Edward Crump
1819
Edward Crump seems to be a forgotten figure
in Rochester's history. He and Charles Ross, Senior, who was his
brother in law, were probably partners in the private shipbuilding
industry of Rochester, although the exact business relationship is not
clear. Ships were built in the 18th century by Ross's company some for
the Hudson Bay Company. In 1790 Crump is mentioned in the Kentish
Gazette as a "shipbuilder" of Rochester.
Charles Ross's son, also Charles, although only about 21, is said to be
a shipbuilder, in 1791; he also married this year Mary Baldock.
In 1803, Crump was the purchaser from the Dean and Chapter of Rochester
of a 40 year leases on 2 houses, a wharf and shipyard. I am presuming
this is Acorn Wharf. But until the West Kent archives at Strood, closed
during the present pandemic, reopens it is not possible to see if the
lease names Acorn Wharf, which was the Ross yard.
Charles Junior died in 1808 and his widow, Mary took over the business
and it was through her correspondence that business was done with the
Admiralty. No mention seems to be made of Crump in connection with the
operation of the business, yet he seems to have been a presence in
shipbuilding in Rochester in the 18th century and close relation of the
Ross family, brother in law to Charles Senior and uncle to Charles
Junior and at the age of about 58 in 1791, a man of considerable
experience and expertise, so Charles Ross Junior and Mary Ross must have
relied heavily on him, especially when Mary carried on the business from
1808 to 1814.
THIS IS THE LAST WILL and
Testament of me EDWARD CRUMP of the City of Rochester in the County of
Kent formerly Shipwright but now Gentleman which I make in manner
following that is to say I do hereby
give devise and bequeath unto my good friends JOSEPH SLATTERIE
of Chatham in the said County Minister of the Gospel and WILLIAM BATE
of the same place Draper and my dear Great Nephew EDWARD DELL
of Woolwich in the same County of Kent Gentleman (my Executors herein
after named and appointed) all those my seven Leasehold Messuages
tenements or Dwellinghouses which I hold by two separate Leases of the
Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Rochester (but described in
one lease five houses and the other one with the Yards Gardens and
appurtenances thereunto respectively belonging situate lying and being
on the Brook or Smithfield Bank in the parish of Chatham aforesaid and
now in the occupation of [
] COLLETT and others to hold the same
unto them the said JOSEPH SLATTERIE WILLIAM BATE
and EDWARD DELL their Executors and Administrators upon trust as
soon as conveniently may be after my decease to make sale and dispose of
the said Leasehold premises either by public auction or private contract
to any person or persons who shall be willing to become and to be the
purchaser or purchasers thereof for the best price and most money that
can be reasonably had and gotten for the same and after paying all costs
charges and expenses attending such sale or sales It is my mind and will
that they my said Trustees and Executors or the Survivors or Survivor of
them or the Executors & administrators of such Survivor shall stand
possessed of the net produce thereof upon trust In the first place to
pay all debts which I may owe at the time of my decease and after the
payment thereof I give and bequeath thereon the following legacies to
the said JOSEPH SLATTERIE one hundred pounds and to the
said WILLIAM BATE the sum of forty pounds as a token of my
regard and for the care and trouble they will have in in and about the
execution of this my will and the trusts thereof and the residue of such
trust monies I give and bequeath to my dear Wife ELIZABETH CRUMP
for her own use and benefit and I do hereby give and bequeath unto them
the said JOSEPH SLATTERIE WILLIAM BATE and EDWARD
DELL the sum of one hundred pounds Stock Navy five per cent
annuities of which for the convenience of receiving the Interest I
lately transferred into the name of the said EDWARD DELL
and I do direct him his Executors or Administrators (as soon as
conveniently may be after my decease) to transfer and sell out such
stock and if in the event of his death before me the same be performed
by his Exors or Admons that they deliver the produce thereof to my
Surviving trustees and executors And it is my mind and will that they
the said JOSEPH SLATTERIE WILLIAM BATE and EDWARD
DELL and the Survivors or Survivor of them and the Executors
Administrators of such Survivor do and shall stand and be possessed of
the produce of such sale Upon trust to pay and satisfy the costs and
charges of my funeral and the proving of this my will and any surplus
thereof I give and bequeath to my said dear Wife ELIZABETH CRUMP
for her own use and benefit And I do hereby give and devise all that my
freehold Messuages or Tenements Hereditaments and premises situate lying
and being in Plumbers otherwise Plummers Row Mile End Old Street in the
County of Middlesex and now in the tenure or occupation of my dear
Sister MARY PIZZEY unto her the said MARY PIZZEY
for and during the term of her natural life and from and immediately
after her decease I give and devise unto my Great Nephew THOMAS ANDERSON
Son of my said Sister’s Daughter MARY ANDERSON the said
last mentioned Messuage or tenement and premises to Hold the same unto
him the said THOMAS ANDERSON his heirs and assigns for
ever and I do hereby give and devise
unto my said dear Wife ELIZABETH CRUMP all that my
Messuage or tenement hereditaments situate at the Corner of Crow Lane in
the said City of Rochester and now in the tenure or occupation of [
] LOWRY
And also all that my tenement or dwelling house yard and premises
situate in the said Lane called Crow Lane in the City of Rochester and
now in the occupation of [
] PANKHURST (being one of three
sometime since erected and built by me on ground heretofore belonging to
the premises last mentioned and those in the tenure or occupation of [
]
HUBBARD and also all those six messuages or tenements yards
gardens and premises situate lying and being in Saint Margaret’s
Street in the tenure or occupation of [
] WATERHOUSE [
] COX
the Widow WILLIAMS and others to hold the same respectively unto
her the said ELIZABETH CRUMP and her assigns for and
during the term of her natural life she keeping the same in good and
tenantable repair order and good condition And from and immediately
after her decease Then for and concerning the said messuage or tenement
and premises at the Corner of Crow Lane and now in the occupation of [
]
LOWRY with the cellar under the same at present used with my said
Messuage or tenement with my said Messuage or tenement in the occupation
of [ ] HUBBARD Tailor and Draper so Soon as the Lease of the
adjoining premises ends and determined I
give and devise the same unto my dear Sister REBECCA ROSS
of Gravesend in the said County of Kent Widow and her Daughter REBECCA
ROSS of the same ace Spinster and their assigns for and during
the term of their joint natural lives and the life of the Survivor or
the longer lived of them And from and after the decease of such Survivor
I give and devise unto my said Great
Nephew EDWARD DELL the said messuage or tenement and
premises in the occupation of [
] LOWRY with the said cellar (on
the expiration 0f the Lease thereof) To hold the same unto him the said EDWARD
DELL his heirs and assigns for ever and as or for and concerning
four of the said Messuages in Saint Margaret’s Street (which an ? in
one conveyance made thereof and by the Commissioners for the redemption
of the Land Tax) I do hereby give
and devise the same from and after the the decease of my said Wife ELIZABETH
CRUMP unto them the said JOSEPH SLATTERIE WILLIAM
BATE and EDWARD DELL and their heirs Upon trust
that they my said Trustees or the Survivors or Survivor of them and the
heirs executors or administrators of such Survivor do and shall as soon
as conveniently may be after the decease of my said Wife make sale and
dispose of the last mentioned premises either by public sale or private
contract to any person or persons who shall be willing to become and to
be the purchaser or purchaser thereof for the best price and most money
that can be reasonably has and gotten for the same and to facilitate
such sale or sales do and shall make and execute all such deeds
conveyances and assurances in the law whatsoever as shall be needful and
necessary to effect and confirm the same And I do hereby declare that
upon payment of the money to arise therefrom It shall and may be lawful
to and for the said JOSEPH SLATTERIE WILLIAM BATE
and EDWARD DELL and the Survivors or Survivor of them and
the heirs executors or admons of such Survivor to give and sign any
receipt or receipts for the money or monies to arise by such sale or
sales which receipt or receipts shall be good and sufficient release and
discharges both at law and in equity to any purchaser or purchasers his
heirs or their several heirs executors administrators and assigns for so
much of the said purchase money as in any such receipt or receipts shall
be expressed or acknowledged to be received And from and after the same
be given he she or they shall be and are hereby are absolutely acquitted
and discharged of and from the same purchase money or purchase monies
and shall not be thenceforth be bound or obliged to see to the
application thereof or be answerable or accountable for the loss
misapplication or non-application thereof And it is my mind and will
that that they my said Trustees and executors and the Survivors or
Survivor of them and the executors or admons of such Survivor do and
shall stand and be possessed of the monies arising therefrom Upon the
trusts and to and for the ends intents and purposes herein after
mentioned and as to and for and concerning the other two messuages or
tenements and premises in Saint Margaret’s which are intended in one
conveyance made thereof to me by the said Commissioners for the
redemption of the Land Tax I do
hereby give and devise the same from and after the decease of my said
Wife unto him the said EDWARD DELL his heirs and assigns
for ever And I do hereby give and
devise all that my said Messuage or Tenement hereditament s and premises
now in the occupation of the said [ ] HUBBARD situate and
fronting the High Street of Rochester aforesaid (except the said Cellar
which is under the adjoining premises in the occupation of [
] LOWRY
from and after the expiration of the existing Lease) unto them my said
Sister REBECCA ROSS and her Daughter REBECCA ROSS
and their assigns for and during the term of their joint natural lives
and the life of the Survivor or longer lived of them and from and
immediately after the decease of such survivor I
do hereby give and devise unto my dear Great Nephews EDWARD ROSS
CHARLES ROSS STEPHEN ROSS and THOMAS ROSS
Sons of my late Nephew CHARLES ROSS formerly of Rochester
aforesaid Shipbuilder deceased the said last mentioned Mesuage or
tenement hereditaments and premises (except the said Cellar on the
expiration of the said Lease) To hold the same unto them the said EDWARD
ROSS CHARLES ROSS STEPHEN ROSS and THOMAS
ROSS in and by equal parts shares and proportions and to their
respective heirs and assigns for ever as tenants in common and not as
joint tenants and I do hereby give
and devise all those my two other tenements yards and premises situate
in Crow Lane aforesaid near and adjoining the last mentioned and now or
late in the tenure or occupation of [
] EASTWOOD and [
] TENAR? (and being the remaining two of the three tenements and premises so
erected and built on part of the Estate now in the occupation of [
] LOWRY
and [ ] HUBBARD or one of them) to my said Sister REBECCA ROSS
and her Daughter REBECCA ROSS and the survivor of them for
and during the term of the natural life of my said Wife ELIZABETH
CRUMP and from and after the decease of my said Wife I
give and devise the said last two mentioned Tenements or Dwelling houses
and premises and also the said tenement or dwelling house yard and
premises next and adjoining and now in the occupation of [
] PANKHURST
unto the said EDWARD DELL his heirs and assigns for ever
and I do hereby give devise and
bequeath unto SARAH GLOSLER (the Servant now residing with
me and my said Wife) all those my three Leasehold Messuages or tenements
(which I hold from the Dean and Chapter of Rochester but described in
the lease only as two) with the Hereditaments and premises thereunto
belonging situate lying and being near the White Hart on the Brook or
Smithfield Bank aforesaid and now or late in the tenure or occupation of
[ ] READ and others with all rights and benefits of renewal To
hold the same unto her the said SARAH GLOSLER her
executors administrators and assigns from and after the fourth feast or
usual quarterly day for payment of rent in the year which shall happen
next after my decease for and during the remainder of my term and
interest therein then to come and unexpired for her and her own use and
benefit subject to the rents covenants and agreements reserved mentioned
and contained on my part and behalf in the Lease whereby I hold the same
premises and renewing the same at her own costs and charges if she be so
minded and the said lease come in the course of renewal within the said
four quarters and I do hereby give
and bequeath unto my said dear Wife ELIZABETH CRUMP all
the ready money which shall be in my Dwelling house at the time of my
decease together with such part and so much of my household goods and
furniture plate linen and China which belonged to her at the time of our
marriage (An Inventory or Account of which the said SARAH GLOSLER
has or will testify?) and all the rents which may bet then due and
owing to me for all and every my Freehold and Leasehold premises (except
those therein before given and devised to my said Sister MARY PIZZEY)
together with the first four quarters rent of the said three leasehold
messuages of tenements hereditaments and premises on the Brook Chatham
in the occupation of [
] READ and others for the sole and only
proper use and benefit of my said Wife and I
do hereby further give and bequeath unto my said dear Wife ELIZABETH
CRUMP for and during the term of her natural life the interest
dividends and annual produce of and singular my monies due upon Mortgage
Bond Bill note or other security and also the use and occupation for the
like time of all the remaining part of my household goods and furniture
plate linen and China And if during my said Wife’s life any of my said
securities should be paid off and discharged then I direct my said
Trustees and executors to lay out at interest the monies so coming into
their hands or some or one of the public Stocks or Funds or in the
purchase of Government Securities whereby the principal may easily be
obtained at her decease and in the meantime to pay her during her life
the dividends or interest to arise and arrive from such
? purchased
Stock and securities and from and after the decease of my said Wife It
is my mind and will that the said JOSEPH SLATTERIE WILLIAM
BATE and EDWARD DELL and the Survivors or Survivor
of them and the executors and administrators of such Survivor do and
shall call in all my mortgages bonds bills notes and all other
securities which may be then outstanding and due and owing to my said
Estate by giving each of the said parties six calendar months notice for
that purpose and stand possessed of the monies arising therefrom and all
and every the Stocks funds or Government securities that I may die
possessed of or those which may be purchased by my said Trustees and
executors or n ? with the purchase monies arising from the sale or sales
of the said four messuages or tenements and premises in Saint Margaret’s
Upon trust and I do hereby give and
bequeath and direct to be paid there out from the first monies which may
come to their hands sufficient for the purpose the following legacies
that is to say To my said Sister REBECCA ROSS and her
daughter REBECCA ROSS or the Survivor of them the sum of
two hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain for their own use
and benefit To Niece MARY ANDERSON (the now Wife of [
] ANDERSON)
the sum of fifty pounds And to my Niece ELIZA EDGAR (the
now Wife of [
] EDGAR )the sum of one hundred pounds of like
lawful money for their own use and benefit
But as to the legacy of the said ELIZA EDGAR I do herby
direct it is to be independent of her present or any future husband with
whom she may remarry and not to be subject or liable to but free from
his will power or control debts or engagements and that her receipt for
the same whether married or sole and notwithstanding her covertue shall
be a good and sufficient discharge said Executors And further I
give and bequeath thereout unto my my Great Nieces SARY MARY
and REBECCA ROSS (children of my said late Nephew CHARLES
ROSS and to MARY ANN DUNCAN late MARY
ANN ANDERSON (one of the Daughters of my said Niece MARY
ANDERSON) the sum of one hundred pounds each To FANNY SLATTERIE
and ELIZA SLATTERIE two of the Daughters of the said JOSEPH
SLATTERIE to my Wife's Niece MARY BAKER to SARAH
CRUMP DELL (the Daughter of the said EDWARD DELL
) And to my said Great Nephew THOMAS ANDERSON the sum of
fifty pounds each for their respective use and benefit and which last
mentioned legacies I direct shall become a vested and trans missable
interest in them ? ? ? the said several legacies immediately on my
decease and to be paid and payable to such of them as may be under age
as and when they attain their ages of twenty one years or days of
marriage which shall first happen and the interest in the meantime to be
paid and applied for and towards their respective maintenance and
support Also I bequeath thereout
unto the said EDWARD DELL to his Brother WILLIAM DELL
and to the said SARAH GLOSLER the sum of fifty pounds each
and to my Great Nephews BENJAMIN DELL CHARLES DELL
and JOSEPH DELL Brothers of the said EDWARD & WILLIAM
DELL And to JOHN CLIFFORD of Sittingbourne in the
County of Kent Blacksmith the sum of nineteen pounds nineteen shillings
each and to my Friend JOHN DARBY of the Inner Temple
London Gentleman the sum of ten pounds all of like lawful money for
their respective use and benefit and to be a like vested interest in
them immediately on my decease and I do hereby direct that the
? of such
trust monies (except what is hereinafter next mentioned shall sink into
and be considered as part of my personal estate and go as I have
bequeathed the same And also for and
concerning the sum of two hundred pounds due and owing to me from the
said JOHN CLIFFORD or any Stocks Funds Securities to be
purchased or laid out with the money arising therefrom I
do hereby give and bequeath the same from and after my said Wife's
decease unto my said Sister MARY PIZZEY in case she shall
then be living and if dead then unto her Daughter the said MARY ANDERSON
and unto ELIZABETH DELL (the Wife of the said EDWARD
DELL) in and by equal parts shares and proportions for their
respective use and benefit and I do
hereby give and bequeath unto the said EDWARD DELL my
share in the Kent Fire Office And
whereas under and by virtue of a Deed of Covenant bearing date the
seventeenth day of January One thousand eight hundred and nine I am now
entitled to the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds and interest to
arrive thereon from and after the decease of my Wife ELIZABETH CRUMP
Now I do hereby give and bequeath
the sum of one hundred pounds part thereof with the interest to arrive
as aforesaid unto the said SARAH GLOSLER if she should
outlive my said Wife but not otherwise for her own use and benefit One
hundred pounds other part thereof to sink into the residue of my Estate
and the remaining sum of one hundred and fifty pounds with the interest
to arrive therefrom as aforesaid unto the said MARY ANN DUNCAN
late MARY ANN ANDERSON and her two Sisters ELIZABETH
ANDERSON and SARAH ANDERSON in and by equal parts
shares and proportions to be paid and payable to such of them who may be
under age as and when they shall obtain their respective ages of twenty
one years or be married but in case of the decease of any or either of
them during the life time of me and my said Wife without their leaving
lawful Issue then I give and bequeath the part and share or her of them
so dying unto the survivors or survivor if more than one in like shares
and if but one the whole to such only surviving one And
as to all the rest residue and remainder of my trust monies Stocks Funds
and Securities and other my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and
wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever the same doth shall or may
consist of which may be due owing or belonging unto me or which I may be
interested in or entitled to at the time of my decease in by or through
any right ? or means whatsoever I do
hereby give and bequeath the same unto them my said Sisters MARY PIZZEY
and REBECCA ROSS in and by equal parts shares and
proportions for their own use and benefit But in case my said Sisters or
either of them shall then be dead I give the part of share of her my
said Sister MARY PIZZEY unto her Daughter the said MARY
ANDERSON and the part and share of her my said Sister REBECCA
ROSS unto her Daughter REBECCA ROSS for their
respective use and benefit of my said Nieces ?
who may so become
entitled and I do hereby constitute
and appoint them the said JOSEPH SLATTERIE WILLIAM BATE
and EDWARD DELL Executors hereof and authorise and empower
them and each of them and at ? all
? and ? whatsoever to reimburse
themselves ? out of my said Estate and Effects or the income
? produce
thereof all costs charges and expenses whatever which they shall pay
expend or be put unto or which shall be ?
or sustained by any or either
of them in and about the execution of this my will and the trusts
thereof or any suit or proceedings act in matter or thing whatsoever
relating thereto and I do hereby declare that monies or any other parts
of my Estate and Effects or the income or produce thereof that shall be
actually received by them or come to their respective hands by virtue of
this my will and the trusts thereof nor the one of them for the acts
receipts and payments of the others or other of them but each of them
for himself & his own Acts Receipts and payments or disbursements
only and I hereby revoking and
making void all former and other Will and Wills by me at any time
heretofore made do declare this only to be and contain my last Will and
Testament In witness whereof I the said EDWARD CRUMP the
testator have to this my last will and testament contained in eight
sheets of paper written on one side thereof only to this eighth and last
thereof the second day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighteen EDWARD CRUMP
Signed Sealed published and declared by the said EDWARD CRUMP
the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of
us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other
have subscribed our names as Witnesses hereto J. STEPHENS
J.C. STEPHENS M.S.
STEPHENS
Codicil 1
Whereas I the above named EDWARD CRUMP have made and
? published my last Will and Testament in manner and to the form and ?
herein before set forth Now I make this a Codicil thereto
? same to be
taken as part thereof And in the
first place I direct that if the said sum of One hundred pounds five per
cent shall be found insufficient (as I expect it will)to answer satisfy
and pay my Funeral expenses and that of proving this my Will and Codicil
then ? and such part of a further sum of seventy five pounds stock which
? expressed in my said will I have in the like manner as the one hundred
pounds Stock transferred into and the same is now ?
? of my said Great
Nephew EDWARD DELL in the books of the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England shall be taken and applied for such
purposes and the residue of the said Stock I
give and bequeath to my said dear Wife ELIZABETH CRUMP for
her own use and disposal And I also absolutely give and bequeath to my
said Wife all such and so much of my Household Goods and furniture as
belonged to her before our intermarriage and I
do hereby give and bequeath unto the said EDWARD DELL from
and after my Wife's decease my Bible ? by the Reverend Matthew Henry my
Silver Coffee pot and teapot and stand and my eight day Clock And
after the same event I bequeath unto my Great Niece MARY ANN DUNCAN six
silver table spoons for her own use and benefit And
from and after my said Wife's decease I do hereby give and bequeath unto
my said Great Nephew CHARLES ROSS the sum of One hundred
pounds for his own use and benefit and which with the and which with the
legacies in my said Will I do hereby (the next 2½ lines are crossed
out) Such to be paid out of the monies which shall first come to the
hands of my said Executors? of due and owing to me from the said WILLIAM
BATE And also from the sale of the said four houses in Saint
Margaret's to ? And from which I
? to be sold with the intention of ?
to
answer and satisfy such legacies and whereas WILLIAM MATHER
of Chatham Carpenter is and stands indebted to me in the sum of eight
hundred and fifty pounds on mortgage of certain messuages or tenements
on Saint Margaret's Bank Rochester and in one hundred pounds on a
certain promissory note of hand by him and his surety and whereas I
expect the said WILLIAM MATHER will find great difficulty
in raising the money either by sale of the Estate or getting a person to
take the mortgage Now if he the said WILLIAM MATHER his
heirs executors admons or assigns do and shall well and truly pay off
and satisfy the said mortgage debt of eight hundred & fifty pounds
within twelve months next after the decease of my said wife Then I do
hereby release and discharge him and his said surety from all claims and
demands by reason of the said note and do direct my said Executors to
deliver up the same to him or them cancelled or to be cancelled but if
he or they neglect to pay off such mortgage debts within the time
aforesaid then the said note to be in full force And I direct my
Executors to seek to recover the amount thereof and it is my mind and
will that when and as the said mortgage money and securities so due and
owing by the said WILLIAM MATHER shall br paid off that
they my said Trustees and executors do and shall thereout pay and I
do hereby give and bequeath from such funds the following legacies To my
said Great Nephew EDWARD DELL the sum of fifty pounds for
his own use and benefit and the further sum of One hundred pounds in
order and to the intent that he his executors or admons do and shall
place out the same upon sound real or Government security at interest in
his or their own name or names And stand possessed of the Stock of Funds
so to be invested or taken upon trust for the use and benefit of his son
EDWARD DELL and his youngest Daughter SOPHIA DELL
during their minorities to apply the interest for their use and the
principal to be transferred or paid to them or the survivor of them as
and when they respectively attain the age to twenty one years if both
should so live in and by equal parts shares and proportions and in case
of both their deaths under the said age Then I
bequeath the said Stocks or securities to the personal next of kin of
the survivor of them to the said WILLIAM BATE the sum of
fifty pounds and to the said JOHN CLIFFORD thirty pounds
for their respective use and benefit To CAROLINE the Daughter of
of my said Niece MARY ANDERSON MARY the Daughter of
my said Great Nephew CHARLES ROSS and MARY ANN
DUNCAN the Daughter of of my said Great Niece MARY ANN
DUNCAN the sum of fifty pounds each And if at the time of my said
Wife's decease they should be in their minorities (which there is reason
to expect they will) then I direst the respective legacies of such of
them as shall so be in their minorities to be paid to their Father or
Mother or their personal representative in order that the sum may be
placed out at Interest in like Manner as is hereto before directed
concerning the legacies of the Son and youngest Daughter of the said EDWARD
DELL and the Interest be applied in like Manner and the said
respective legacies themselves be given to or to the use of the said CAROLINE
ANDERSON MARY ROSS and MARY ANN DUNCAN
the younger as the Stocks Funds or Securities in which the same nay be
then placed to be paid and transferred on such legacies of them
respectively attaining their ages of twenty one years And in case of any
or either of their deaths during their minorities then the respective
legacies or the said Stocks to go to the personal next of kin or her or
them so dying And I also give and
bequeath out of such monies to JOHN BOYCE or BURRE
?, and FRANCES BOYCE or BURRE ?, Son and Daughter
of the late JOHN BOYCE or BURRE ?, the sum of
nineteen pounds nineteen shillings each with liberty for my said
trustees and executors at their discretion to place out the same at
interest for the use of such Children or at any time during their
minorities to pay and apply the same for their use if placed out at
interest and the same shall continue so until such Children respectively
arrive at the age of twenty one years then I direct the same to be paid
to or the Stocks and securities to be transferred to them accordingly
with benefit of ? and in case of their deaths before the appropriation
of the said legacies I give and
bequeath the same or the said Stocks Funds and securities to be
purchased therewith to their personal next of Kin and I
also out of such monies give to my good friend JOHN STEPHENS
of Chatham aforesaid Solicitor the sum of ten pounds as a token of my
resect for him And I further direct that the remainder of the said
monies arising from my said securities shall fall into the residue of my
personal Estate and go as I I have herein before bequeathed the same And
in all other respects I do hereby ratify and confirm my said Will and
the Gifts as devised bequests and trusts therein contained In
witness whereof I the said EDWARD CRUMP the testator have
to this Codicil written on part of the front and back of the eighth
sheet of my said Will and the front of the last sheet or cover thereto
set my hand and seal the nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen EDWARD CRUMP
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Testator EDWARD CRUMP
as and for a Codicil to his last Will and testament in the presence of
us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other
have subscribed our names as Witnesses hereto J. C.
STEPHENS M. J. STEPHENS
Codicil 2
This 3rd May 1819 It is the wish of Mr EDWARD CRUMP that
the residue of his silver not mentioned in his will should be delivered
at the death of Mrs CRUMP to his Niece REBECCA ROSS
the things as follow viz 1 Silver pint Mug 2 Table Spoons or more or
less 1 Soup Ladle 1 Milk Pot all the Tea Spoons The Silver Watch to his
Nephew EDWARD DELL
EDWARD CRUMP (no witnesses)
Affidavit 16th July 1819
JOHN STEPHENS and MARY PIZZEY are sworn.
They state they were well acquainted with EDWARD CRUMP and
are very familiar with his handwriting and signature. They have
carefully examined the will and codicils and confirm they are in CRUMP'S
hand and that alterations were made before the will and witnessed
codicil were signed.
MARY PIZZEY signs the affidavit with her mark.
Proved 19th July 1819