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

Joshua WILKINS 1780

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Joshua Wilkins shipwright belonging to His Majesty's dock yard at Chatham 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 Saviour 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 die 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 unto my dearly beloved wife Ann all such wages sum and sums of money as now is or hereafter shall be due to me for my service or otherwise in his majesty's said yard or in any other of His Majesty's yards ships or vessels whatsoever and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my dearly beloved wife Ann executrix of this my last will and testament and I do give and bequeath unto my said executrix all the rest and residue of my estate whatsoever both real and personal hereby revoking and making void all other and former wills by me heretofore made and do declare this to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and in the sixteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith etc. Joshua Wilkins signed sealed published and declared by the said Joshua Wilkins 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 Wm. Campbell, clk. cheque Jas. Park

Proved 30th May 1780

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