and ond my days in poos with all men ass followeth.
I leave my eldest son WILLIAM HEWITT land of bodgisfeool and a marker of THOMAS JACKSON feool and likwis low atkorim toriggsham all after my decease but is mother thirds and likwis is mother must have all for too years {after he helps for two years[this part not clear]to bring up the young ones with and likwis I leave my son GEORGE the land of WILLIAM HONNEL that lyze in WILLIAM MANAUGHT feool and there arou in know and I leave my daughter ELIZABETH the money that eyoes of JOHN MANOUGHT marker of land and a days work of meadow which is just 22 pounds and ten shillings for a faine to rom on if he louses not the next lambs and likwiss.I leave my daughter REBECCA twenty pounds which is in money in GEORGES hands,likwiss I leave my wife and my youngest daughter KATHERIN therein all my immovable and moveable jointly together with horses gear corn and crop and if my son George rom for too years that that money that on Honnell land shall be divided among the younger children and likwiss if WILLIAM,s holding and GEORGE got land he his to give the money that is on HONNEL land.I leave to JOHN MORR all this years rent of OSTIN land but if that is laid out for sos and working of earth.
november 14th 1715
now here is debts owing to me to pay my daughter REBECCA with AMBROSE ATKINSON a note money--02 and a years ?
WILLIAM HODSON in ?? ten pounds and five shillings in a note and four years?
EDMUND HODSON in the eatfell town ten pounds
3 pounds my stepson WILLIAM RAE------ ows
EDWARD HOUGH of houghton 4 pounds for big? him at ??? to GEORGE GRAHAM of Rockliffe
3 pounds of rent of ROBERT and JAMES HEWITT
WILLIAM WILSON 25 shillings for rent
KENNET GRAHAM for rent and ploughing 19 shillings
WILLIAM ? borrowed money off me one pound ten shillings and ?got pour shillings and a happeny and I laid out for repair of the ?// of THOMAS GRAHAM of houghton 14 shillings.
Witnessed by ALLEN HEWITT,JAMES HEWITT,ROBERT HEWITT and JOHN HEWITT
It looks like this will was written By JOHN CALVERT Curate of Rckcliffe
Bond attached MARY HEWITT,ALLEN HEWITT and JOHN WILSON
Attached WILLIAM, GEORGE, ELIZABETH,REBECCA and KATHERINE HEWITT under age of consent and lawful children of THOMAS HEWITT
All to be held in trust By ALLEN HEWITT ,MARY HEWITT and another who is unreadable.
A true inventory of the goods and chattels of THOMAS HEWITT of Rockcliffe 29th December 1715
His apparel and house and furniture £4.0.0
Two old horses £2.10.0
Thirteen Hogs £1.0.0.
Five Cows £7.10.0
Five stirks £1.5.0
Bedstead and bedding £2.10.0
Pewter and brass £2.0.0
pots wooden vessels and racks £0.12.0
Cupboard and chests £2.10.0
Oats,Barley peat hay £10.0.0
Carts and ploughs harrows etc £1.0.0
A hog,dunghill and poultry £0.10.0
Funeral expense £5.0.0
owing to deceased £20.0.0
WILLIAM HEWITT jurat
ROBERT HEWITT "
FRANCIS GRAHAM "
WILLIAM HODSON "
JOHN CALVERT Curate of Rockcliffe
In the will Stepson WILLIAM RAE Legal father GEORGE HEWITT who died in 1728 At Rockcliffe