Chelsfield Wills - Part 1
Abstracts of will from Chelsfield proved in
the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Richard Jackson
of Chelsfield dated 4 July 1780
Abstract of the will of Richard Jackson of Chelsfield
farmer dated 4 July 1780.
My body to be buried at the expense of my wife Mary, whom I
appoint Executrix during her lifetime.
I leave my wife all my personal effects, implements and
utensils in farming, and also all my household goods and furniture.
" I will and desire that my two sons James and Thomas
would live with their mother and assist and help her in the management of
the farming [sic] I am now possessed of she allowing them proper wages and
such other advantages and emoluments as the times and improvement of the
farm shall admit of and after her demise then I will and appoint my two
sons James and Thomas sole and joint Executors of this my last will and
testament with a full power of recovering and paying her debts and of
taking for their own use both within and without doors, with the proviso
that they cause to be paid such legacies and at such times as shall herein
afterwards be mentioned."
To my eldest son Richard Jackson £40, to be paid
within one year after the death of his mother, but in case he die before
then this legacy is to remain to the Executors.
To my daughter Elizabeth wife of John Warry wheelwright, of
Green Hive [sic] in Kent, £40 on the same conditions.
To my son William Jackson £40 on the same conditions.
To my son Bartholomew nothing, as he has received his portion
during my lifetime.
To my grandson John Pocock £20 at age 21, on the same
conditions.
To my grandsons James and Benjamin Martin £10 each at age 21
or within one year of my wife’s death, on the same conditions, except
that if one die the survivor is to be his heir.
Witness John Hayler [only]
Richard X Jackson
"N.B. Upon reading the said Will to the Testator the following
Omissions were at his express desire and by his order inserted and marked:
page the third: Item I give to my son in law William Barkin
one shilling to be paid to him one month after my interment.
If my sons Thomas and James shall not choose to live and farm
together, then "such of my effects as shall be remaining at the death
of my beloved wife Mary together with all my live stock implements of
hubandry household goods grain of all sorts growing on the farm or in the
barns ricks stacks or by whatever other names called be fairly justly and
equally shared and divided between them, each allowing his share towards
the discharge of the within-bequeathed legacies according to the tenor of
this will."
Proved 11 December 1780 by Mary Jackson widow the
relict. [PCC will PROB11/1072]
Transcribed by Geoffrey
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