Archideaconal will 1717 #31 German, of Gilbert MacLeece [Leece]:

[From LDS film 0106211]

German: This is afirmed to be ye last will and testament of GILBERT MACLEECE of KK German who departed this life ye 19th of March 1716/7 who being at perfect mind & memory at ye making thereof.
First he committed his soul to almighty God & his body to Christian burial.
Itt, he declared yt that there was due to him from JON. SHIMMIN one shilling, from Tho: Gawne 1s:4d, dude to him from Mrs. Stevenson 5s:6.
Itt, he appointed his FOUR CHILDREN viz JANE, MARGRET, ELINOR & JOHN MACLEECE whole ex:tors of all his goods moveable & unmoveable. And if ye CHILDREN dyed under age or without will yt ye goods were to come to his BROTHER THOMAS MACLEECE, & six pence legacie to any ye claimes right to his goods.

Witnesses: Gilbert Craine my mrk, Dorathy MycLeece my mrk, jurati. THE EXRS BEING UNDER AGE ye MOTHER & UNCLE are sworn in Court in form of Law.

Probatum est & Solvit 7d.

THE INVENTORY BROUGHT IN BY the Sumner amounts to 2 pounds : 5 shillings : 0 pence.

To be deducted for debts 00:08:-00.
More added 00:02:00.
The Goods & two of ye CHILDREN in ye hands of ye UNCLE who has given pledges Philip Crain & Gilbert Crain.

DECEMBER 3D 1724: THIS DAY JANE MCLEECE one of ye Exrs of ye within GILBT MCLEECE being at lawfull years came to the records & acknowledged herself to be paid & satisfied at and from ye hands of her UNCLE THO: MCLEECE as well for herself as for her BROTHER & TWO SISTERS in what was due to her & them by ye death of their father & does hereby acquit & discharge her sd UNCLE Excrs &c., forever of the same. Witness her mark to her name ye year & day above written. JANE MCLEECE her mark J. Before me Wm Gell Register. Pledges for Jane are [no names recorded].

Gilbt. MC LEECE md 21 Jul 1705 German, to Jony QUAYLE