Archideaconal Will 1780 Lezayre #66, of Quayle Curphy

From MM RB588

Capt Quayle Curphy; dated 1 feb 1780 on cover
[very cramped & small hand not always clear on microfim]
I make this my last will & testm
to Q. Xtian the little gun that is half stock
Do Postlewaites of trade & commerce and Fisher's arithmetic
Do a Bible & Baies [] the bed & its furniture
to Jenny a chest of Drawers (mahogany) in the chick room flutr
Do the new red bed & furniture of same
to Q & Jenny al the chairs & tables & glapes both of comds goods & all beds & [] of us bott at same time
also the china of every kind bott of  [] goods all also all the linen bott of same
to Quayle & Jonny all my cash bonds & notes for cash & all the plate bot of same
to Do & Do all my day young cattle
to Betty a smal chest of drawers in the great room one Do fine and the common part
to Do 2 of my 2d best milk cows & one press bed all these my my daughter Janes children
to my dutifull son Jon Curphy all the rest of my effects moveable & immoveable
& I appoint him my exor & to any one that may claim I leave 6d to each
and all these things to them & him after my dear wife's dessute & no sooner & I insist and that he'll have me buried in
that plantation of firs behind the haggarth where my bones may rest in peace undisturbed & that I may be buried
only in the morning without any expence in meat & drink
as wittness my hand this of January 1780
Quayle Curphey

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