Jesse Curling married Elizabeth Hallum 16 Jun 1770 at Rotherhithe by Licence. There was an Elizabeth Hallum baptized 20 Feb 1734 at Rotherhithe St Mary daughter of Edward and Ann Hallum. There was an Edward Hallum who married an Ann Smith 12 Oct 1728 at St Nicholas Cole Abbey in London.
Using the surnames Smithers and Rand I was not able to discover anything further.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 20 Jul 2019
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/1041/326
Testator: Elizabeth Blake, Widow
Place: Dover, Kent
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 7 Sep 1776, probated 4 May 1778
[Margin]: Elizabeth Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen:
2 I Elizabeth Blake of the Town and Port of Dover in
3 the County of Kent widow being Mindful of my Mortality
4 do make and ordain this my last Will and Testam[en]t
5 in manner and form following (that is to say) First
6 I give and bequeath unto my Kinswoman Mary
7 Rand Spinster Daughter of my late Niece Sarah Rand
8 deceased the sum of five hundred pounds of lawful Money
9 of Great Britain And I also give unto her the said
10 Mary Rand all my wearing apparel whatsoever of every
11 sort and kind Also I give and bequeath unto my Niece
12 Elizabeth Curling the Wife of Jesse Curling of the parish of
13 Saint Mary Rotherhithe in the County of Surry Mariner the
14 sum of one hundred pounds of lawful Money of Great
15 Britain And I give to my Kinswoman Ann Smithers
16 spinster daughter of my late Niece Ann Smithers
17 deceased the sum of fifty pounds of like lawful
18 money the said several Money Legacies to be respectively
19 paid within three Months next after my decease Also
20 I give and bequeath all my silver plate whatsoever
21 of what kind or Nature soever the same may be
22 unto my said Niece Elizabeth Curling and my said
23 Kinswoman Mary Rand equally to be divided between
24 them share and share alike And as to all the rest and
25 residue of my Goods Chattels Effects Debts due and is
26 owing to me Money Securities for Money and all other
27 my personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and
28 of what Kind or Nature soever the same may be at
29 the time of my decease (after payment and Satisfaction
30 of all my just debts Funeral Expences the Legacies
31 aforesaid and the Charges of proving and Executing this
32 my Will I do give and bequeath the same and every
33 part thereof unto my Sister Martha Legard Widow
34 and my said Kinswoman Mary Rand equally to be
35 divided between them the said Martha Legard and Mary
36 Rand share and share alike And I make constitute
37 and Appoint my said Niece Elizabeth Curling and my
38 said Kinswoman Mary Rand Executrices of this my last
39 Will and Testament And lastly I revoke all former
40 Wills by me made In Witness whereof I the said
41 Elizabeth Blake have to this my last Will and
42 Testament set my hand and Seal the seventh day of
43 September in the sixteenth year of the Reign of our
44 Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God
45 of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender
46 of the Faith etc and in the year of our Lord one
47 Thousand seven hundred and seventy six Elizabeth Blake
48 Signed Sealed published and declared by the said
49 Elizabeth Blake as and for her last Will and Testament
50 in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed
51 our Names as Witnesses thereto in her presence at her
52 request and in the presence of each other Thomas
53 Tournay Thos Middleton
54 This Will was proved at London the fourth
55 day of May in the year of our Lord one
56 thousand Seven hundred and seventy eight before the
57 worshipful Francis Simpson Doctor of Laws and
58 Surrogate of the Right Worshipful Sir George Hay
59 Knight also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or
60 Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
61 lawfully constituted by the oaths of Elizabeth Curling
62 Wife of Jesse Curling and Mary Rand Spinster the
63 Executrises named in the said Will to whom
64 administration was granted of all and singular the
65 Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having
66 been first Sworn duly to administer
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