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Notable will of Samuel Wright lists vast charitable bequests
The document details Samuel Wright of Newington Green's will dated 1735. It allocates funds to hospitals, churches, poor families, prisoners, and nonconformist ministers, with large gifts to Christ Church Hospital, the Society for Reforming Manners, and various parishes. Executors are named, and provisions cover funerary wishes and subsequent codicils. It notes distributions and a religious motive, plus an outline of assets in Lubenham and Surinam.
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Samuel Wright
Newington-Green
Society For Reformation of Manners
Society For
Christ Church Hospital
John Dunn
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Beth
Ludgate
Fleet
Marthalsea
Southwark
Whitechapel
Great Paxton
Lubenham
Islington
Bow
Old Ford
St. Alphage
London
Ber
John Barnes
Williamliffe
Job Bull
Samuel Sprigg
William Thompson
Henry Hitchcock
Thomas Palmer
William King
John Luck
John Andrewes
Richard Norton
William Wade
Joseph Tilley
Richard Paine
John Tomkins
John Bate
Harborough
Doh Danns
Huntington
John Petty
Poppe
Thomas Moore
John Moreton
Emery
Thomas Gutteridge
James Benson
St. Neots
Richard Sheldon
James Hugget
Surinam
County of
Leicester
Northamptonshire
Lubnam
John Wright
Croke
Arthur Wright
Thomas Gregg
Lombard-Street
Middlesex
Joseph Paice
Joseph Speed
Susannah Clark
Althou
James Fisher
John Duan
Thomas Gardner
Jane Glegg
Mary Woodcock
Edward Woodcock
Thomas
Edward Glegg
Roger Jenyns
Susan Clark
Elizabeth Horner
Thomas Clark
Newington- Green