And I do Give and Devise All that my Mannor commonly called the Mannor of Dane Court with all Rents Rights Privileges and Appurtenances thereunto
belonging And Also my Mansion House and Estate called Dane Court with all Messuages Lands tenements Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever
thereunto belonging or therewith usually Occupied or enjoyed Situate lying and being in the said Parish of Tilmanstone in the said County of Kent
and now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of myself my Assigns or Undertenants
And all those my two Messuages or Tenements with the Lands Hereditaments and Appurtenances therewith used in Tilmanstone aforesaid formerly in
the Tenure or Occupation of Isaac Billingshurst and Richard Brice or one of them their or one of their Assignes and which my late Father
Richard Harvey Esquire purchased of Mr. John Paramor and All my Estate Right Title and Interest of in and to the same premises unto
my Eldest Son Richard Harvey and to his Heirs and Assigns for ever
Also I give and devise All thise my several pieces or parcels of fresh Marsh Land commonly called or known by the Name of the Yoakes containing
together by Estimation Fifty Six Acres and a half more or less with their and every of their Appurtenances lying and being in the Parish of New
Romney in the said County of Kent and now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Benjamin Wood or of his Assigns
And also all those my several pieces of parcels of fresh Marsh Land containing together by Estimation Thirty Acres more or less with their and
every of their Appurtenances lying and being in the Parishes of Snargate and Warhorne or one of them in the said County of Kent formerly in the
Tenure or Occupation of John Tookey or of his Assignes and now or late of Jane Tookey Widow or of her Assigns
And also my parcek of fresh Marsh land containing by Estimation Four Acres more or less with the Appurtenances lying and being in the Parish of
New Romney aforesaid in the said County of Kent and now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Benjamin Cobb or his Assigns
And All other my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever (not herein before by me otherwise devised and disposed
of) unto my Dear and well beloved Wife Margaret Harvey and to her Heirs and Assigns for ever,
subject Nevertheless to and charged and chargeable with the several Legacies or Sums of Money by me hereinafter given and
bequeathed to my Son Toke Harvey and my Daughters Mary Harvey, Spinster and Katherine Harvey, Spinster (that is to say)
I Give and bequeath unto my said Son Toke Harvey the Sum of Eight Hundred pounds of Lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid unto him within Six
Months next after my Decease;
unto my Daughter Mary Harvey the like Sum of Eight Hundred pounds of like lawfull Money to be paid unto her within Six Months next after my Decease;
and unto my said Daughter Katherine Harvey the like Sum of Eight Hundred pounds of like Lawfull Money to be paid unto her within Six
Months next after she my said Daughter Katherine Shall attain to the Age of one and Twenty Years or be married which shall first happen
And I do hereby expressly charge and Subject All and every my personal Estate whatsoever And Also All and every the said Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and premisses so devised to my said Wife Margaret Harvey and her Heirs in Manner as aforesaid with and to the payment of the said three Legacies or Sums of Eight Hundred pounds, Eight Hundred pounds and Eight Hundred pounds accordingly
Provided always and my Will and Mind is that in Case my said Daughter Katherine Harvey Shall happen to die under the age of one and Twenty Years and unmarried That then the said Legacy of Eight Hundred pounds so bequeathed to her as aforesaid Shall not be paid or payable to her Representatives as a vested Legacy but the same shall from the Time of such Death as aforesaid cease and be void to all Intents and purposes as if no such Legacy had been bequeathed by this my Will
And as for and concerning all the rest and residue of my Goods Chattels Effects Debts due and owing to me Money Securities for Money and all other my Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever and of what Kind or nature soever the same may be or which I have any power to make a Disposition of un Possession or Expectancy (after payment of all my just Debts and Funeral Expences and the Legacies before given and bequeathed) I do give and bequeath direct and Appoint the same and every part thereof unto my said dear and loving Wife Margaret Harvey her Executors Administrators and Assigns
And I make constitute and Appoint my said Wife Margaret Harvey full and Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
and I do also Appoint my said Wife to be Guardian of my said (daughter) Katherine Harvey until She Shall attain to her age of one and Twenty Years
And I Will and direct that my said Wife Shall and may have and take the Interest Money of the said
Legacy or Sum of Eight Hundred pounds so bequeathed to my said Daughter Katherine as aforesaid
until She my said Daughter Katherine Shall Attain the said Age of one and Twenty years for and
towards the Maintenance and Education of my said Daughter Katherine without being Accountable to her for any such Interest Money
Also I will and declare that the said several Legacies of Eight Hundred pounds, Eight Hundred pounds and Eight Hundred pounds hereby bequeathed to my said Children Toke Harvey, Mary Harvey and Katherine Harvey respectively as aforesaid Shall not be deemed or taken as part of the portions and Maintenance Provided for them in or by my Marriage Articles or any Settlement or Settlements made un pursuance thereof but that the same are by me intended for them as an Increas(e) of and Augmentation to such Portions and Maintenance as they may be untitled unto or can claim thereby
And Lastly I revoke and make void all former Wills be me made
In Witness whereof I the said John Harvey have to this my last Will and Testament contained in three Sheets of Paper affixed together to
the two first Sheets thereof set my Hand and to this third and last Sheet thereof my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above written
John Harvey
Signed and Sealed by the said John Harvey and by him published and Declared 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 and at his Request
Thos. Fuller; Henry Dilnot; Jno. Middleton
The before registered Will of John Harvey deceased was proved the Seventh day of January 1760 before the Reverend Thomas Lamprey Clerk, Surrogate to the Worshipfull Francis Simpson, Doctor of Laws, Official General to the Reverend the Archdeacon of Canterbury, lawfully constituted by the Oath of Margaret Harvey Sole Executrix named in the said Will being first sworn duly to perform the same &c.
Notes:
The burial register for SS Peter & Paul, Eythorne reads: 1759 December 10 John Harvey Esqr. of Tilmanstone.
See: https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/research/monumental-inscriptions/eythorne for details of the memorial inscriptions of the Harvey family.
John Harvey, Bachelor of Eythorne married Margaret Maude, Spinster of Boughton Aluph, at Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent on 4th July
1726 by Licence.
Sons Richard Harvey (8 May 1729) and Toke Harvey (22 Apr 1730) were baptised at Eythorne
daughters Mary (4 Apr 1736) and Catherine (27 Aug 1738) were both baptised at Tilmanstone
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 19 Nov 2022
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