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Susanna Dexter's will is contradictory.
"What little furniture I may have to be disposed of and the produce with two pairs of sheets & some few of my Linen and wearing apparel to be sent to Whitby in Yorkshire for the use & Comfort of my nephew Charles Lambs Widow, she being left with eight children quite unprovided for -" However, further down it clearly says: "Signed this August 21st 1831". This HAS to be incorrect. Charles Lamb died on 3rd June 1832 at Abchurch-lane Hospital in London. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...amb%22&f=false For years we thought he had died by 1831 because of this will, until the article was found. Susanna's will starts off OK, initially written in a clear yet messy hand. Then she appears to have made additions in her own untidy handwriting. One of those is as follows: "July 15 86 I beg what Mr Partridge has in his hands may be appropriated to returning Miss Barnes & Mr Robt Hutchinson & Mr Ashton what I have had of them since I have been Mrs Beecheno signed this August 21st 1831 S Dexter" I'm not sure what the 86 (or 80) denotes. The layout is untidy. I can only suppose she got the year wrong and it was 1832 or later. The wrapper of the will has other hand-written additions, one in her hand dated August 15th 1836. Susanna Dexter was buried on 3rd February 1837 at St Ives, Huntingdonshire, and probate was granted on 11th February 1837. |
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