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Wills of 19th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills (Pre 1858)
William
FULLER proved 1831
IN THE NAME OF GOD
AMEN
I William Fuller of Chatham (but
late a Shipwright in His Majesty's Dock Yard at Sheerness) in the County
of Kent being at present in good health and sound in mind and
understanding (thank God for the same) do make publish and declare this
my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say In
the first place I resign my Soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave
it and my body I commit to the Earth to be decently interred at the
discretion of my Executors hereinafter named and as for my Worldly
Estate and effects which I may die possessed of after payment of all my
just debts and funeral expenses and the charge and cost of proving this
my last Will and Testament by my Executors as soon after my decease as
convenient I
give and bequeath to my Son James Fuller (the lawful Son
of my Wife Ann Fuller) the sum of one shilling lawful
money of Great Britain I
also do give and bequeath to my Sister in Law Elizabeth Clark
Spinster the Sister of my aforesaid Wife residing with me and during the
term of her natural life All those two leasehold Messuages in Blue Town
Sheerness in the County of Kent one now occupied by Thomas Hughill
and the other occupied by Thomas Bolton and others But it
is my desire after her death the two foregoing leasehold messuages or
tenements should be for my Grandson James Samuel Matthews
now living with me and Son of James and Elizabeth Matthews
Victualler of Gravesend in the said County of Kent and I
do further give and bequeath to my said Sister in Law Elizabeth Clark
Spinster all my Household Goods furniture Linen China Clothes and
everything else belonging or which may be coming to me or anything that
may be known to be mine for her own personal use And
I do hereby appoint my Son in Law James Matthews
Victualler of Gravesend and my Sister in Law Elizabeth Clark
Spinster to be my two Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I
do hereby declare and direct that they [my] said Executors shall not be
answerable one for the other and by no means for involuntary losses and
charges by the execution of the said trust And
I do revoke and make void all former and other Wills by me at any time
heretofore made and do declare this only to be and contain my last Will
and Testament written and subscribed my name and affixed my seal this
sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty nine William Fuller Signed sealed
and declared by the said William Fuller the Testator as
and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his
request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have
subscribed our names as witnesses hereto James Wyatt
(of) Chatham Kent Thomas Bird (of) Oxford
Proved 21st May 1831 James Mathews, written Matthews
in the will. Power reserved to Elizabeth Clark
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