WILL OF THOMAS WEDGWOOD. 81 



preach my funeral, sermon. I give unto my Cousin George Hawson 

 of Wolstanton,.12/. ; my debts, legacies, & funeral expences, & all 

 such monies as shall be necessary to be expended about the due 

 execution of this my last will & testament being first paid and 

 discharged. I do for the better education & maintainance of my five 

 younger children until they shall respectively accomplish the said 

 age of twenty-one years, or be married, or receive their portions, 

 & for the due maintainance of my wife's livelihood & subsistence 

 during her widowhood, give unto my executors herein named all 

 the residue & remainder of my personal estate, my goods, monies, 

 plate, cattle, chattels, & personal estate whatsoever ; & my will is 

 my said youngest children shall be educated & maintained out of the 

 same residue & remainder of my said personal estate aforesaid. My 

 mind & will further is that what remains of the said residue of my 

 personal estate after my wife's estate or interest therein determined 

 & my said children educated as aforesaid, shall go to be equally 

 divided amongst all my said seven children. Lastly, I do hereby 

 nominate, constitute, & appoint Margaret my loving wife, and my 

 said Son John, & my said Son Thomas Wedgwood, to be the 

 executors of this my last Will & Testament, hoping they will 

 faithfully perform the same ; & interest my loving friends the said 

 M r Geo. Hargreaves & Geo. Hawson to be overseers of this my 

 last will & testament & to aiding & assisting my said executors. 

 In witness thereof I the said Thomas Wedgwood have hereunto 

 set my hand & seal the day and year first mentioned in this my 



last will. 



" THOMAS WEDGWOOD. 



" Signed, sealed, published & declared to be & contain the last will 

 and testament of me the said Tho s - Wedgwood, in presence of, & 

 all the interlineations done before the sealing thereof, in presence 

 of Geo. Hargreaves & Geo. Hawson." 



" Proved 4 th April, 1679, on the Oath of Margaret Wedgwood, 

 widow, John Wedgwood, & Tho s - Wedgwood, the Executors named 

 therein." 



The eldest son of Thomas and Margaret, to whom I have 

 alluded, was John, who appears to have been born in 1654, 

 and to have died in 1705. He married in 1679, and had by 

 his wife, Alice, a daughter, Catherine, who married her 

 cousin Eichard, of the " Overhouse " branchd and had by 



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