Commissary Court of Surrey
Testator: Richard Simmonds of Horsell, husbandman
Date of Will: 20 April 1779
To the poor of Knaphill five pounds worth of bread
To my friend Thomas Blackman of Knaphill my freehold house etc. in Horsell paying my cousin Nicholas Chase of Greetham, Hampshire a guinea and my cousin Samuel Chase shoemaker at Eaton thirty five pounds;
to my friend Arthur Harding of Bisley eighty pounds which I have on mortgage on his house and land but he is to pay my cousin Samuel twenty pounds;
my goods to be valued and sold;
to my cousin Margaret White of Eaton twenty pounds;
to my cousin Samuel Chase White five pounds;
to my cousin John Finch of Woking one hundred pounds;
to my cousin James son of Richard Hodd of Woking deceased one hundred pounds;
to Ann Hodd daughter of Richard deceased now Ann wife of Thomas Waterer five pounds;
to Ann daughter of Thomas and Ann Waterer five pounds;
to my cousin James Hodd of Horsell twenty pounds;
to Richard Hodd son of the said James sixty pounds;
to Sarah Maria Hodd daughter of the said Richard five pounds;
to Sarah Hodd daughter of James of Horsell five pounds;
to my cousin George Strudwick of Pirbright five pounds and to his sister Jane now wife of William Towers five pounds;
a guinea to each Executor;
the residue into equal parts, one each to my cousin Margaret White, my cousin Samuel Chase White, one to Ann Waterer wife of Thomas, one to Ann their daughter, one to James Hodd of Horsell, one to Richard Hodd son of James, one to Sarah Hodd daughter of James, one to John Finch, one to my cousin James Hodd of Woking;
my cousin John Finch and cousin James Hodd both of Woking Executors in trust
Witnesses: James Snelling; Mary Gyles; Philip Gyles
Proved: 19 May 1780 DW/PC/7/6 Q2; DW/PC/5/1780/4