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Wills of Sheerness Shipwrights 1693 - 1855
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills (Pre 1858)
JOHN BRIDGES
1814
IN
THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I JOHN
BRIDGES Shipwright of his
Majesty's Dockyard Sheerness in the County of Kent being very weak in
Body but of sound and disposing mind memory
and understanding do
make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form
following
First and principally I commend my
Soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it hoping for remission of
all my Sins through the Merits and Mediation
of Jesus Christ my Redeemer and
my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion
of my Executors next
I give and bequeath unto my
beloved Wife SARAH BRIDGES
the Rents of all those my
three Houses or Tenements
built erected and set up by
me in Sheppey Street
at Blue Town in the
parish of Minster in the
County of Kent during the term of her natural life
with the use of all the Furniture Plate Linen and China
during her life and from and immediately after her death
then
I give bequeath and dispose of
them in the following manner that is to say the House in which I now
dwell I give and bequeath unto my Daughter ELIZABETH
TUCKER and her
children and the Ground on
which it stands being Twelve feet in front and Sixty feet back
with all Erections and Buildings
thereon
and to my Son JOHN BRIDGES
I give and bequeath the house adjoining on the South side
of the House I now dwell in which
is now in the occupation of EDWARD
( ?
) Caulker and the Ground on which it stands being Twelve feet in
front and Sixty feet back
with all Erections and Buildings
and to my Daughter SARAH BRIDGES
I give and bequeath the House adjoining the House I now live in on the
North side of the Ground on
which it stands being Fourteen feet in Front and Sixty feet back with
all Erections and Buildings thereon
my will is that their
( ?
) passage of two feet
six inches between this and
the middle House which shall
be free for both Houses
my further will is that after the
death of my aforesaid Wife then
all the Household Furniture Plate
China Linen and wearing apparel be
equally divided between my
Son JOHN BRIDGES my
Daughter ELIZABETH TUCKER and my Daughter SARAH BRIDGES
and my will further is that my
Executors shall collect all Sums of
Money due to me and all the Money I have by me at the time of my
death and shall finish the House bequeathed to my Daughter SARAH
and after paying my Funeral Expenses and my just Debts
shall pay what Money that may be left to my aforesaid Wife SARAH
BRIDGES and
I do hereby constitute and appoint
JOHN TAYLOR Shipwright and Mr SAMUEL BEBINTON
Butcher Executors of
this my last Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my mark and Seal the fourth day of December in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and thirteen the mark and Seal of l=
JOHN BRIDGES Signed Sealed and delivered
and declared to be
the last Will and Testament of the said JOHN BRIDGES in
the presence of us JOHN ROBERT ORMSTON
ROBERT WYATT
JOHN DAVIS
Proved 24th January 1814
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