| Description | Bequests: Real estate in Stamford Bridge to George Smith, 'my relation', Kilham near Doncaster, West Riding, farmer, formerly of Scotterthorpe, Lincolnshire; £100 to representatives of Thomas Thornton, late of Scarborough, gentleman, deceased; £4 annuity to John Smith, brother of George Smith; 3 guineas each to James Hudson and Elizabeth Hudson, children of Rev Thomas Hudson of Hunmanby and 1 guinea to Mary Elizabeth Hudson, his granddaughter; 1 guinea to Frances Gaultry, wife of Richard Gaultry, Stamford Bridge; 1 guinea to Isabell Wilson, High Catton, spinster; 2 guineas to buy mourning to Ellen Archer, wife of William Archer, Low Catton; suit of mourning to Sophia Bell, daughter of Thomas Bell, Wilberfoss
Executors: Thomas Hudson of Hunmanby and Thomas Wilson, Goodmanham, farmer, 'I beg to see me decently interred in my own Pew in the Church at Low Catton and request them to put over me a decent Tomb Stone with the words - Here lies the body of George Smeaton of Stamford Bridge, Gentleman, the last of that Antient Family, disturb not his remains. Let it possess this bit of Ground till the Resurrection Trumpet Sound'
Witnesses: James Hudson, William Voase, John Terry
Probate registered at Beverley, Book CO, Page 281, Number 445
Receipt of James Hudson of Bridlington Key
Note: Isabel Wilson of High Catton died before George Smeaton
Monumental Inscription at Catton states that George Sneaton died on 16 Aug 1796 aged 82 years |