Light's will (1794)
I, Francis Light of the Parish of Dallingoo in the County of Suffolk, Great Britain and now residing on Prince of Wales' Island in the East Indies do hereby make this my last Will and Testament and do by these presents revoke all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made. Imprimis I give and bequeath the paddy field situated in Nibong plain and containing 100 orlongs of land or thereabouts together with the houses plantation's implements of husbandry and 40 buffaloes unto Martina Rozells who has cohabited with me since the year 1772 to be by her possessed during her natural life and at her death to be divided equally among her children, if no person born of her body remains at her death it shall be disposed of according to her will. Francis Light and Martina Rozells. We were told by Trapaud (1788) and Tuckey (1815) that Light married a Kedah princess, making him, in effect, ...