John SULTZER [20741]

  General Notes:

John was a professional surveyor, working in Leicestershire and surrounding counties - Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland and Suffolk. His title was a Commissioner, valuing for inclosure.

Here lie, in the hopes of a joyful resurrection,
The earthly remains of John Saltzer Gent
He resigned this transitory life
The 26th day of December 1782, aged 44 years.

Will of John Sultzer
5 June 1782
Proved 31 January 1783
This is the last Will and Testament of me John Sultzer of Burton Overy in the County of Leicester Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Christian all my household goods plate linen and other household furniture and desire she will dispose thereof at her decease amongst all my children and I also give her the sum of forty pounds to be paid her by my executors hereinafter named upon my decease or as soon after as the same can be raised out of my personal estate and whereas upon my marriage with her I entered into a bond to secure to her for life the interest of one thousand pounds which was placed with other money out to interest and owing to the perfidy of old Paris? and the villainy of the Walkers is all lost I therefore in lieu thereof give unto my said dear wife for and during the term of her natural life all that my freehold estate situated in Great Bowden in the said County of Leicester and from and after her decease I do hereby give the same unto my eldest son and his heirs for ever (Overwritten above: and I do also give unto my said son and his heirs forever all my freehold) all my freehold estate situate in Burton Overy aforesaid I give and bequeath unto my wife's sister Mary Woodward in case her fortune shall not be recovered all the dividends that I shall be entitled to from the effects of that rascal Henry Walter a bankrupt and in case the whole of such dividends should not make up five hundred pounds then I direct the same to be made up that sum out of my personal estate trusting in the goodness of her heart to return it equally amongst my younger children in case she shall die without children of her own item I give and bequeath unto the Reverent Mr Samuel Topp Rector of Burton Overy aforesaid William Lee son of the former Rector of Burton Overy aforesaid Thomas Lovell of Hazelbrook in the County of Northampton and William Hartshorn of Leicester gentleman all the rest and residue of my personal estate nevertheless upon the trusts and for the purposes hereinafter mentioned that is to say to convert my said personal estate into money when and as they shall see convenient and by and out of the money arising therefrom and from the profits thereof in the meantime in the first place to satisfy all my just debts and funeral expenses and then after deducting and retaining the wont to themselves all their reasonable charges and expenses touching the execution of the trusts here by them exposed to divide the residue of the said money to and amongst all the younger children that I now have and hereafter shall have by my said wife in equal shares and to pay apply and dispose of their respective shares thereof for their respective use and benefit at such times and in such manner as they my said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them executors administrators or assigns shall think proper or convenient and my mind and will is that if any of my younger children shall depart this life under the age of 21 years and unmarried the share or proportion shares or proportions of him her or them so dying or so much thereof as shall then remain unapplied for his her or their respective use or benefit shall by my said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them his executors administrators or assigns be applied for the use and benefit of the rest of my younger children share and share alike at such times and in such manner as aforesaid and that if any younger son of me by my said wife shall become my Heir at law before the provision hereby made for him shall have been laid out for his use the share or proportion of such youngest son or so much thereof as shall at such time remain unapplied on his account shall be applied for the use and benefit of the rest of my younger children sharing share alike at such times and in such manner as they my said trustees all the survivors or survivor of them his executors administrators or assigns shall see fit and further my mind and will is that in case my children shall all die before the age of 21 years and unmarried then I direct my said trustees to pay and apply and rents and profits of my estate to the use of my said wife and after her decease then I give and devise the same and all other my estates to my wife's sister Mary Woodward for life and then to her children if she shall have any and in default thereof equally amongst the children of my wife's sisters Ann Nicholls and Elizabeth Hartshorn and I do hereby further declare that none of my said trustees shall be answerable for the other of them but each of them only for his own act and receipt and that none of them shall be answerable or liable to make good any loss or losses that shall happen by placing out at interest for the use or benefit of all or any of my said children all or any part of the monies arising by means aforesaid unless the same shall happen through their same or one of their wilful default and neglect and Lastly I hereby appoint them my said trustees executors of this my last Will and Testament and also together with my said wife guardians for all my children during their respective minorities
In witness whereof and that I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me made I have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and seal the 5^th day of June in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty two
John Sultzer
Signed sealed published and declared by the above named testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who subscribed our names as witnesses hereto in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other
Susannah Leach, William Leech, John Mattock.
This Will was proved in London the 31^st day of January in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty two before the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Dr of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oaths of the Reverent Samuel Topp Clerk William Lee and William Hartshorn three of the executors named in the said Will to whom administration was granted of all and singular the goods chattels and profits of the deceased having been first sworn by commission duly to administer power reserved of making the like Grant to Thomas Lovell the other Executor named in the said Will when he shall apply for the same.

  Research Notes:

Details of the Sulzer family from the Burton Overy Village website see:
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/burtonovery/burton-overy-to-the-world.html

John married Christian WOODWARD [20911] [MRIN: 7441], daughter of William WOODWARD [20916] and Ann DOLBY [20917], on 19 Mar 1771 in Burton Overy LEI. (Christian WOODWARD [20911] was born on 27 May 1749 and died after Jun 1782.)