Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 329 pages of information about Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe.

Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 329 pages of information about Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe.
for life; and if either John or Charles succeed to the Baronet’s title, the annuity to go over to the other; but if their sister survive, she to have only L200 per annum; also four annuities, of L50 each, to four of her female friends or neighbors.  All these annuities are charged on the Cranham estate, which she gives in trust to Sir George Allanson Wynne, Bart., and Mr. Granville Sharpe, for the use of her nephew, Sir Thomas Apreece, of Washingley, Co.  Huntingdon, for life, remainder in tail to his issue male or female, remainder to his brothers John and Charles, and sister Dorothy, successively, remainder to her own right heirs.  The manor of Canewdon Hall, Essex, to be sold to pay legacies, viz.:  L100 to Sir G.A.  Wynne; L1000 to the Princess of Rohan, related to her late husband; L500 to the Princess de Ligne, her late husband’s niece; L1000 to Samuel Crawley, Esq., of Theobalds, Co.  Herts; L500 among the Miss Dawes’s, of Coventry; L500 to James Fitter, Esq., of Westminster; L500 to the Marquis of Bellegarde.  The manor of Fairstead Hall, Co.  Essex, to Granville Sharpe, for life, paying L50 per annum to his friend Mr. Marriott, relict of General Marriott, of Godalming, and to settle the said estate to charitable uses after his death, at his discretion.  To Edward Lloyd and Sarah his wife, her servants, L500; and L10 each, to other servants.  By a codicil:  to Maria Anne Stephenson L1000 stock out of any of her property in the funds; to Miss Lewis, who lives with Mrs. Fowle, in Red-lion square, and to Miss Billinghurst, of Godalming, L50 each; to the poor of Cranham, Fairstead, Canewdon, and Godalming, L20 each; her turn of patronage to the united livings of St. Mary Somerset and St. Mary Mounthaw, in London, to the Rev. Mr. Herringham, of South Weald.  By another codicil, L1000 more to the Marquis of Bellegarde; L1000 to Count Bethisy; L200 to Granville Sharpe.  By another, revokes the legacies to the Princess de Ligne and Count Bethisy, and gives them to the two younger daughters of the Marquis of Bellegarde, at the age of 21, or marriage.  As the Marquis resides in France, and it may be inconvenient to him to keep the estate, she gives the manors of Westbrook and Brimscombe, and Westbrook-place in Godalming, in trust to G. Sharpe, and William Gill, Esqrs., and their heirs, to be sold, and the money paid to the Marquis.  Her executors are Mr. Granville Sharpe, and Mrs. Sarah Dickinson, of Tottenham; the latter residuary legatee.

At the foot of the monument erected to the memory of General Oglethorpe, was added the following inscription: 

“His disconsolate Widow died October 26,1787,
in her 79th year,
and is buried with him,
in the vault in the centre of this Chancel. 
Her fortitude of mind and extensive charity
deserve to be remembered,
though her own modesty would desire them to
be forgotten.”

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