Will of Richard Savage

of Boughton Monchelsea, Kent

I Give and Devise All and Singular the Manors Messuages Lands Hereditts. [Hereditaments] and Premisses with the Appurts. [Appurtenances] which I shall be possessed of interested in or Entitled unto at my Decease either in Possession Reversion Remainder or Expectancy unto my Dear Wife Margaret During her Life without Impeachment of Waste other than wilful Waste in pulling down or destroying the Buildings or permitting them to fall down without rebuilding the same and she keeping the same in Good and tenantable Repair

And from and after her Decease I Give and Devise all such part thereof which is not in Settlement upon our Marriage unto and among all and every my Child and Children by her the said Margaret which shall be living or with which she shall be Entitled at my Decease equally if more than one and if but one to such only Child and to the Heirs of his her or their Body or Bodys lawfully Issuing And in default of such Issue I Give and Devise All and Singular the said Manors Messuages Lands Hereditts. and Premisses as well those secured as not with the Rights Members and Appurts. thereunto belonging unto my Nieces Catherine and Margaret Hubble the Daughters of my Sister Anne and unto my Niece Elizabeth Ward the daughter of my late Sister Catherine deceased equally to be divided between them and to be take(n) and hold as Tenants in Common and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever

Also I Give and bequeath unto her my said Wife Margaret All and Singular the Ready Money and Bank Notes in my House and Arrears of Rent due at my Decease my Household Furniture Pictures Plate Linnen Organ Library of Books Chariot Hay Corn Cattle Stock and Implements of Husbandry in and about my Mansion House and Lands in my own Occupation as her absolute property and not to be Subject or liable to my Debts or Funeral Expenses

And after All and Singular my Debts and Funeral Expenses are satisfied and paid I Give and bequeath all the rest and residue of my Chattells Effects and Personal Estate of what nature or kind soever or wheresoever unto her my said Wife Margaret

And if it shall happen that the residue of my Effects and Personal Estate shall be Insufficient to pay and Satisfy my Funeral Expenses and all the Just Debts which I shall owe at my Decease Then it is my Will and I hereby Order and Direct that she my said Wife Margaret shall and do with all Convenient Speed make Good such Deficiency by the Sale of timber upon all or any part of my said Lands or by Sale or Mortgage of all or such part of my said Real Estate as shall be necessary and with the money thereby ensuing shall pay and Discharge all or Such part of my Funeral Expenses and Debts as the said Residue of my Effects and Personal Estate will not Extend to pay

And further it is my Will that she my said Wife Margaret During her life and after her Decease my Child or Children by her or his her or their Guardian or Guardians during their Minority shall and may whilst in her his or their Actual Possession by any writing or writings Indented to be by her or them Signed Sealed and duly Executed in the presence of two or more Credible Witnesses Demise Lease and to Farm Lett all or any part of my said messuages Lands and Premisses to any person or persons for any term or Number of Years not Exceeding fourteen years to comence in possession Reserving upon every such Lease or Leases respectively the best yearly Rent that can (black splodge) God for the premisses so demised without taking any Fine or other thing to abate the Rent and so as such Lease or Leases be not made dispunishable of or for Waste and so as in every such Lease or Leases there be Contained a Clause of Recovery for non payment of the Rent or Rents thereby reserved and other Common and usual Covenants and Reservations And so as the person or persons to whom such Lease or Leases shall be made do Seal and Deliver a Counterpart or Counterparts thereof

I Constitute and appoint her my said Wife Margaret to be Sole Executrix of this my Will and hereby revoking all former Wills by me made do Declare this only to be and Contain my last Will and Testament

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Eighteenth Day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty nine
Richard Savage

Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said Richard Savage as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in presence at his request and in the presence of each other have Subscribed our names as Witnesses hereto
Rd. Rich, Willm. Sedgwick, Tho. Willard

This Will was proved at London the Sixth day of February in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy two before the Worshipful Thomas Bover Doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the Right Worshipful George Hay also Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully Constituted by the Oath of Margaret Savage Widow the Relict of the Deceased and Sole Executrix named in the said Will to whom Administration was Granted of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased She having been first Sworn Duly to Administer. Exd.

Note in the margin:
On the 29th day of July 1783 Admon. with the Will annexed of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of Richard Savage late of Boughton Mounchelsea in the County of Kent Esquire deceased left unadministered by (crossed out) Margaret Savage Widow decd? whilst living the ...... named in the said Will now also deceased was granted to Thomas Charlton the sole Executor of the Will of the said Margaret Savage Widow deceased he having been first sworn duly to administer.

Notes:
Richard Savage was the son of John and Elizabeth Savage of Boughton Monchelsea, christened there on 9th January 1719/20.
Richard Savage was buried on 25th January 1772 at SS Peter & Augustine, Boughton Monchelsea.
Richard Savage married Margaret Gulston on 1st December 1743 at St. Giles, Wyddial, Hertfordshire.
They had two known daughters: 31 Oct 1746 Barbara; 21 Jan 1749 Margaret – both at All Saints, West Farleigh.
Wife Margaret Savage died and was buried on 19th December 1780 at Boughton Monchelsea.
See also: PROB 11/1072/248 Will of Margaret Savage, Widow of Boughton Monchelsea, dated 11th February 1780 with a Codicil dated 11th February 1780 and Proved 16th December 1780.
See also: Will of Richard’s Mother: PROB 11/1096/109 Will of Elizabeth Savage, Widow of Maidstone, dated 31st July 1781 and Proved 10th October 1782
His sister Catherine married Ralph Ward at Maidstone 31 Mar 1755

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