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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
Thomas
KING 1795
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Thomas King of Chatham in the county
of Kent (shipwright) being in perfect health of body and of perfect and
sound disposing mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling to mind
the mortality of my body and in knowing that it is appointed for all men
once to die do make and ordain publish and declare this to
be my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of
all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that
gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent
Christian burial at the discretion of my executors nothing doubting but
at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty
power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has
pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise bequeath and dispose
of the same in the following manner [my] just debts and funeral expences
being first paid imprimis I give
and bequeath to my sister Elizabeth Sommey ? one fourth part of
my estate money goods chattels wages debts dues and demands that I shall
or may [be] possessed of at the time of my decease item
I give and bequeath to my brother Levit King one fourth part of
my estate money goods chattels wages debts dues and demands that I shall
or may be possessed at the time of my decease item
I give and bequeath to my sister Ann King
one fourth part of my estate money goods chattels wages debts dues and
demands that I shall or may be possessed of at the time of my decease ITEM
I give and bequeath to my brother John King
one fourth part of my estate money goods chattels wages debts dues and
demands that I shall or may be possessed at the time of my decease and I
do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my two brothers Levit King
and John King the whole and sole executors of this my last
will and testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul
all and every other former testaments wills legacies bequests and
executors by me in any wise before named [ ] and bequeathed ratifying
and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in
witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second
day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
seventy three Thos. King signed sealed published
pronounced and declared by the within named testator Thomas King
to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his
presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our
names John Turner Jno. Frankes
Proved 15th January 1795 Levit King
has since died, John King granted administration
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