Karen, please forgive the detail in returning the post. I haven't looked at this particular branch of the family in quite a while. It was interesting re-reading the will.
I actually was somewhat mistaken in my original post about his daughter Jane.
Thomas Ford was b. ca Feb 1755, Huggate, E. Yorks. He married Ann Watson, b. Malton, E. Yks. (have a suspicion she might have been a widow) 11 Sep 1784, Kilnwick, E. Yorks.. Thomas died on the 6 or 7th of June, 1828, Bridlington, Yorks.
The couple seemed to have spent their married life in Bridlington, as far as I can tell. Thomas was a ship's carpenter and seems to have done alright for himself, as he owned some property.
All of the children are mentioned in the will, and a couple of grandchildren. My ancestor, William, was the executor along with his mother. By 1828 he had moved to Halifax, W. Yorks.
Thomas's daughter Jane is known to have married three times, or at least married twice, and in a relationship once, oddly, in London. This is proved by the birth of her daughter Charlotte Egan.
After her father died, Jane married William Trowsdale Mason, in 1833. He died within a few years and Jane was a widow for many years.
In the will she is referred to "Jane, wife of James Edgin (sic), without control, or intermeddling, of her present husband, and her receipt alone shall be sufficient discharge for the same" am not sure what this latter part means!
Strangely, when Jane married William T. Mason, she is listed as HALL, not Egan/Edgin. Hall was her first husband's surname (her brother William, my ancestor, also married a Hall, but a complete coincidence as she was from Northowram, W. Yorks.)
I have not found a marriage for Jane to James, nor anything else about him, other that Charlotte Egan was his daughter.
My guess reading over the will is that Jane got pregnant in London (no idea why she was there) and pretended she was married to James, if he even existed. It does seem though, that her parents might have known something, and hence the phrase "without control, or intermeddling"!
Sorry this isn't much help to you!