Also I Give and Devise unto my Loving Brother Zebulon Mason and his assigns for and during the term of his Natural Life All that my Messuage or Tenement wherein I now dwell together with the Shop Garden and all the appurtenances to the said Messuage or Tenement belonging or appertaining Situate lying and being in the aforesaid Parish of Biddenden
and from and after the decease of my said Brother Zebulon Mason I Give and Devise the said Messuage or Tenement with the Shop Garden and all the appurtenances belonging unto my Nephew Edward Mason (one of the Sons of my Brother Edward Mason) and to is Heirs and assigns for ever
Also I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said Brother Zebulon Mason Sole Executor of this my Last Will and testament
And I give and Bequeath unto my said Executor all my household goods and Implements of household stuff and all other my Goods and Chattels
Whatsoever he paying my Debts Funeral Expences and the charge of proving this my last Will
And in consideration that I have given unto my said Brother Zebulon my Messuage with the Shop Garden and Appurtenances for his Life I do hereby direct and strictly Charge and require my said Brother Zebulon and provide for my said Nephew Edward Mason during his two years he hath to serve his Apprenticeship with Richard Hoyman [or Foyman] all such Cloathes both Linnen and Woollen as shall be necessary for him to have and at the End of his apprenticeship to cloath him in a decent maner
And Lastly I do hereby revoke and make void all former Wills by me made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I the said Dinah Mason have hereunto sett my Hand and Seal the day and year first above written
Dinah Mason
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said Dinah Mason as her last Will and testament in the
presence of us who have hereunto in her presence Subscribed our Names as Witnesses
Richd. Willard, James (space) Senior; Jon. Pomfrett Junr.
Admon. [Administration] With the Before Registered Will of Dinah Mason annexed, was on the fifteenth day of October 1768 before the Reverend John Gostling Arch Surrogate to the Worshipful Francis Simpson, Doctor of Law, Official General to the Reverend the Archdeacon of Canterbury, lawfully constituted granted to Edward Mason Nephew of the dec[ease]d and sole Executor of the Will of Zebulon Mason who died without proving this Will, he being first Sworn duly to Administer.
Notes:
Dinah Mason was buried at All Saints, Biddenden, Kent, on 29th May 1739.
She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Mason, baptised at Biddenden on 15th October 1693.
See Will of her father John Mason the Elder of Biddenden: PRC 17/87/38j, made & proved in 1729;
and brother Zebulon Mason (of Biddenden): PRC 17/98/88b, made 1767 & Proved 1768.
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 3rd June 2022
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