Farrier Will 1716

Will of Thomas Farrier

of West Langdon, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 16/367 F/4
Submitted by James Canney
I Thomas Farier of the Parish of West Langdon in the County of Kent Yeoman being sick & weake in Body but of sound & p[er]fect minde & memory (praised be God therefore) do make & ordaine this my Last Will and Testament in manner & forme following
First I bequeath my Soule to God who gave it & my Body I Comend to the Earth whereof it is in add to be decently interred at the Discretion of my executrix hereafter named

Item I give & bequeath unto my Eldest Sonne Thomas Farrier my Chest

All the rest & residue of my goods Chattells household stuffe Bedding Linnin woollen brass pewter & utensils of household whatsoever or of what nature or kind soever and alsoe all my horses & other Cattell & all my Cropp & Cropps of Corne now standing growing growing & being upon the Farme & Lands now in my occupation & all my Waggons, Courts, ploughs & other utensills of husbandry whatsoever & all my hoggs & piggs whtsoever
& alsoe all my ready goods Chattells & p[er]sonall Estate whatsoever & wheresoever after my Debts Funerall expences & probate of this my will are first paid & discharged
I give will devise and bequeath unto my welbeloved wife Susan and unto my two Sonnes Thomas & Edward Farrier Equally to be divided between them

And of this my Last Will & Testament and I make & ordaine nominate & appoynt my said Wife Susan full & sole Executrix
and my good freind Mathew Petly Overseer of this my Will desireing him to be ayding & assisting unto my said wife in the due Execution of the same
And even soe I comend this my last Will & Testament hereby revoking all former Willes by me heretofore made

In Witnes whereof I the said Thomas Farrier have hereunto sett my hand & Seale at this eleventh day of May Anno dini 1716 And in the Second yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King George over Greate Britain, &c.
Thomas X Farrier

Signed Sealed published & Declared by the said Thomas Farrier to be his last Will & Testament in the prsence of us who have Subscribed our names as witnesses thereunto in the prsence of the said Testator
Robert Austen James Sladen Elizabeth Farrier X her marke Jos Scoes?

Probatum fuit: 4th June 1716

Note: Thomas Farrier was buried 15th May 1716 at SS Peter & Paul, Sutton-by-Dover, Kent.

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 25th May 2022


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