Hodsoll Will 1684

Extract of the Will of Robert Hodsoll

of Sittingbourne, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury PRC 17/76/123, probate 10 Dec 1684
Will of Robert Hodsoll of Sittingbourne, gentleman, dated 3 Nov 1684

to be buried in Badford Chancell in Sittingbourne Church [buried 17 Nov 1684, his wife Mercy was buried in 1680]
property at Sittingbourne & Milton purchased from Robert Downe(s)
wife Ellen [Robert Hodsoll of Sittingbourne & Eleanor Hodsoll of Kingsdown married at Strood 3 Jun 1681. Ellen was buried 10 Jun 1698.]

Jemerya Merry of London, Chirurgeon
grandson Robert Hodsoll <21
property with malthouse where I dwell purchased from Mr. Thomas Barton
grandson Jeremy Hodsoll <21
property in Murston occupied by said Robert Hodsoll & ___ Curle
property called the Bull in Newington occupied by John Stone
property in Sittingbourne purchased from the heirs of Benjamin Brockwell

daughter in law Elizabeth Hodsoll, widow (the mother of said Jeremy)
granddaughters Mercy Hodsoll <21 & Ellen Hodsoll [Ellen dau of Jeremy & Elizabeth was bapt 1676]
Kings Head in Sittingbourne occupied by John Willmott
grandson Robert Elvy <21
daughter Ellen now wife of Edward Marshall & mother of said Robert Elvy
grandchildren Thomas Elvy, Jeremy Elvy & Mercy Elvy
Badford Farm leased from John Gerrard Esq.
Edmund Elvy of Norton, yeoman

brother Edmund Hodsoll
friends Mr. George Jones & Peter Theobald
John Bennett & William Hoysted
friends Mr. Samuel Symmonds, Rector of Murston, Mr. Thomas Bayly of Sittingbourne & Mr. William Poynett of Rodmersham - executors
tenants Thomas Dray in Sittingbourne & Mallyon in Milton

Witnesses Thomas Cart - Peter Theobald - William Baker.


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