Swanage Wills

Thomas Collins, Blacksmith of Sandwich, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset (died intestate)
Administration bond:

Condition: that Anne Collins, ‘Relict’ and administrator of the goods of Thomas Collins,
deceased to make an inventory of the goods of the deceased by 1 May next and make an
account of her administration by 1 February next

Ann Collins X her mark
Witnesses: William Korridge, James Tarrey?, William Stevens? [his mark], John ‘wolinsu ?’

Inventory: made 17 February 1687/88 by William Belle his mark, William Stevens

Thomas Collins died 2 February 1687/88

Richard Brine, Yeoman of Sandwich, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 8 February 1723/24

- ‘being in a sick and weak condition of body’

- Elizabeth and Sarah (daughters): feather bed each. Also that they ‘shall quietly live’ and inhabit
  the ‘West End of my house which I now live in as long as they shall live unmarried and if please God
  any one or either of these my children…doth die that their children shall…as long as their lives
  last now upon the same’

- Ann (daughter): shall live in the West part of my house with her other sisters Elizabeth and Sarah
  as long as she ‘keeps herself a widow. If they marry that the unmarried shall surrender the West End
  of my house without disturbance’

Joint Executors: William, Richard and Thomas and Mary, Ann, Margaret, Elizabeth and
Sarah (sons and daughters)
Witnesses: James Brown, Thomas Burden, Robert Haysom (x)
Proved: 27 July 1727

James Keat of Sandwich, Dorset
Dated: 25 November 1738

-‘being written by my own hand’

- John (eldest brother): bankers and boathals in Sandwich and house in Sandwich for his life
  and for the other lives upon it

- Joseph (brother): £5

- Richard (brother): £5 paid by my executor ‘out of the money he of me’, and ‘all the kit’ I have in the
  house and garden at Langton that was my father’s.

- John son of John (brother): bankers and boathals in Sandwich after the death of John (brother).
  £30 when 21 years old

- Marey Keat eldest ‘daster’ [daughter] of John (brother): £60 when 21 years. My house in Sandwich
  if she outlives her father for the remainder of the life. Gold ring.

- Ann Keat youngest ‘daster’ [daughter] of John (brother): £50 when 21 years

- John Keat (brother): rest

Executor: John Keat (brother)
Signed by testator
Proved: 1746
Inventory of goods of James Keat deceased: dated 16 May 1746, by Ja: Dolling, senior and Henry Pye

Joane Bower widow
Dated: 18 November 1735

- Joshua and Benjamin Bower (my two sons) and Ann Phippard (daughter): dwelling house, garden,
  orchard, back-side and ground belonging jointly between them.

- Joshua and Benjamin (sons): ‘the quarries equally between them but if the one digs a quarry and
  not the other he that digs shall pay nothing to him that does not’

- Benjamin (son): ‘banker by the water side near the bridge’

Executor: [none given]
Signed by testator with mark ‘B’
Witnesses: Lewis Cole, Elizabeth Cole
Proved: 23 October 1747 by Ann Phippard wife of Anthony, having been sworn to administer the goods
of Joan Bower, widow, deceased of Sandwich, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset before John Goulden, Curate
of Sandwich

Administration bond: 23 October 1747
Peter Camell, Mercer of Sandwich and Lewis Cole, barber surgeon of Sandwich bound to £100.
Condition: Ann Phippard to administer etc. the goods of Joan Bower, widow deceased.
Signed: Peter Camell, Lewis Cole
Witnesses: John Goulden, Lewis Cole, junior

William Carter, Marbler of Sandwich, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
 Dated: 23 May 1747

- Thomas (son): the Living I now live in for his life. If John Sanders outlives Thomas (son) then
  Living goes to Elizabeth Sanders, Ann Coffen, ‘Ann’ Parlet and ‘Sarra’ Carter (my 4 ‘dasters’ [daughters])
  during John Sanders’ (grandson) life. Rent to be divided between my daughters.

- Grace (wife): 1s

- Thomas (son): chest, bed with furniture ‘that I do now lie upon’

- Ann Coffen (daughter): cupboard and feather bed

- Elizabeth Sanders (daughter): pewter dish

- ‘Mary’ Parlet (daughter): pewter dish or platter

- Ann Coffen and ‘Sarra’ Carter (daughters): the orchard during Elizabeth Sanders and John Carter’s lives

- John Carter (son): 1s

- ‘my desire is for my daughter Sara Carter to live in the house till my son Thomas Carter is married
  or till he lives in it himself without any denial and my desire is for my daughter Sara Carter to pay for
  my berring’

- Sara Carter (‘beloved’ daughter): residue

Executrix: Sara Carter (daughter)
Signed by testator with ‘C’ mark
Witnesses: Mary Foott, Daniel Masters
Proved: 4 November 1747 by oath of Sarah Carter

Inventory of goods of William Carter, deceased of Sandwich taken 7 October 1747 by Robert Roe
and David Hibbs. Exhibited by Sarah Carter 4 November 1747.

Anthony Phipard, Seaman of Sandwich, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 13 March 1723/2

- Ann (‘present wife’): all

Executrix: Ann (wife)
Witnesses: ‘Beniam Bower’, B[?] Bower (X),James Brown
Proved: 1750

Lewis Coleof Sandwich, Dorset
Dated: 28 August 1759 [in Lewis Cole’s own hand]

- Grace Blockley (granddaughter): £50 in 6 months

- William Blockley (grandson): £10 when 21 years

- Jeremiah Warren (grandson): £10 when 21 years

- Ann (daughter) wife of Lewis Warren: leasehold house with the shops, Custom House, out houses
  and garden in Sandwich for the rest of the term. Also my banker or piece of land ‘being by the seaside
  in Sandwich known as the Key’ forever.

- Lewis Cole (son): lands at Witchampton, forever

- Lewis Cole (son), Ann Warren (daughter) and Grace Blockley (granddaughter): residue

Executor and Executrix: Lewis Cole (son) and Ann Warren (daughter)
Signed by testator
Witness: Jonathan Cole
Proved: 1761