| Title | A messuage the Pasture, the Calf Close, Little Close etc, Brackenfield:
Copy will of Enoch Stevenson of Badger Lane in the parish of Ashover yeoman. To eldest son John Stevenson, testator's farm at Holmgate in the parish of North Wingfield (tenant Thomas Handbury), testator's farm at Brackenfield (tenant Jonathan Johnson), the closes at Wessington called the Old Pastures, and a messuage, croft, and premises at Woolley Moor in the parish of North Wingfield (tenant James Crofts); to son Joseph Stevenson, testator's farm at Badger Lane, and the Far Dole and the Near Dole in Ashover, and testator's farm at High Moors in Ashover parish, and all testator's lands at the Hay in Ashover, to hold in fee simple, with the proviso that George Stevenson (son of testator) may enter upon the premises at Badger Lane if Joseph defaults on a bond in £700 to George; to son Joseph, possession and tenant right to the mill, lands, and premises which testator holds as tenant of Ralph Hodgkinson; to daughter Elizabeth, testator's best bed and furniture belonging to it; to daughter Mary, second best bed and furniture belonging to the same; to daughter Mary Prince and grandson John Prince equally and undividedly all leasehold messuages and tenements at Young Street, Little Sheffield (co. York); to John Walker of Wessington labourer, a messuage and a close called the How Lant at Dicklant in the parish of Ashover in trust to pay yearly for ever on 27 December 21s to the churchwardens of Ashover for the maintenance of the Sunday schools, and in trust to pay residue of income each year towards the maintenance of Mary Cocker, an illegitimate child who now lives with testator, until she is 21, and then to convey the real estate to Mary for ever; if Mary dies before 21, then income from the land to go to children of testator's son Joseph, subject to the yearly payment as above. To sons John and Joseph, all remaining estate real and personal subject to the payment of an annuity of £20 to testator's son-in-law Joseph Wilcovkson and Betty his wife, testator's daughter, during the term of their lives and the longer liver; to the child or children of Betty, £500; to son George, £500; sons John and Joseph to be executors.
Dated 22 March |