Chelsfield - Parish Information
Abstract of will from
Chelsfield proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Geoffrey Copus.2005
Richard
Jackson of Chelsfield dated 4 July
1780
Abstract of the will of Richard Jackson of Chelsfield
farmer dated 4 July 1780.
My body to be buried at the expense of my wife Mary, whom I
appoint Executrix during her lifetime.
I leave my wife all my personal effects, implements and
utensils in farming, and also all my household goods and furniture.
" I will and desire that my two sons James and Thomas
would live with their mother and assist and help her in the management
of the farming [sic] I am now possessed of she allowing them proper
wages and such other advantages and emoluments as the times and
improvement of the farm shall admit of and after her demise then I will
and appoint my two sons James and Thomas sole and joint Executors of
this my last will and testament with a full power of recovering and
paying her debts and of taking for their own use both within and without
doors, with the proviso that they cause to be paid such legacies and at
such times as shall herein afterwards be mentioned."
To my eldest son Richard Jackson £40, to be paid
within one year after the death of his mother, but in case he die before
then this legacy is to remain to the Executors.
To my daughter Elizabeth wife of John Warry wheelwright, of
Green Hive [sic] in Kent, £40 on the same conditions.
To my son William Jackson £40 on the same conditions.
To my son Bartholomew nothing, as he has received his
portion during my lifetime.
To my grandson John Pocock £20 at age 21, on the same
conditions.
To my grandsons James and Benjamin Martin £10 each at age
21 or within one year of my wife’s death, on the same conditions,
except that if one die the survivor is to be his heir.
Witness John Hayler [only]
Richard X Jackson
"N.B. Upon reading the said Will to the Testator the following
Omissions were at his express desire and by his order inserted and
marked:
page the third: Item I give to my son in law William Barkin
one shilling to be paid to him one month after my interment.
If my sons Thomas and James shall not choose to live and
farm together, then "such of my effects as shall be remaining at
the death of my beloved wife Mary together with all my live stock
implements of hubandry household goods grain of all sorts growing on the
farm or in the barns ricks stacks or by whatever other names called be
fairly justly and equally shared and divided between them, each allowing
his share towards the discharge of the within-bequeathed legacies
according to the tenor of this will."
Proved 11 December 1780 by Mary Jackson widow the relict.
[PCC will PROB11/1072]
Transcribed by Geoffrey
Copus