Will of Richard Long

of Deal, Kent

First I Give and Devise All and singular my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever situate lying and being in the said Town and Borough of Deal or elsewhere in the said County of Kent unto my loving Wife Hester Long her Heirs and Assigns for ever

Also I Give and Bequeath All and singular my Leasehold Tenements Houses Outhouses Edifices Buildings Land and Ground with their and every of their Appurtenances Situate lying and being in Deal aforesaid or elsewhere And all the Estate Right Title Interest and Term and Terms of Years which I now have or shall or may have in any Leasehold Estate at the time of my Decease with the Leases thereof which shalbe then subsisting
And also all and singular my Goods Chattels Effects Debts due and owing to me Money Securities for Money and all other my personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever (after Payment of all my just Debts & Funeral Expences) Unto my said loving Wife Hester Long her Executors Administrators and Assigns

And I make constitute and appoint my said Wife Hester Long full and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
And Lastly I revoke all former Wills by me made

In Witness whereof I the said Richard Long have to this my last Will and Testament Set my hand and seal the Twenty Fifth day of November in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of King George the third over Great Britain &c And in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy two
Richard Long

Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said Richard Long 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 (the name Hester being first wrote three times on an Erasure in the above Will).
Ann Mackney, John Cannon junr., Jno Middleton

The before Registered Will of Richard Long deceased was proved the 8th day of May 1777 before the Revd. George Hearne, Clerk, Surrogate to the Worshipful Andrew Coltee Duracel, Doctor of Laws, Commissary General of the City and Diocese of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of Hester Long Widow the Executor named in the said Will he [she!] being first Sworn well and truly to perform the same, etc.

Note: Richard Long was buried at St. Leonard’s, Deal, Kent on 29th April 1777.

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 14th April 2022

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