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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)
Joshua
WILKINS 1780
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Joshua Wilkins shipwright belonging to His
Majesty's dock yard at Chatham 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
Saviour 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 die
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 unto
my dearly beloved wife Ann all such wages sum and sums of money
as now is or hereafter shall be due to me for my service or otherwise in
his majesty's said yard or in any other of His Majesty's yards ships or
vessels whatsoever and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my
dearly beloved wife Ann executrix of this my last will and
testament and I do give and bequeath unto my said executrix all the rest
and residue of my estate whatsoever both real and personal hereby
revoking and making void all other and former wills by me heretofore
made and do declare this to be my last will and testament in witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of
June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six
and in the sixteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
Defender of the Faith etc. Joshua Wilkins signed sealed
published and declared by the said Joshua Wilkins 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 Wm.
Campbell, clk. cheque Jas. Park
Proved 30th May 1780
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