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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
Richard
BUCK 1784
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Richard Buck of Chatham in the
county of Kent shipwright being of sound and perfect mind memory and
understanding do revoke all former wills by me at any time heretofore
made or published and do hereby make publishe and declare this my last
will and testament in manner following (that is to say) I give and
bequeath to my brother Benjamin Buck one pound one
shilling of lawful money of Great Britain item
to my sister Priscilla Wilson widow
one pound one shilling of lawful money of Great Britain and I give and
devise all my share proportion and interest in all of those several
messuages or tenements with the several yards backsides gardens or
grounds alley ways liberties priviledges hereiditaments and
appurtenances to them severally belonging situate lying and being in or
near Smithfield Bank in the parish of Chatham aforesaid and now in the
possession of myself and my brother Benjamin Buck and in
the several occupations of Henry Carpenter Stephen Watts
Robert Wilson John Jones and Daniel Dunn
their assigns and under tenants and all other my real estate whatsoever
which I shall died seized of unto the use of my beloved wife Ann Buck
and to her respective heirs and assigns for ever item
all and every of my ready money securities for
money debts credits and chattells and personal estate whatsoever which I
shall die possessed of or entitled unto (after payment of my just debts
and funeral charges) I give and bequeath unto my said beloved wife Ann
Buck her executors and administrators and I do hereby constitute
and appoint my said wife Ann Buck sole executrix of this
my will and declare this to be my last will and testament in witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty forth day of
July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four Richd.
Buck signed sealed published and declared by the said Richard
Buck the testator as and for his last will and testament in the
presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other
have subscribed our names as witnesses hereunto Phoebe Hopkins
Naomi Davis John Jack
Proved 17th December 1784
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