Item I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Hunt Widow and to her Heirs (and) Executors Five and Twenty pounds to be paid that Day Twelve Months after my decease
Item I give unto my Grandson Jacob Baker son of Rich: Baker deceased twenty pounds to be paid as followeth Vizt.: Ten pounds to be paid at the age of Fifteen years and Ten pounds Residue at the age of Twenty Years and if (it) please God my Grandchild Jacob should die before he attains to these years my meaning is the said Twenty pounds to be equally divided between his two Sisters (that is to say) Joan Baker and Jane Baker and to be paid as aforesaid according to the age of Jacob.
Item I give unto Elizabeth Baker my Grandaughter and daughter to Richard Baker deceased Fifteen
pounds of lawfull Money of England to be paid that day twelve months after my decease
And my meaning is that all the Legacies aforementioned to be lawfull Money of England
Item I give and bequeath unto my Son John Baker all and singular my Houses Lands and all my goods Chattells Houshold stuff Debts ready money Plate Linnen beding Brass pewter part of Boats or Vessells Nets and other Fishing Craft and all other my Goods and Chatells ad personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever after my debts Funerall Expences and probate of this my will are first paid and satisfied
And of this my last will and testament I make and ordain my said Son John Baker sole Executor paying of me John Baker Senr Two pounds every Year for every Ten Years to come of for the terme of my Life which is over and above mentioned in a pair of Indentures made between us in the Year of our Lord 1704 bearing date the 9th of February and in the third Year of her Majesties reign Ann and even so I conclude the same hereby revoking all former Wills heretofore made
In Witness whereof I the said John Baker have hereunto set my hand and seal this one and Twentieth
day of January Anno Dini 1707(8) and in the sixth Year of the reign of (our) Sovereign Lady Ane by the
Grace of God Queen of Great Britain, etc.
John Baker
Signed sealed published & declared by the said John Baker to his last will and Testament in the presence of us
Margaret Elgar - Tho: Basly - Tho: Penny
Probatum fuit: Decimo (10th) dei July 1708.
Notes:
John Baker died on 25th June 1708 (4th month = June in Quaker calendar) and was buried on 28th June
1708 at Folkestone at the Friends burying place.
Wife Elizabeth Baker died and was buried on 1st June 1705 at the Friends burying place in Folkestone.
On 4th November 1656, John Baker married Elizabeth Elgar at SS Mary & Eanswith, Folkestone.
Their children (christened at various churches within Folkestone):
27 Aug 1657 Elizabeth; 4 Feb 1660 Ann; 10 Dec 1661 Margret; 11 Oct 1663 John; (all at SS Mary &
Eanswith). Then on 20 Sep 1668 Thomas (Folkestone, no church given).
Daughter Elizabeth Baker married John Hunt on 15th Dec 1678 at SS Mary & Eanswith, Folkestone.
Daughter Ann Baker (who allegedly marries Richard Baker) actually married a Richard Box, according to Canterbury Marriage Licences, on 4th June 1683. She was 23 and of Folkestone; he was 24, Bachelor of Folkestone and they were married by Licence at St. Alphage, Canterbury. That said, he seems to have taken the surname of Baker.
Son Jacob Baker, of Richard and Elizabeth Baker, was christened 5 Jun 1698 at Folkestone. Other
children: Elizabeth 24 Nov 1695; Joanna 18 Oct 1696; Jane 26 Nov 1699 � all christened at Folkestone.
Jacob, Joan and Jane Baker are all mentioned in the above Will � but there are no children of Richard
and Ann Box � or Baker � just of Richard and Elizabeth Baker.
No christening of a Richard Box has been found in Kent � BUT Bax and Baker both exist.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 7th October 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.
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