JADWYN, THOMAS
4 November 1626
proved 5 March 1627
citizen and cutler of London
To the poor of the parish wherein I am a parishioner forty shillings. I forgive to Daniel
Colwall my apprentice the last year of his term. To my son Robert Jadwyn, who I
pray to bless and reform, the sum of five pounds and a feather bed and such other
household stuff as my executrix shall think good to give him. To my daughters Hanna
Dunscombe and Susanna Sharrowe, to either of them three pounds to dispose
of as they please, and to be paid unto their own hands within one year next after my
decease. To Jadwin Dunscombe, my daughter Hannah her son, twenty marks at
his age of twenty one years. To Philip and Thomas Dunscombe, his brothers, five
pounds each at twenty one. I am seized and possessed of and in three several messuages
or tenements called or known by the names of the Unicorn, the Saracen's Head and in the
Crown, in the parish of St George in Southwark in the county of Surry (the messuage
called Saracen's Head divided into several tenements). These to my wife Elizabeth
during her natural life; then to my son Robert and his lawful heirs; next to my daughters
Hanna and Susanna and their heirs; failing such then to the Master, Wardens and
Commonalty of the cutlers of London forever. To my son Robert all my lands in
Virginia except such lands there as is or shall be allotted to go with my two shares in the
Sommer Islands. These two shares and the land going with them to my son in law
Thomas Dunscombe, Hanna his wife, Philip and Thomas their sons, to have
and to hold for one hundred years if they or any of them or any issue from them or any of
them shall so long live and dwell and abide in the said Sommer Islands, yielding and
paying therefor yearly only ten pounds weight of tobacco at the Feast of St Michael, the
Archangel, and paying and discharging all other charges and impositions which from time
to time during the said term shall be lawfully taxed and imposed upon the said land. My
wife Elizabeth to be executrix. The overseers to be the Master and Wardens of the
said Mystery and Commonalty of Cutlers of London.
witnesses:
Thomas Coffyn
DANIEL Colwell