Will: Niel, John May 19, 1809

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File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com January
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WILL: NIEL, JOHN MAY 19, 1809

Source: National Archives Kew England
Written: May 19, 1809
Recorded: January 8, 2017

In the Name of God Amen I John Niel belonging to
Arlingford in the County of Kilkenny Ireland being
now a prisoner of war in Arras France but .... Mariner
on board the Jane of Glasgow Merchantman (Master
Alexander Keltner) being now in Arras Hospital very
weak in health but of perfect reason thanks be to
God calling unto mind the mortality of my body and
knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to die
do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament
that is to say principally and first of all I give and
recommend my Soul into the hand of Almighty God
that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth
to be buried in christian burial at the discretion of my
Executor nothing doubting but at the general Day of
judgement I shall receive the same again by the
mighty power of God and as touching such worldly
Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in
this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the
following manner In the first place I do appoint
William Flynn now a Prisoner of War in Arras formerly
my Shipmate on board the Jane of Glasgow (Master
Alexander Keltner) to my Executor of this my last Will
and Testament and to dispose of my Property in the
following manner to receive all sum or sums of
money whatsoever with full interest thereon which is
now in the hands of John Sparrier belonging to Pool
in the County of Dorsetshire & do bequeath as
follows to my three Brothers and one Sister
Lawrence Edmund Kyran and Catherine Niel all of
Arlingford in the County of Kilkenny Ireland to receive
equally and legally the sole of whatever sum or Sums
of money that may come into the hands of my
Executor to be proportionably shared amongst them I
do utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every
other former Testament Will Legacy Bequest or
powers by me in any ways before named willed and
bequeathed ratifying & confirming this and no other
to be my last Will & Testament In witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand & Seal this nineteenth
Day of May one thousand eight hundred and nine in
Arras Hospital in the presence of the
undermentioned witnesses John Neail _ Richd Butler _
Martin Bergin _William Flinn
Proved at London 14 June 1814
PCC Prpb11/1557