| Description | Probate (10 Jan. 1778) of the will (dated 27 Apr. 1771) of Joseph Green of Dudley, Worcs., gentleman; £400 to sister-in-law Esther Finch, wife of Charles Finch of Cambridge; £300 to John Keelinge of Summerhill, Esq.; £100 to brother-in-law, Abraham Crane; £100 to kinsman Joseph Green, son of late uncle William Green; £50 to John Green, grandson of William; £150 to John Bridgwater of Dudley, spinning wheelmaker; £100 to sister-in-law Mary Green, wife of Jonathan; £100 to Jonathan; £200 to Elizabeth Green, daughter of Jonathan; £20 to William Hill of Chelsea, Middlesex, schoolmaster; £20 to John Robinson, his late packer; £150 to servant Ann Bate; £20 to servant Mary Dixon; to kinsmen Samuel, Joseph, John and Squire Knight £10 each;£10 to William Geast, mercer in Dudley; £10 to William udley, chandler in Dudley; £10 to Elizabeth Elwall of Dudley, spinster; £10 each to surviving children of late uncle Joseph Green; same to surviving children of late aunt Sarah Harrison; £5 to each daughter of his late teeser Joseph Allen; £5 and some clothes to Thomas Wilkinson of Dudley, cooper; 10/- each to 20 poor widows of the parish of Dudley, 20 poor widows of the parish of Kinfare and 20 poor widows of the parish of Kingswinford; £200 to the charity school in Dudley founded by John Hodgetts for poor girls; £20 to Gilbert Fownes the elder of Tipton, merchant; £150 a peice to Ann, Joseph, Sarah and Abraham Crane, the children of brother-in-law Abraham Crane, at the age of 21 etc.; all other estate upon trust for sale etc., applying all income to brother, Jonathan Green, for life, then half income to Mary, wife of Jonathan Green, for life, the balance accumulating, and then all capital and accumulation for the equal benefit of the children of Jonathan and Mary; executors, Geast, Bridgwater and Dudley. |
| Grant (24 Dec. 1785) of an annuity of £80, by Joseph Wainwright of Dudley, Worcs., surgeon and Edward Dixon of the same, hop merchant (devisees in trust of Jonathan Green of Dudley, glassmaker, deceased), with the consent of John Green and Joseph Green, both of Dudley, glass manufacturers, Mary Richards of Dudley, widow, Elizabeth Green of the same, spinster and William Green of Liverpool, Lancashire, druggist (the children of the late Jonathan Green), to Mary Green of Dudley, widow (of Jonathan), secured as a rentcharge upon three fourths of property in High Street, Birmingham near Welch Cross, and upon two leasehold messuages in Moor Street, Birmingham; recites deeds of even date conveying property at Solyhull, Warwickshire to Mary Richards and property in Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham (previously, alongside other property, charged with an £80 annuity) to Elizabeth Green. |