• Born: Abt 1741, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England
• Christened: 3 Jan 1742, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England ¹
• Buried: 5 Aug 1805, Wootton Bassett St. Bartholomew All Saints, Wiltshire, England ²

  Research Notes:

In 1743 Thomas Short was a beneficiary of his father's Will. Later in the same year, Thomas's great-uncle, William Short of Wootton Bassett, gent. bequeathed to Thomas Short, third son of his nephew William Short, and to Thomas's heirs, one acre of arable land in Coxtalls in Wootton Bassett.

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Abstract of the Will of Thomas Short of Wootton Bassett in the County of Wilts, Gentleman, written 28 May 1805, proved 23 Nov 1805. ³

Gives & bequeaths £10 to Thomas Short late of Wootton Bassett but now a soldier in Ireland.

Gives & bequeaths £10 to Joseph Short son of his brother William Short.

Gives & bequeaths to Ann Cuss* of Wotton Bassett his silver tankard, silver sugar basin, all his silver tablespoons, teaspoons, silver half pint, a pair of silver salt cellars, silver pepper box, his best heather bed bolster and pillows, a pair of sheets, a pair of his best blankets, the best quilt together with the bed curtains and bedstead.

The rest of his personal estate he gives & bequeaths between the said Ann Cuss and Letitia Pannell†, share and share alike.

Gives & devises his freehold tenement with garden and premises in Wood Street Lane in Wootton Bassett to Henry Short the younger, son of Henry Short of the city of Bath, soap boiler.

Gives & devises his two tenements with gardens and outbuildings in Buthay in Wootton Bassett to the said Letitia Pannell. And after her death he gives the same to the said Henry Short the elder of the city of Bath.

Gives & devises to the said Ann Cuss his two freehold tenements with garden and hereditaments in Wootton Bassett currently occupied by Timothy Short and John Hill.

Appoints Ann Cuss and her father William Cuss of Cricklade, and Mr. Edward Fairthorne of West Mill in the county of Berks, co-executors of his last will and testament.

(signed)

Witnesses: George Woolley of Wootton Bassett, John Yorke of the same place, and Richard Welford, attorney-at-law, Marlborough Wilts.

* Ann Cuss was the daughter of William Cuss who married Thomas's sister Ann Short.
† Letitia Pannell of Wootton Bassett, spinster, wrote her will in May of the same year, in which she names both Ann Cuss and Thomas Short