Ann Bean Walter

Awardee as executor of her husband John Jacob Walter.

In his will, dated 22/05/1821, Jacob Walter directed that estates and enslaved persons were to be sold and the net produce divided in equal shares between his children, of whom Christiana Eliz Steigenberger (the wife of John Steigenberger, both q.v.) was one, and appointed seven executors. Codicil to the will delaying sale until after the death of Ann Bean (otherwise Walter) adding executors and taking four away.

T71/1609: unnumbered bundle contains a letter, dated 30/07/1835, from Battye Fisher and Ludlow, setting out the background to the will of Jacob Walter.