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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
Richard
GRIMYEAR 1742
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Richard Grimyear of Chatham in
the county of Kent shipwright and marriner 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 publish 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 true and trusty friend Mary Comferry
of Chatham in the county of Kent widow as I now belong to his majesty's
ship Grafton I do hereby give and bequeath to the aforesaid Mary
Comferry all my wages sime and sumes of money 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 the aforesaid Mary Comferry
of Chatham in the county of Kent widow to act for and in my behalf after
or before my decease and I do hereby nominate and apppoint the aforesaid
Mary Comferry my sole executrix of this my last will and
testament hereby revoking all former and other wills testaments and
deeds 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 last will and
testament in witness whereof to this my will I have set my hand and seal
the twenty ninth day of June anno dni. 1740 and in the forteenth year of
the reign of His Majesty King George the Second King over Great Britain
etc. France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Rich. Grimyear
signed sealed published and declared in the presence of us witnesses Tho.
Bunyan l. Baker
Proved 21st June 1742
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