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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
Ralph
HOPPER 1762
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Ralph Hopper of Chatham in the county
of Kent shipwright being of sound and disposing mind and memory do
hereby make this my last will and testament first and principally I
commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping for remission of
all my sins through the merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Savoiour and
Redeemer and my body to the earth or sea as it shall please God and as
for such worldly estate and effects which I shall be possessed of or
intitled unto at the time of my decease I give and bequeath the same as
followeth that is to say I give and bequeath all my ready money with
securities for money plate jewells linen woollen and all such wages sum
and sums of money as now or is hereafter shall be due to me for my
service or otherwise on board of any of His Majesty's ships or vessells
or any other service unto my mother Clarintha Hopper widow
my brothers Robert and John Hopper shipwrights my
sisters Elizabeth Hopper spinster and Mary Dadd
wife of [ ] Dadd and my loving friend Elizth. Chalton
spinster to share and share alike and in case any of my before mentioned
friends depart this life then the above particulars to be deposited
among the survivors of them and I do hereby nominate constitute and
appoint my said loving brothers Robert and John Hopper
or either of them executors of this my last will and testament and I do
give and bequeath unto my said executors all the rest and residue of my
estate whatsoever both real and personal for the use before mentioned
hereby revoking and making void all other and former wills by me
heretofore made and I do declare this to be my last will and testament
in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth
day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
fifty nine and in the thirty Second year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Second by the grace of God of Great Britain
France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith etc. Ralph Hopper
signed sealed published and declared by the said Ralph Hopper
as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who have
hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the said
testator Mary Daniel Catherine Cornish Jno.
Sommerton
Proved 11th October 1762 power reserved to Robert Hopper
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