Will of Susanna Hobbs

of Dover, Kent

I doe devise and give all my messuages houses and ground with the Appurten[an]ces scituate in Dover aforesaid or elsewhere and alsoe, all my goods ch[att]ells as well reale as p[er]sonall & estate whatsoever and wheresoever to
my four Children Hosea, Susanna the wife of Thomas Tavener, Thomas and Benjamin Hobbs and to my grandsonn John Wicks & to their Heires Executers and Administrators equally to be divided betwixt them,

save only I doe give to my grandson Richard Hobbs five pounds to be paid to him out of the whole of my estate both reale and personall & for which I doe bind the same towards the putting him out an Apprentice to a fitting trade, when he shall be of sufficient Age, & in the meane time I doe order the same shall be paid by my Executors to my sister Mary Downe wid(ow) for the use of my said Grandson Richard in a yeare after my death and doe order and desire her to make the best Improvements thereof by puting the same out to Interest for him

Alsoe I doe appoint my said Sister Mary Downe Trustee & Curatrix for my said grandson John Wicks, for what is by this my will given to him, and she to receive his parte of the rents & of my psonall estate & make the best Improvement thereof for him, till he comes to be of a fitt Age to be placed out an Apprentice or prfored [preferred] to a way of liveing in the world, and then to be paid for his use and benefitt, and note before unless in case of great necessity appearing to my said Sister Mary Downe and in case he shall happen to dye before, what I have give to him shall become due to be paid to him or his use, as aforesaid then I doe bequeath all that parte of my estate hereby given to him to my said grandson Richard Hobbs in such manner as I have given the same to the said John Wicks and to be soe paid to him, or for his use

Alsoe I doe appoint that four pounds more out of the whole estate shall be paid to my said Sister Mary Downe in a yeare after my decease for the use & benefitt of my said grandsonn John Wicks to be paid to him or (for?) his use, at such time and in such manner as the rest of my estate given him is to be, which I soe give to him for and in lieu of the like sume, which I looks upon as due to him from me as a residue of Legacy given to his Mother by her Father

And for as much as I have expended much more moneys in Educateing or and upon my sonn Thomas, then the twenty pounds given him by his Fathers Will I doe Will & order that he shall release & acquit my Executors and estate thereof, or otherwise forfeit & loose all benefitt by this my will,

And that my sonn Benjamin shall allowe & abate five pounds only out of the twenty pounds given him by his Fathers Will, for what I have laid put & am to pay for him, & shall have all the rest thereof paid to him as a debt out of my whole estate,

alsoe notwithstanding what is herein before contained, I doe hereby devise & give to my Sonn Benjamin Hobbs and to my said Sister Mary Downe full power & authority to grant bargaine & sell the house with the Appurtences in Dover near the market place wherein I dwell & all my estate & inheritance therein for the most that can be got for the same, if they shall think fitt or occasion require it, for the better p’formance of this my will & benefitt of my severall legatees, to whome as before I have given my estate,

Alsoe I give to the five Children of my daughter Susanna each of them & to my grandson Edward Hobbs a silver spoone a peice

And I doe make & ordaine my said sonn Benjamin Hobbs & my daughter Susanna Tavernor Executors of this my last Will & Testament,
and my Brother Mr. John Teddiman of Dover & my said Sister Mary Downe Overseers of this my will desireing them to see the same as much as they cann fully p’formed according to the true intent & meaneing thereof

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seale this second day of October in the yeare of our Lord Christ One Thousand seven hundred & & two
Susanna Hobbs
Signed, sealed & published by the said Susanna Hobbs as her last Will & Testament in the prsence of
Richard Cannon; Judith Heggett her marke; Phi: Yorke

Probatum fuit: 4th March 1702/03

The Inventory & Appraism[en]t of all & singuler the Goods & Chattells of Susanna Hobbs late of Dover widdow decea[se]d made & taken the Second day of March Anno Dini 1702(/03) by John Johnson of Dover, Joyner and Cornelius Garretson of the same Joyner as followeth, vizt.

										£.	s.	d. 
Imprimis	The deceaseds wearing Apparrell					1	5	0
Item	in ready money								0	10	0

Item	one Tenemt. [Tenement] and ..rnighangs (?) helden of the 
habor of Dover engaged for 20l & appraised att 50l more
standing empty & cann of lerlerls (?)						50	0	0

Item	p[ar]cell of earthen ware valued at					0	9	0
Item 	an old bedsteddle & a Matt						0	4	0
	
	In the Wash house	
Item	One Copper & old brewing vessels					2	 10	0
Item	two small brasse kettles, 2 pott mettle (metal) Skilletts, and 
	two iron potts Small							0	12	0
Item	a Couch & table & a Chest, all old					0	5	0
Item	a frying pan, a dripping pan & a bed pan old with a small
	parsell of pewter							0	11	0
Item	two old tables & an old Safe Cubboard					0	6	0
Item	ten old Chaires great & small, fower old joynt stooles, a
	small paire of Grates & Fenders						0	14	0
Item	2 fire pans, 3 paire of Tongs, one Spudd?, 3 small Spitts,
	gridiron rearing & 2 rurner Irons					0	11	0
Item	three Candlesticks, 2 bras(s) Irons & two bras(s) Ladles, with 
	a pcell of earthen Ware							0	10	6
Item	an old paire of Bellows & Crickett, 2 old folding Boards, an
	old great Chest								0	15	00
End of Sheet One								59	02	06
Sheet Two
Item	a feather Bedd & bolster & a greene Rug old				3	2	0
Item	a paire of greene Sarge [serge] Curtaines & Valens			1	0	0
Item	an old bedsteddle & Curtaine Rodds					0	8	0
Item	a Chest of Drawers & two old tables					1	13	0
Item	fower leathr Chaires & two Stooles old & two paire of
	bellows & a looking Glasse						0	14	6
Item	a paire of Window Curtaines, a mantle Cloth, some glasses
	& Cupps earthen								0	6	6
Item 	another feather bed, one bolster, two pillows				2	10	0
Item	a small old Feather bed, three bollsters & three pillows all
	old, an old redd Rugg, an old Coverlett & five old Blanketts		2	0	6
Item	an old paire of Curtaines & Valence					0	10	0
Item	an old bedsteddle, three old Curtaines & valence with rodds
	& matt & an old Chest							0	12	0
Item	an old Chest & fower joyned old Stooles & a paire of Andirons		0	5	0

	In Linnen
Item	Sixteene paire of Sheetes most old & course				4	16	0
Item	a dozen of damaske Napkins & table Cloth				1	4	0
Item	a dozen & halfe of diaper Napkins & table Cloth				1	0	0
Item	a pcell of pillow Coates 12 in no. [number]				0	12	0
Item	a pcell of old course table Clothes, Napkins & towells, some worne out	1	0	0
End Sheet Two									21	13	6
Sheet Three						 
Item	a table Cloth & a dozen of Napkins old					0	5	0
Item	two old Cases for Bedds and one hundred old Sacks			1	6	0
Item 	forty three peeces of ordinary Garmts [Garments] out of
	fashion & eight paire of rurise? hose					3	10	0
Item	an outmeale Mill old							0	10	0
Item	further Countey boxes drawers scales & measures in the Shopp		1	0	0
	
		In the Cellar
Item	Six Small Caske, seaven Tubbs & an old warming pann			0	17	6
Item	Six old Silver Spoones abt. 1 ounce each				1	10	0
Item	in good Debts about							5	0	0
Item	in desperate Debts about						15	0	0
Item 	for Lumber & thinges unseene & forgotten				1	0	0
										29	18	6

The Sume total of this Appraismt. amounts to one hundred and Tenn pounds 
fourteene shillings & Six pence As by the p[ar]ticulers  thereof appeares	110	14	6

In Witnes whereof wee the said Appraisers have hereunto sett our hands
Benjamin Hobbs;   John Johnson;   Corlis [Cornelius] Garrison

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