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Wills of 19th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills (Pre 1858)
Thomas
GIBSON proved 1825
IN THE NAME OF GOD
AMEN
I Thomas Gibson of the Parish of
Chatham in the County of Kent Shipwright being of sound and disposing
mind and memory but considering the uncertainty of life I do make this
my last Will and Testament in manner and form following First
and principally I resign my Soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping
to be saved through the alone merits of Jesus Christ my only Saviour and
Redeemer And
my body I commit to the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion
of Mary my lawful Wife and all Bills funeral charges All
and whatsoever that is now or may become my Sole right to make good
(being acquitted and discharged) I
then give and bequeath to Mary my lawful Wife my leasehold tenement
together with the Yard Garden Wash house Outhouses with the
Appurtenances Situate and being in Fort Row Ordnance Place Chatham in
the County of Kent Also
my Beds Bedding Linen and Woollen Books and Plate And
also every ready money and money due to me in His Majesty's Yard with
all Club moneys with my Clothes and Working Tools I do hereby nominate
constitute and appoint my aforesaid Wife Mary Gibson my
Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and Seal on this twentieth day of May in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four Thomas
Gibson Signed Sealed Published and declared by the
Testator as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us and in his
presence and the presence of each other as Witnesses Samuel
Stoneham Thomas Bromley
Proved 10th December 1825
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