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  2. George Washington Parke Custis - Wikipedia

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    However, Martha's executor, Bushrod Washington, refused to sell to Custis the Mount Vernon estate on which Custis had been living and which Bushrod Washington (George Washington's nephew) had inherited. Custis thereupon moved into a four-room, 80-year-old house on land inherited from his father, who had called it "Mount Washington".

  3. Will of Henry VIII - Wikipedia

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    The will appointed 16 executors. The executors had little impact in the short term because its powers were given to a smaller group. The executors were officially (with one other) the council of King Edward VI until 12 March 1547, when Protector Somerset nominated the council. [4] The effective end of the Somerset Protectorate came in early ...

  4. Executioner - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia Photograph (hand-coloured), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of Rewah, Central India, with large executioner's sword (Tegha sword) Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 Stylised depiction of public ...

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  6. Noah Webster - Wikipedia

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    Emily Schotten (1790–1861), who married William W. Ellsworth and was named by Webster as an executor of his will. [28] Emily, their daughter, later married Rev. Abner Jackson, who became president of both Trinity College in Hartford and Hobart College in Geneva, New York. [29] Frances Julianna (1793–1869), married Chauncey Allen Goodrich

  7. Richard III of England - Wikipedia

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    Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York.

  8. Henry Bradford Endicott - Wikipedia

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    The two executors of his will each posted $18 million bonds, the largest ever in Norfolk County. [30] The "shoe king's" estate was worth $11,674,976 in personal property and $92,500 in real estate, including $3.9 million in 'liberty bonds and $6.2 million in Endicott Johnson stock, large amounts of other stock and bonds, and $873,990 in cash.

  9. Westoning - Wikipedia

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    John Everitt purchased the manor in 1767, whose son of the same name was knighted, another of the same name held it until he died in 1836, after which his executors sold the property to Reverend J. W. C. Campion in whose family it remained until Major Coventry Campion [n 4] died in 1903 to be purchased from his widow, later Mrs Blyth-King, by ...