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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)

William GEORGE  1781

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I William George shipwright of the parish of Chatham in the county of Kent being in bodily health and sound and disposing mind and memory and considering the perils and dangers of the seas and other uncertainties of this transistory life (do for avoiding controversies after my decease) make publishe and declare this my last will and testament in manner following (that is to say) first I recommend my soul to God that gave it and my body I commit to the earth or sea as it shall please God to order and as for and concerning all my worldly estate I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that is to say to my dearly beloved wife Sarah George all my estate and effects whatsoever after paying the sum of fifty pounds unto my daughter Susannah Mary George daughter of William and Mary George wages sum and sums of money lands tenements goods chattels and estate whatsoever as shall be any ways due owing or belonging unto me at the time of my decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto [my wife Sarah George ?] and I do hereby nominate and appoint my wife abovesaid Sarah George whole and sole executrix of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former and other wills testaments and deeeds of gift by me at any time heretofore made and I do ordain and ratify these presents to stand and be for and as my only last will and testament in witness whereof to this my said will I have set my hand and seal the seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty and in the twentieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third over Great Britain etc. William George signed sealed published and declared in the presence of Samuel Teale John Engelbech

Proved 30th August 1781

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