Will of William Ladd

of Chatham, Kent

I give devise and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Joseph Ladd, my Son in Law Henry William Bush of Chatham aforesaid Mariner and my friend Thomas Blackman of ..... in the said County Victualler all those my two freehold Tenements or dwelling houses with the pieces or parcels of land thereunto belonging containing by estimation three acres be the same more or less with the appurtenances situate lying and being at Chatham Hill aforesaid and now in the occupation of myself and Russell Blackman
and also all those my four freehold tenements of dwelling houses situate at Slykate’s Hill in the said Parish of Chatham and now or late in the tenures or occupations of William Ladbury and others
And also all those my six freehold messuages or Cottages and hereditaments situate at Chatham Hill aforesaid and now or late in the several occupations of John Ladbury Streaks? and others

And also all my ready money and security for money debts due to me my live and dead stock household goods and furniture and all the Rest Residue and Remainder of my real and personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever the same may be or consist of to hold the same and every part thereof unto them the said Thomas Joseph Ladd, Henry William Bush and Thomas Blackman their heirs executors and administrators respectively according to the nature and tenure of the said Estates property and Effects respectively

Upon trust to collect and get in such debt or debts as may at the time of my decease be due or owing to me and as soon as conveniently may be to make sale and dispose of the said freehold estates and hereditaments And also my said personal Estate and Effects either by Public Auction or Private Contract or partly by Public Auction and partly by Private Sale and in such lot or lots or otherwise and under and subject to such terms conditions and stipulations as they my said Trustees or the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will shall think fit to any person of persons who shall be willing to become the purchaser or purchasers thereof or of any part thereof for the best price or prices and most money that can be reasonably had and gotten for the same respectively

And the better to facilitate and complete such sale or sales of the said freehold hereditaments and Premises I do hereby declare that it shall be lawful for them my said Trustees of the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will to make and execute all such deeds and Instruments as may be needful or necessary for that purpose

And I do hereby declare that the receipt and receipts of my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will (for such) purchase money shall be a good and sufficient discharge or good and sufficient discharges to the purchaser or purchasers of the said estates and other property or any part of parts thereof for so much money as in any such receipt or receipts shall be expressed or acknowledged to be or to have been received and that from and after the signing or giving such receipt or receipts such purchaser or purchasers and his her or their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall not be obliged to see to the application thereof or be responsible or accountable for the misapplication or nonapplication of the said purchase monies or any part thereof

And I do hereby declare and direct that they Trustees or the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will shall stand and be possessed of the monies respectively arising as aforesaid Upon trust in the first place to pay and satisfy all my just debts funeral and Testamentary charges and expences and from and after payment thereof then upon trust as to the residue of the said monies when and as the same shall respectively amount to a proper and competent sum to pay and divide the same equally unto between and amongst my four children following (that is to say)
Frances the wife of the said Henry William Bush; Mary the wife of Russell Blackman; Eliza the wife of John Ladbury and the said Thomas Joseph Ladd
or such of them as shall be living at the time of my decease and the lawful issue of such of them as shall be then dead lawfully leaving issue (such issue taking respectively amongst themselves a parents share only) and the share of such issue of any of my said four children to be vested in the names or name of my said Trustees or the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will in the public stocks or funds of England until such issue shall respectively attain full age and then to be payable to them respectively

And the Interest of the respective shares of such issue respectively during minority to be applicable for their maintenance and support and for that purpose I do hereby authorise ad empower my said Trustees or the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will from time to time to pay the whole or any part of the Interest of such Issue respectively during minority unto the respective surviving parent or parents of such Issue respectively or other the natural Guardian of such Issue according to their discretion

And the receipt or receipts of such parent or parents or other Guardian shall be at all times a sufficient discharge for the same and the Trustees or the Trustee for the time being of this my Will shall not be answerable or accountable for the application or misapplication thereof Provided always and I do hereby declare and direct that on the death of any Trustee or Trustees of this my will or of any Executor or Trustees to be appointed pursuant to the provision or in case any one of them shall desire to decline or be discharged from the trusts thereof or shall be incapable or unfit to act therein or shall wish to associate any other person or persons therein before the completion of the same it may and shall be lawful for the surviving or continuing Trustees or Trustee his her or their executors or administrators or if there shall be no continuing trustee then for the Trustees or Trustee declining to act to nominate new Trustees or a new Trustee in the room of those so dead or declining or refusing to act or in addition thereof as the case may be

And thereupon the trust estate stocks and premises then remaining undisposed of pursuant to the provisions of this my will shall be conveyed transferred and assigned so and in such manner as the surviving or continuing Trustee or Trustees and such new Trustees (as the case shall be) shall require and do as the shall become and stand seized and possessed thereof unto them their heirs executors and administrators Upon the Trusts of this my will or such of them as shall be then subsisting and capable of taking Effect and every such new Trustee shall have and may exercise the like privileges powers and authorities in all respects as if he has been originally appointed a trustee of and by this my Will

And I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my Son the said Son Thomas Joseph Ladd, my Son in Law Henry William Bush and my friend Thomas Blackman Executors of this my Will and do bequeath unto each of them the sum of ten pounds as an acknowledgement for the trouble which they may have in the Execution of the Trusts hereby in them reposed

And I do hereby declare that they or the Trustees for the time being of this my Will shall not be answerable the one for the other or others of them and that they their heirs Executors or Administrators shall not be charged with or accountable for any more of the said trust monies than they shall respectively actually receive nor with or for any loss which may happen of or in the same or any part thereof without their own respective wilful neglect or default

And I further declare that it shall and may be lawful for them my said Trustees and Executors and the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this my Will and their respective Executors and Administrators to deduct and reimburse themselves out of the monies which shall come to their hands by virtue hereof all costs and charges and expences which they or either of them shall pay expend or be put unto in or about the Execution of this my Will and the Trusts thereof or any suit or proceeding act matter or thing relating thereto

and hereby revoking and making void all former and other Will and Wills by me at any time heretofore made I do declare this only to be and contain my last Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I the said William Ladd the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament contained in four sheets of paper written on one side only to each sheet thereof set my hand and to the last of them affixed my seal this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two
W. Ladd

Signed sealed published and declared by the said William Ladd the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
H. Wickham Solr. Strood - J.R.J. Taylor Clerk to Mr. Wickham

Proved at London 23rd September 1842 before the Worshipful John Danbury Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of Thomas Joseph Ladd the Son Henry William Bush and Thomas Blackman the Exors. [Executors] to whom Admon. was granted having been first sworn duly to administer.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 3rd July 2020.

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