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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
Thomas
LANDEN 1788
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Thomas Landen of Chatham in the
county of Kent shipwright
being not in good health of body but of sound and disposing mind memory
and understanding praised be God do make and ordain this my last will
and testament in manner and form following that is to say first I desire
I may be decently and privately buried by and at the discretion of my
executor herein after named also I give and bequeath all and every my
messuages lands tenements hereditaments and real estate whatsoever and
wheresoever with their and every of their appurtenances and also all and
every my plate linen woollen china pewter brass beds bedding household
stuff and implements of household ready money and securities for money
money in the publick stocks or funds debts goods chattels and estate
whatsoever both real and personal (my just debts and funeral expences
being thereout first paid and satisfied) unto and to the use of my son Thomas
Landen of Chatham aforesaid baker his heirs executors administrators
and assigns for ever and I do hereby make and appoint my said son Thomas
full and sole executor of this my last will and testament and I do
hereby revoke and make void all former wills by me made in witness
whereof I the said Thomas Landen have to this my last will
and testament set my hand and seal dated the 26th day of November in the
twenty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and
so forth and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty eight Thos. Landen signed sealed published and
declared by the said Thomas Landen the testator as and for
his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence at
his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
our names as witnesses hereto William Kennett James Rickkon ? Abraham
Rickhan ?
Proved 15th December 1788
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