MRP: John Portman junior will
John Portman junior will
PROB 11/349 Dycer 106-147 Will of John Portman of Quedah, India 20 December 1675
Editorial history
21/02/12, CSG: Created page
Contents
Abstract & context
Suggested links
See 25th March 1666/67, Letter from John Portman to Sir GO, London (father of John Portman, junior)
See Quedda
To do
(1) Proof this transcription
(2) Look at the two PROB 18 probate legal dispute documents following John Portman jun's death
Transcription
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN This Thirtieth of October one Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy One I John Portman now Residing in Quedah in India being sickly but in good and perfect memory And calling to mind the uncertaine Estate of this Transitory life Doe make Constitute ordaine and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following Revoaking and annulling by these presents all and every Testament and Testaments Will and Wills heretofore by me made and declared either by word or writing And this to be taken for my last Will and Testament and noe other
IMPRIMIS I committ my Soule unto Almighty God my Saviour and Redeemer and my Body to the Grave to be buried decently.
As for my Estate I order and dispose it in manner and forme following
I give and bequeath To my Brother George Portman ffifty pounds I give and bequeath to my sister Hannah Portman Tenne Pounds I give and bequeath to my sister mary Portman Tenn pounds I give and bequeath to M:r John fflatman ffive pounds I give and bequeath to ??Mulleck ?Mawund Two hundred and Thurty Rupees to be paid in Surat The Remainder of my Estate (the prementioned Legacies being paid) I will and desire may safely and carefully be sent and Delivered to my ffather M:r John Portman of London Goldsmith And
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for the better performance of the same I Constitute and appoint my very Loveing ffreind M:r Charles James now residing in Surat my true and lawfull Executor to see the premisses Executed and send home to my aforesaid ffather whatsoever can be made appeare to belong or apperteing unto mee
IN WITNES whereof I have sett my hand and seale the day and yeare above written.
JOHN PORTMAN
In Presence of George Davies Charles Ward John fflatman
DECESIMO DUE Mensis Decembris Anno Smi Millimo Sexcentesimo Septuagisimo ?Quinto ?Emannavit Commissio Elizabeth Portman ?sorori naturali et Legitima Johannis Portman ?imper in Judys oreintas in portibus ?Trensmarinis Calebis defunct duranti Hen:tis xr Ad Administrand bona jurat Credita dict defunct duranti absentia Caroli James Ex:toris in hummor Testo ?norat Juxta tonorem et effectum Testi exxxxx Def:t de bene fideliter Administrand ead:m Ad Seta Dei Evangekia Jurat XXXX Ad:mis bonoX ipsus defuncti tanguam ab intestato decredid Johannis Portman Patri defuncti Mense July Anno Dmi Millimo Sexcentotesimo
Notes
St Mary, Woolnoth parish registers
BAPTISMS
"'?YEAR: Nov, 7. Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Portman, " (p. 45) (FIRST WIFE)
"[BAPTISM] [1644] Jan. 17. Mary, daughter of John and Mary Portman, Goldsmith."[1]
"[BAPTISM] [1646] May 29. John, son of John and Mary Portman, Goldsmith."[2]
"1647 Mar. 28. George, son of John and Mary Portman, Goldsmith." (p. 47)
"1651 Oct. 30. Mary, daughter of John and Mary Portman, Goldsmith. " (p. 49)
"?1671: Dyed, George Portman, Goldsmith, bur. July 25." (p. 237)
"1674: Nov. 8. Dyed, Mrs. Mary Portman, wife to John Portman, Deputy of Ward of Lamborne, bur. Nov. r3. " (p. ?)
"1683: ?Nov. 15: Mr. John Portman, Goldsmith, from the Parish of St. Brides London, in Sir John Parcivall's Vault." (p. 249)
Suggested primary sources
TNA
PROB 11/349 Dycer 106-147 Will of John Portman of Quedah, India 20 December 1675
PROB 18/4/105 Probate lawsuit Portman v Portman, concerning the deceased John Portman, bachelor of Quedah [Quetta ?], East Indies. Allegation 1672
- ↑ Mary Portman, daughter of John and Mary Portman, appears to have been the first child born to John Portman's second wife, Mary. According to J.R. Woodhead, Mary Portman was the daughter of Philip Wergan of Dean, Gloucester J.M.S. Brooke, A.W.C. Hallen, The transcript of the registers of the united parishes of S. Mary Woolnoth and S. Mary Woolchurch..1658 to 1760 (London, 1886), p. 46
- ↑ J.M.S. Brooke, A.W.C. Hallen, The transcript of the registers of the united parishes of S. Mary Woolnoth and S. Mary Woolchurch..1658 to 1760 (London, 1886), p. 47
