| Description | DSCAM/3/244/1: Printed copy of the will of John Williams Jesson (generally known as John Jesson) of Dudley, Worcs., gentleman.
£10000 to trustees to support and establish a school in Dudley for the education of boys between the ages of 7 and 14, being children of the poor of the parishes of Dudley and Sedgley etc.; details of instruction; kinsman, Elijah Willetts, to be first master; religious instruction to be that of the Established Church, etc. [School was known as Jesson's School / Jesson's Charity School]
2 messuages in Victoria Terrace, Dudley, messuage in King Street, 2 dwellinghouses in Oakey Well Street and vault in St Edmund's church, to Elijah Willetts; 4 messuages at Holly Hall to latter's brother, William Willetts; household effects to housekeeper, Ann Davis, and Charlotte Willetts, wife of John Willetts of Birmingham, steel toy maker; £3000 in equal shares after 7 years to relations, Samuel Amphlett, Williams John Williams and Jeremiah Williams (sons of the late Jesse Williams of Pershore); residue of estate after 3 years to be paid £1000 to John Willetts, £1000 to Charlotte, £200 to his brother William Willetts; £400 for the widow of Daniel Glover for life, thence to her children, Maria, Ann, Elizabeth and Charlotte; £200 each to John and Henry Glover, sons of Daniel Glover; £200 to former servant, Alice Crowder; £100 to relation, George Willetts of Birmingham, £50 to his brother Benjamin Willetts; £400 to relation, Paul Williams of Worcester, and £400 each to his nieces, Ann, Amelia and Barbara, daughters of the late Benjamin Pratt of Pershore; £50 to relation, Benjamin Stokes of West Bromwich; numerous £20 legacies, etc.
Executors: John Willetts, Daniel Davis of Dudley, gentleman and William Robinson of the same, gentleman.
Will proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 12 Apr. 1855. |