First I give and bequeath all that my Tenement or dwelling house with the Outhouses Edifices Buildings Yard Garden Ground and Appurtenances thereunto belonging situate lying and being in Lower Deal in Deal aforesaid and now in my own Occupation being held by and under a Lease from his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and all my renewable and other Estate Right Title and Interest therein together with the Lease thereof that shall be subsisting at the time of my decease unto my Son William Cannon and to his Executors Administrators and Assigns absolutely to and for his and their own use and benefit
Also I give and bequeath unto my said Son William Cannon the Sum of Two hundred pounds of lawful Money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as used in England over and above the Sum of One hundred Pounds of like lawful Money which he is intitled to under and by virtue of the last Will and Testament of Mary Morgan late of Deal aforesaid Widow deceased and which was given and bequeathed and directed to be paid to me by the said Will In Trust for my said Son William Cannon and which (the same being paid to me accordingly) I am accountable to him with Interest from the period of Six Months after the decease of the said Mary Morgan
Also I give devise and bequeath all and every my Freehold Messuages Lands Tenements and
Hereditaments and parts purparts and shares of and in any Freehold Messuages Lands Tenements
and Hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever and all other my Leasehold Estate and Estates
whatsoever and wheresoever together with the Lease and Leases thereof that shall be subsisting at the
time of my decease
and also all the Rest and Residue of my Goods Chattles Effects Debts due and owing to me Money Securities for Money Money in any of
the public Stocks or Funds of this Kingdom and all other my Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what kind
or nature soever the same may be at the time of my decease (from and after payment out of my said residuary Personal Estate of the
said Legacy of Two hundred Pounds herein before given and bequeathed to my said Son William Cannon and the said Legacy of
One hundred Pounds and Interest for which I am accountable to him under the said Will of the said
Mary Morgan deceased as aforesaid and also of all my just Debts Funeral Expences and the charges of proving and Executing this my Will)
unto my two Sons John Cannon and the said William Cannon equally to be divided between them Share and Share alike and they to
take as Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants and to their several and respective Heirs Executes Administrators and
Assigns according to the nature of the said Estates respectively
And I make constitute and appoint my said two Sons John Cannon and William Cannon Executors of this my last Will and Testament
And lastly I revoke all former Wills by me made
In Witness whereof I the said Walker Cannon the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and seal the day and year
aforesaid
Walker Cannon
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said Walker Cannon the Testator as and for his last Will
and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto
in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other
Jno. May - Tho. White, W.R. Munday – his Clerks
This Will was proved at London on the Twenty sixth day of September in the Year of our Lord One
thousand Eight hundred and four before the Right Honorable Sir William Wynne Knight Doctor of
Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury by the Oaths of John
Cannon and William Cannon the Sons of the deceased and the Executors named in the said Will to
who Administration was granted of all an singular the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said
deceased they having been first sworn by Comon. [Commission] duly to Administer.
Exd.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 20th August 2020
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