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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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