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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
William
GEORGE 1781
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I William George shipwright of the parish
of Chatham in the county of Kent being in bodily health and sound and
disposing mind and memory and considering the perils and dangers of the
seas and other uncertainties of this transistory life (do for avoiding
controversies after my decease) make publishe and declare this my last
will and testament in manner following (that is to say) first I
recommend my soul to God that gave it and my body I commit to the earth
or sea as it shall please God to order and as for and concerning all my
worldly estate I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that is
to say to my dearly beloved wife Sarah George all my
estate and effects whatsoever after paying the sum of fifty pounds unto
my daughter Susannah Mary George daughter of William
and Mary George wages sum and sums of money lands
tenements goods chattels and estate whatsoever as shall be any ways due
owing or belonging unto me at the time of my decease I do give devise
and bequeath the same unto [my wife Sarah George ?] and I
do hereby nominate and appoint my wife abovesaid Sarah George
whole and sole executrix of this my last will and testament hereby
revoking all former and other wills testaments and deeeds of gift by me
at any time heretofore made and I do ordain and ratify these presents to
stand and be for and as my only last will and testament in witness
whereof to this my said will I have set my hand and seal the seventeenth
day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty and in the twentieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George
the Third over Great Britain etc. William George signed
sealed published and declared in the presence of Samuel Teale
John Engelbech
Proved 30th August 1781
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