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With a son Josias who was buried as an infant at St Laurence Pountney, 1717 Nov 2, Abraham and Anne had a surviving child:
Mary - born 1716 Feb 27, died 1791 Aug 7, buried on the 15th at St Laurence - kept a diary, in the possession of Sir Charles William CHITTY at Torquay in 1930, the source of many dates of birth not authenticated from public records, and also probably of various otherwise unknown members or the family included in pedigrees as 'died young'. This Diary, and possibly letters, must have been known in part to both CC and M-C.
M-C says that in 1741, Dec 4, there was a proposal to marry her to J. JESS of South Moulton, Devon, who proposed again the next year, A Mr Peregryn GRIFFIN of Loyds made an approach on behalf of Mary's cousin Samuel NORMAN, 1744/5 Jan 14.
CC says that Mary herself hoped to marry a barrister named William ABNEY, but that he married someone else.
Her lengthy Will names some two dozen relations, many presumably on the PHILLIPS side. She also left £500 to ABNEY; Mr NORMAN received no more than a mourning ring. There were also legacies to the Dissenting Ministers Fund, the Dissenting Ministers' Widows Fund, the S.P.G. and the individual dissenting ministers of Stepney, Stratford and Clapham.
The Will was dated at Bishopsgate in 1762, but at her death nearly 30 years later she was of St Thomas, Hackney. Doubts about the personal representatives of deceased beneficiaries led to a Chancery suit, CHITTY v PARKER to determine them.
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