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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
George
HALL 1709
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
That I George Hall of Chatham in the
county of Kent shippwright have and by these presents doe make ordaine
and constitute my loveing mother Mary Carr the wife of Daniel
Carr of Chatham aforesaid corker my . . . . . . and lawfull
attorney irrevokeable for me and in my name and for my use to aske
demand and receive of and from the right honourable the treasurer or
paymaster of his majesties navy and commissioners for prize money and
whom else it may concerne as well all such wages and pay bounty money
prizemoney and all such other sumes of money whatsoever as now is and
which hereafter shall or maybe due or payable unto me pursuant to His
Majesties gracious declaration of the 23rd of May 1689 and also such
pensions salleryes smart money and all other moneys and things
whatsoever which now and at any time hereafter is and shall be due to me
for my sallery pay wages and service or otherwise in any of His
Majesties shipps fryggetts or vessells or any merchant shipp or shipps
as also to demand and recover and receive of all other person or persons
whatsoever whom it doth or may concerne all and singular such other sume
and sumes of money goods wages effects wages debts dues claimes and
demands whatsoeverwhich now and hereafter is or shall be due and payable
unto me either by bond bill book account or otherwise howsoever and
moreover in my name and for my proper use to and lett by lease in
writing or otherwise all or any of my messuages lands or tenements to
such person or persons and for such tenure of yeares conditions and
reservations as my said attorney or her councell shall think fitt and
convenient giving and hereby granting unto my said attorney my full and
whole power in the premisses and to recover and receive all and singular
the sume and sumes of moneymatters and things aforesaid and upon none
payment thereof or any part thereof all such person and persons whom it
may concern and where need shal require their executors administrators
to sue arrest attach seize imprison prosecute and condemne and to
compound and agree and out of prison to release and discharge and upon
receipt of the said premisses or any part thereof of acquittances
releases or any other discharges for me and in my name to make seale and
deliver and one attorney or more to substitute and at pleasure to revoke
and generally to act and doe all other acts matters and things
whatsoever needfull and necessary to be done in and touching the
premisses as fully and effectually as I ought or could doe if I were
personally present ratifying and allowing for firme and valid and irre
vocable all and whatsover my said attorney shall lawfully doe or cause
to be done in or touching the premisses by virtue of theses presents and
I the said George Hall considering the incertainy of this
transistory life doe make and declare these presents to containe my last
will and testament that is to say first and principally I commend and
comit my soul (not subject to mortality) into the hands of my most
blessed Savoiour and Redeemer Jesus Christ hopeing to have forgiveness
of all my sins and all such wages sume and sumes of money lands
tenements goods chattells and estate whatsoever wherewith at the time of
my decease I shall be possessed or invested or which shall then belong
or of right appertaine unto me I doe give devise and bequeath unto my
loveing mother Mary Carr and I doe herby nominate and
appoint my said loveing mother Mary Carr my full and sole
executrixof this my last will and testament and doe revoke all former
wills and deeds of gift by me at any time heretofore made and doe
ordaine these presents to stand and be for and as my only last will and
testament in witnesse thereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the
fourth day of December anno dni 1697 and in the ninth yeare of the
reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King William the Third over England
etc. the marke of the above mentioned George Hall signed
sealed published and declared in the presence of Thos. Simkid?
William Edmeads John Rutton, clerke to Thomas
Rutton, attorney at law in Gravesend in Kent
Proved 26th February 1709 (Mary Carr is
now a widow)
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