Hi
His Will was quite revealing in regards to kin
“I John Hood of Newington Green do give and bequeath to my dearly beloved consort Elizabeth daughter of the late John Holton of Colebrook Co. Salop a third of what I may be possessed of at the time of my decease along with all furniture.”
Nothing else written apart from to say it was written by him.
The Will was examined by two bankers from Lombard Street (John Smith and Wm Remington) who declared the Will to have been written by the deceased John Hood.
The estate was administered by William Hood the natural born brother and one of the next of kin after being sworn duly after no executor or residual legatee being named in the Will and Elizabeth Hood widow of the deceased after having first ? the letters of Administration with Will annexed.
Claire 
Hello
Investigating those Smith, Bankers of Lombard Street.
Claire some of the Smith Bankers of Lombard Street, were QUAKERS ...
QUAKER, Joseph Smith (1742 to 1813, per Edw H. Milligan, 2007, 606 pages), accepted bills of YORKSHIRE manufacturers and was at one time an Underwriter at Lloyds, becoming a wealthy respected banker in Broad Street.
Mr Milligan also mentions the above Joseph Smith, was not to be confused with Thomas Smith (1725 to 1792) of Smith, Wright & Gray, Bankers, Lombard Street.
QUAKER, Thomas Smith (1725 to 1792), Silversmith and Banker, was born at Southwark, London 13 vii 1725 [September 1725 per Milligan, so must be the old Quaker Month dating system in use] and a Clerk for Henton Brown & Co., Lombard Street, later commencing as a Silversmith, Lombard Street. Thomas Smith teamed up with John Wright and Henry Gray, as partners to form bankers Smith, Wright & Gray, Lombard Street. Married in 1758 to Elizabeth Underwood.
Looks like John Smith, Banker, Lombard Street, one of the men who confirmed the Will to be that of John Hood and this John Hood might be linked to Quakers!
The County of Salop, is apparently now in, or is Shropshire.
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However, by 1816 William Hood of Crosby Square in the City of London and Sarah Grove of Taunton Somerset, Widow, Merchants and Bankers (carrying on trade in Crosby Square under the firm of John Hood and Company) were subject to a Commission of Bankruptcy and the Last Examination of the Effects and Estate of Wm Hood one of the said Bankrupts was to take place on 10th August.
The 1816 Notice also gives notice for Creditors who have not already proved their debts to come forward to prove them and giving notice for anyone to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his Certificate [of Conformity].
It seems they were Bankrupt on the one hand, but being cleared in the same Notice, provided nobody dissented from the allowance of his Certificate.
TNA, Kew, B 3/5510 William Hood and Sarah Grove of Crosby Square, London ...
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C481644Mark
