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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
John
BOND 1719
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I John Bond of Chatham in the county of
Kent shipwright being aged and infirm of body but of sound mind memory
and understanding do for the quieting of my mind and for the settling
and disposeing of that estate it hath pleased Almighty God of his mercy
to bestow on me make and declare this my last will and testament in
manner and forme following that is to say in the first place I commend
my soul to Almighty God the creator thereof in and through the merritts
mediation and intercession of my Lord and savioiur Jesus Christ and my
body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my
one executrix hereafter named item
I give devise and bequeath all that my messuage tenement or dwelling
house with the yard backside garden and appurtenances thereto belonging
situate lying and being in a certain street called Kingstreet in the
parish of Deptford in the said conty of Kent late in the occupation of Elizabeth
Fox widow since deced but now in the occupation of one Wilkins
who useth the same as a public house and all my estate right title and
interest of in and to the same and all other my messuages lands
tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in the parish of
Deptford as aforesaid or east Greenwich in the said county of Kent unto
my dear and loving wife Sarah Bond and to her heires and
assignes for ever item I
give and bequeath unto my said loving wife Sarah Bond and to her
heires executors administrators and assignes for ever all and every my
ready money debts creditts arrears of rent of superannuation plate rings
linnen woollen bedding pewter brass household goods utensils of
household and other goods and chattells whatsoever and wheresoever
whereof or wherein I shall be anyway possessed of interested in or
intitled unto at the time of my decease and of this my said last will
and testement I do make constitute nominate ordain and appoint my said
loving wife Sarah Bond sole executor or executrix hereby revoking
and making void all and all manner of former and other wills and
testaments by me at any time heretofore made spoken or published before
the publishing of these presents in witness whereof I the said John
Bond have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal
this present seventeeneth day of August 1706 and in the fifth year of
the reigne of our Sovereigne Lady Queen Anne I John Bond
signed sealed and delivered published and declared by the said John
Bond as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us
who in his presence and at his request have set our hands as witnesses
hereto John Heneker Henry Paul Rich. Shafter
Proved 20th December 1717
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