Aspects of Kentish Local History

Wills of Rochester Shipwrights 1652 - 1837
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills  (Pre 1858)

Thomas WALDRON 1746

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I THOMAS WALDRON of the parish of St Margaret next the City of Rochester in the County of Kent Shipwright being in health of Body and of sound Mind Memory and Understanding do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say In the first place I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God the Creator thereof in and through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer and my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor herein after named and as to my Worldly Estate I dispose thereof as followeth Item all those my three Leasehold Messuages or Tenements Yards Backsides Gardens Ground and Premisses with the Appurtenances thereto belonging situate and being in Saint Margaret aforesaid now in the several Occupations of WILLIAM EADEY NICHOLAS READER and the Widow MAY and all my Estate Right Title Interest term of years to come Claim and Demand whatsoever of in and to the same together with the Lease or Leases thereof I give and bequeath unto JOHN PARSONS of the City of Rochester House Carpenter his Executors Administrators and Assigns upon the several Trusts and for the several Uses Interests and Purposes herein after mentioned that is to say upon Trust and Confidence that he the said JOHN PARSONS his Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will permit and suffer my Son ZEPHANIAH WALDRON and his Assigns to have hold use occupy possess and enjoy the said three leasehold Messuages and premisses with their appurtenances and receive and take the Rents Issues and Profits thereof to his and their own use for and during the term of his natural life keeping the same in good Repair and immediately from and after his decease then upon this further Trust and Confidence that the said JOHN PARSONS his Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will permit and suffer the Heirs of the Body of my Son lawfully begotten and to be begotten to have hold use Occupy Possess and enjoy the said three Messuages and Premisses with their Appurtenances and receive and take the Rents Issues and Profits thereof for and during all the rest and residue of the term of the Lease of the said Premisses and for want of such issue of the Body of my Son then the said JOHN PARSONS his Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will permit and suffer my Sister SARAH ROBINSON her Executors Administrators and Assigns to have hold use Occupy possess and enjoy the said three Messuages and Premisses with their Appurtenances and receive and take the Rents Issues and Profits thereof during all the remainder of the term then to come Item all those my other four Leasehold Messuages or Tenements Yards Backsides Gardens Ground and Premisses with the Appurtenances thereof belonging situate and being in Saint Margaret aforesaid now in my own Occupation and in the Occupation of CHARLES LEPPER RICHARD WARRIN THOMSA BURFORD and GEORGE ACKLIN I give and bequeath unto my said Son ZEPHANIAH WALDRON his Executors Administrators and Assigns Item all and every my ready Money Securities for Money Pay and Wages in Chatham Dock Yard Debts Credits Rings Plate Linen Woollen Goods Chattels Leases and other Personal Estate whatsoever not herein before otherwise disposed of (my Debts and Funeral Expenses being first paid and satisfied) I give and bequeath unto my said Son ZEPHANIAH WALDRON his Executors Administrators and Assigns and of this my Will I nominate and appoint my said Son ZEPHANIAH WALDRON sole Executor of this my Will hereby revoking all former and other Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made spoken or published and do declare this to be and contain my only last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said THOMAS WALDRON have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and Seal the nineteenth day of November in the year of our Lord 1739 THOS WALLDRON (sic) Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said THOMAS WALDRON the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence have subscribed our Names as Witnesses hereto ELIZABETH COOPER THO JOHNSON

Proved 19th January 1746 (1747)