Hello Vonne.
Sorry for the delay in replying: I've been doing solid research at The Keep for the past 3 days!
Yes, I do have Nathaniel Beard's will. His named Executor is his "nephew Nathaniel Barber of West Smithfield, London". That nephew was the son of the testator NB's sister Elizabeth (m. Ed. Barber, 1697/8).
His "nephew Nicholas Beard ..." receives five hundred pounds in that will, but there is no mention of his abode. So I was thinking you might have some other document suggesting he too was living at Smithfield in 1740 .....
Maybe you can help me with the search for my own Holy Grail? For a very long time I have been trying to establish WHICH Nicholas Beard married Susan Barnham at Brighton St. Nicholas on 17 Jan 1715/6.
Was it the Nicholas Beard born at Brighton on 15 June 1685 (Quaker meeting record), son of William and Frances? .... or was it the Nicholas Beard bapt. 8 Aug 1686 (Brighton St. Nicholas), son of Richard and Mary? I have a lot of material about all of this, but none of it answers my big question definitively.
If you have any information proving he was definitely one or the other of those two individuals, I would be VERY glad to hear about it!!
Thanks, Mike