WILL OF MAKY WEDGWOOD. 83 



November, in the fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King 

 George, Sovereign of Great Britain, &c., Anno Domini 1718. 



"KicHAED "WEDGWOOD, his X mark. 



" Signed, sealed, published, and declared to be and contain the last 

 will and Testament of Richard Wedgwood the Testator, and after- 

 wards attested in his sight by Margaret Richards, Margaret Wedg- 

 wood, Thomas Bourne." 



" Proved 23 rd April, 1719, on the Oath of Catherine "Wedgwood, 

 Executrix." 



The second son of Thomas and Margaret, Thomas Wedg- 

 wood, was born in 1660, and married, in 1684, Mary Leigh. 

 He resided, and had his pot-works close to the church- 

 yard at Burslem, where they still exist. By his wife, Mary 

 Leigh, he had a family of four sons and five daughters. The 

 sons, as named in her will, dated 1718, are Thomas (the 

 father of the great Josiah Wedgwood), John (a son Abner 

 appears to have died young) , Aaron, and Daniel ; and the 

 daughters Catherine, married to her relative, Dr. Thomas 

 Wedgwood, jun. ; Alice, married to Thomas Moore ; Eliza- 

 beth, married to Samuel Astbury; Margaret, married to 

 Moses Marsh ; and Mary, married to Kichard Clifton. Mary 

 Wedgwood (Mary Leigh) survived her husband, and by her 

 will, dated January 1st, 1718, devised her personality as will 

 be seen in the following interesting document : 



" In the name of God, Amen, the first day of January, Anno 

 Domini 17 18. I, Mary Wedgwood, of the Churchyard, in the parish 

 of Burslem, in the County of Stafford, widow, Being weak of body, 

 But of sound and perfect disposing mind and memory, thanks be 

 therefore given to the Almighty for the same, Doe make and 

 ordaine this to be and containe my last will and testament, In 

 manner and fforme ffollowing (that is to say) ffirst and principally 

 I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator, 

 hopeing through the merritts, death, and passion of my Saviour 

 Jesus Christ, to receive free and full pardon of all my sins, and to 

 Inheritt Life eternall, and my body to be decently Interred accord- 

 ing to the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named. And for 

 such Temporall Estate it hath pleased God out of his superabounding 

 goodness to bestow upon me, I give and devise the same as follows. 



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