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Wills of Rochester Shipwrights 1652 - 1837
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills (Pre 1858)
Thomas
PATTEN 1764
I THOMAS PATTEN of the
parish of Saint Margaret next the City of Rochester in the County of
Kent Shipwright being in good heath of body and of sound and disposing
Mind and Memory do hereby make my last Will and Testament first and
principally 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 ea as it shall please
God and as for such Worldly Estate and Effects which I shall be
possessed of or entitled unto at the time of my decease I
give and bequeath the same as followeth that is to say All
and singular my pay wages Earnings either as a Carpenter's Mate on board
his Majesty's Ship Colloden or in any other Ship or Vessel and
also all my pay and wages for my service or otherwise in his Majesty's
Dock Yard at Antigua or elsewhere I
do give devise and bequeath the same unto my Honoured Mother MARY
PATTEN her Heirs and Assigns for ever And
I do hereby nominate constitute and Appoint my said Mother MARY PATTEN
full and sole 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 fourth day of
September in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Sixty
and in the thirty fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
Defender of the faith THOMAS PATTEN Signed
Sealed published and declared by the said THOMAS PATTEN
the Testator 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 JOHN PATTEN RICHD.
BRISTOW
Proved 15th October 1764
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