1792
21st January 1792
My dear granddaughter Ann [Anne Gabiou nee Marsh] was born this day.
William – born 18 October 1795
Frances Mary born 14 August 1797
Mary born 9 December 1798
Georgiana Nelson (after Lady Nelson) born 7th January 1807
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9 July 1792
This day John Baynard Esq. of Rochester died with whom I had been a brother Clerk in the Comptroller of the Navy’s Office from 1744 to the time he quitted it.
He left his sister Mrs Elizebeth Baynard, spinster, who is about 80 years of age, executrix and myself executor.
He bequeathed to her for her life about £800 (£200 ?) per annum, and about £10,000 in bank stock, that is to say to that value, the stock being only £5,400, which she may dispose of by Will as she pleases.
He left me, my son and grandsons a freehold estate in land at Collin deep at the Hyde in the parish of Hendon Middlesex, of about 130 acres which cost him in the year 1756 about £4,000, now occupied by a Mr Edward Nicoll at £100 per annum, also a house, barn and a piece of ground at the Hyde which is copyhold, where Mr Nicoll lives, who has a lease (page 174) for 14 years of the whole, from Michaelmas 1700, and for which he also pay £10 more per annum, so that the gross rent is £190 per annum, about land tax of £20.0.4 there remains neat per annum £169.19.0 or £84.19.10 per half year, which I received of him to Michaelmas last.
He also left to William Duffin Esq two farms in Northamptonshire which cost him about £10,000, and to Elizabeth Holworthy both descendents of the Haddock family, his houses etc, and in the Vines Rochester.
He likewise left me a legacy of £1,000 and my son £500. And to his distant relations, public charities and friends about £20,000 more.