Aspects of Kentish Local History

Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)

Henry HULBURT or HULBURD 1710

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
That I Henry Hulburt of Chatham in the county of Kent shipwt. imediate carpenter of His Majestie's ship "Essex" have and by these presents doe make ordain and constitute my loving wife Rebecca Hulburt of Chatham aforesaid my true and lawfull attorney irrevokeable for me and in my name and for my use to aske demand receive of and from the Right Honoble the treasurer or paymaster of Their Majesties' navy and commissioners for prize money and whom else it may concerne as well all such wages and pay bounty money prize money and all other sume and sumes of money whatsoever as now is and which hereafter shall or may be due or payable unto me pursuant to His Majestie's most greacious declaration of the twenty third 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 sallary 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 and 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 whatsoever which now and hereafter is or shall be due and payable unto me either by bond bill book accompt or otherwise howsoever and moreover in my name and for my proper use to demise and lett by lease in writing or otherwise all and any my messuages lands or tenements to such person or persons and for such tenure of years 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 singularthe sume and sumes of money matters and things aforesaid and upon none payment thereof or any part thereof all such person and persons whom it may concern and where need shall require their executors administrators and goods 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 irrevocable all and whatsoever my sais attorney shall lawfully doe or cause to be done or touching the premisses by virtue of these presents and I the said Henry Hulburt considering the incertainty of this transistory life doe make and declare these presents to containe my last Will and Testament (that is to say) all and singular 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 said wife Rebecca Hulburt and her heirs administrators and assigns forever and doe hereby nominate and appoint my said wife Rebecca to be sole executrix or this my last will and testament and doe revoke all former wills and deeds of gift by me at any time heretofore made and doee ordain these presents to stand and be for and as my only last will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the sixteenth day of September anno domini one thousand six hundred ninety six and in the eigth yeare of the reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Third King of England etc. Hen. Huburd signed sealed published and declared in the presence of Robt. Lee Ben. Rosewell Jams. Taylor Tho. Kirby

Proved 15th May 1710