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Wills of Sheerness Shipwrights 1693 - 1855
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills (Pre 1858)
PETER
STURGESS 1806
IN
THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I PETER STURGESS of
Sheerness Shipwright being very sick and weak in Body but of perfect
Mind and Memory thanks be
given unto God calling unto
Mind the Mortality of the Body and Knowing that it is appointed
for all Men once to die do
make and ordain this my last Will and that is to say
Principally and first of all I
give and bequeath my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God that gave it
and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a decent and
Christian Burial at the
discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the General
Resurrection I shall receive
the same again by the
Almighty power of God and as
touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me
with in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following
manner and form
First I give and bequeath to my
loving Sister SUSANNAH KNIGHT the Wife of JOHN KNIGHT
living at Portsmouth the sum
of thirty pounds of lawful
Money of Great Britain to be raised
and levied out of my Estate
Also I give to my loving Brother
in law JOHN KNIGHT Husband of the above named SUSANNAH
the sum of ten pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain
and as to the rest residue and
remainder of my Monies Securities for Money and Credits Goods Chattels
and all other my personal Estate and Effects
whatsoever and wheresoever subject and chargeable with the
payment of my Debts Funeral Expenses
and the above Legacies
I give and bequeath the same and
every part thereof unto my Son in Law WILLIAM AUSTIN and
to and for his own proper &
absolute use and benefit and
I nominate and appoint my said Son
in Law WILLIAM AUSTIN
sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I the said PETER
STURGESS the Testator to this my last Will and Testament
set my Hand and Seal this twenty fourth day of October in the
year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and six PETER STURGESS Signed Sealed
and Declared by the said PETER
STURGESS the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament
in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of
each other we hereunto subscribe our Names as Witnesses
THOS PENNY
JAS THOMAS
AMBROSE PIPER during the ?
Proved 25th November 1806
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