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

Ralph HOPPER 1762

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Ralph Hopper of Chatham in the county of Kent shipwright being of sound and disposing mind and memory do hereby make this my last will and testament first and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping for remission of all my sins through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Savoiour and Redeemer and my body to the earth or sea as it shall please God and as for such worldly estate and effects which I shall be possessed of or intitled unto at the time of my decease I give and bequeath the same as followeth that is to say I give and bequeath all my ready money with securities for money plate jewells linen woollen and all such wages sum and sums of money as now or is hereafter shall be due to me for my service or otherwise on board of any of His Majesty's ships or vessells or any other service unto my mother Clarintha Hopper widow my brothers Robert and John Hopper shipwrights my sisters Elizabeth Hopper spinster and Mary Dadd wife of [ ] Dadd and my loving friend Elizth. Chalton spinster to share and share alike and in case any of my before mentioned friends depart this life then the above particulars to be deposited among the survivors of them and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said loving brothers Robert and John Hopper or either of them executors of this my last will and testament and I do give and bequeath unto my said executors all the rest and residue of my estate whatsoever both real and personal for the use before mentioned hereby revoking and making void all other and former wills by me heretofore made and I do declare this to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine and in the thirty Second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith etc. Ralph Hopper signed sealed published and declared by the said Ralph Hopper as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the said testator Mary Daniel Catherine Cornish Jno. Sommerton

Proved 11th October 1762 power reserved to Robert Hopper

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