Will: Creagh, John February 21, 1704 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Limerick Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com September 8, 2017, 6:16 am CREAGH, JOHN FEBRUARY 21, 1704 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: February 21, 1704 Recorded: September 8, 2017 In the Name of God Amen I John Creagh Fitzpierce of the City of Limerick Merchant being sick in Body but of perfect sense and memory doe make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following (that is to say) I bequeath my Soul to God Almighty and my Body to be buried in Christian like manner as to my loving Wife Clara Creagh shall be thought meet and since I have no substance but a few Trumpery being of no great Value I bequeath all to my said Wife Item I bequeath seven pounds sterling to my Son in Law Nicholas Stritch to be paid to him by my said Wife out of the money due of Stephen Stritch of London when the Debt is recovered of him Item I bequeath unto the said Nicholas Stritch his Children the Sum of Three hundred Pounds Sterling to be paid by my Wife to the said Nicholas for their Use out of the Debett that I had in the late King James's time (if ever recovered) and the remaining part of the said Debet to herself And whereas my Cousin John Sexton (being Coexecutor with me of the last Will and Testament of my Son in Law Patrick Sexton) challenges about a small broken gold Jewell worth about Seven Shillings Sterling and about two ounces of Amber being of the Children's Property being all that I had of their Effects in my hands both which said broken gold Jewell and two Ounces of Amber are still in being And I do declare that there is fifty Shillings due to me on Account of the Children And I doe further declare that there are Eight dozen of Plate Buttons weighing about Eight Ounces belonging to the Children in the hands of John Sexton aforesaid which I lent him Item it is my will that if the said Seven Pounds be paid to the said Nicholas Stritch that then he shall nothing to do with the Distilling Pott that is in my possession Item it is my Will that my Wife Clara Creagh shall see me decently buried though I have no Substance to leave her not yet to defray my funerall Expences as Witness my hand and Seal the 21st February 1704 John Creagh being present at the signing sealing and declaring hereof Thomas Stretch John Arthur And I the within Testator John Creagh doe further declare that I owed Stephen Creagh of Limerick late Clerk or Attorney the Sum of Thirteen Pounds Sterling and that I paid Twenty Pounds in his behalf to Mrs Whittamore and that he owed me Eleven Pounds in Debt by Booke Account and that I had Two and twenty pounds Abatement from the Corporation about Corcancanzee which the said Stephen Creagh and Mr Patrick Nichol received witness my hand the day and year within written John Creagh being present Thomas Stretch John Arthur 31 October 1712 Administration with Will annexed to Clara Creagh Widow PCC Prob11/529