Need some help with transcription of 19th century Chancery Handwriting in old will

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I need a little help reading the heirs in an 1814 will from Lincolnshire.  This is the best I can do, but some of this may be incorrect: 

He left his estate, or named executors, friends Edward Sommers of Boston and John Barton of Boston.Small bequests to nephew Nighingale Rufus Lightfoot, niece Maria Lightfoot, nephew Richard Lightfoot,  the daughter of Stephen Hants, late of Boston, Elizabeth Hants (illeg) ; Susanna Taylor the daughter of John Taylor, deceased, brother of his late wife; and Sarah, wife of ____ Carter, another daughter of John Taylor; Smithson Taylor of Boston, son of John Taylor; Mary Taylor (wife of John Taylor) ; William Knowles of Charles Street in Westminster ; sisters, child and children of Mary Norintht (Winslet?) (illeg), widow, and Biddy Galliday (illeg) , wife of Rivason (illeg) Galladay, Mary Wright ; Mary Grover (illeg) ; Elizabeth Saul (the person in my service). 

Will is located here:

England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 for Nightingale Kyme

PROB 11: Will Registers

1811-1814

Piece 1563: Bridport, Quire Numbers 643-687 (1814)

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/155896:5111

Thank you for any help!

WikiTree profile: Nightingale Kyme
in Genealogy Help by Linda Chickering G2G6 Mach 1 (10.4k points)

1 Answer

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Here's my take:

Edward Hunnings
Nightingale Kyme Lightfoot (not Rufus), there's another niece Frances Lightfoot
Elizabeth Franks daughter of Stephen Franks
Mary Norintht (Winslet?)  I think is Mary Wright again - it's a badly formed g
Biddy Halliday wife of Richeson Halliday
That last Mary, is that the one on the last page on the line below George Pocklington who he bought land from , if so it's Mary Green, and again, someone he bought land from.
The rest I think are OK :)
by Gill Whitehouse G2G6 Pilot (112k points)
edited by Gill Whitehouse

Also Mary Taylor (wife of John Taylor), it's widow, as is Sarah the widow of Smithson Taylor (that must be a second Smithson Taylor as the son of John is still alive) - these little details are important for getting clues about when someone died.

Appreciate the second set of eyes!

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