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Wills of 18th CENTURY CHATHAM SHIPWRIGHTS
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799) - Transcribed by D.E. Williams

Francis TUSON 1759

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Francis Tuson of Chatham in the county of Kent shipwright being weak and infirm in body but of sound mind memory and understanding (praised be God) make this my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say) I give and devise all and every my messuages or tenements lands and heriditaments whatsoever and wheresoever as well freehold as leasehold with their appurtenances unto my honoured father and mother William Tuson and Elizabeth his wife and to their assigns for and during their lives and the life of the longest liver of them and from and after the decease of the survivor of them unto my brother William Tuson and the heirs of his body lawfully to be begotten and for want of such issue unto my sister Sarah (wife of John Keate) and to her heirs and assigns for ever also I give and bequeath unto my cousin Augustine Tuson the sum of one hundred pounds of lawfull money of Great Britain to be paid him within three months next after the decease of the survivor of them my said father and mother all the rest and residue of my ready money and securities for money debts goods chattells and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever I give and bequeath unto my said father William Tuson whom I do hereby make and ordain full and sole executor of this my last will and testament and I do hereby revoke and make void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made in witness whereof I the said Francis Tuson heve hereunto set my hand and seal dated the thirtieth day of August in the thirty third 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 and so forth and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine Frans. Tuson signed sealed published and declared by the said Francis Tuson the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our names hereunto in the presence of each other and of the said testator Edwd. Haite Rt. Spray William Baker

Proved 18th December 1759

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