Savage Will 1785

Will of William Savage

of Chatham, Kent

Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury TNA Ref.: PROB 11/1129/116
Submitted by Shelagh Mason

In the Name of God Amen
I William Savage of Chatham in the County of Kent Carver being very sick and weak in Body but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding, thanks be to Almighty God for the same, do make and ordain publish and declare this to be my last will and Testament in Writing in manner and form following (that is to say)
First and principally I recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hoping to be Saved by and through the only Merits of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be decently interred by and at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named And as to such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with after payment of all my just debts and Funeral Expences I dispose of the same as follows

I give devise and bequeath unto my dear and loving Wife Sarah Savage the Sum of Fifteen pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to buy her Mourning

Item I give devise and bequeath unto my loving daughter Mary Lloyd all that my now dwelling House with the Appurtenances and all my household Furniture thereunto belonging commonly called and known by the name of the Ivy House lying and being in the parish of Saint Margaret within the City of Rochester in the County of Kent aforesaid To have and to hold to my said loving Daughter Mary Lloyd her heirs Executors administrators and assigns for ever

Also I give devise and bequeath unto my said loving Wife Sarah Savage all that my other Messuage or Tenement next adjoining to the aforesaid Ivy House now in the Tenure and occupacon of Francis Galloway with all its Appurtenances thereunto belonging situate on the bank in the Parish of Saint Margaret within the City of Rochester in the County aforesaid To have and to hold the same and every part thereof unto my said loving wife for and during the term of her natural life
and from and immediately after the decease of my said Wife I give devise and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my dear and loving daughter Elizabeth Savage her heirs Executors administrators and assigns for ever

Also I give devise and bequeath unto my dear and loving daughter Elizabeth Savage the one third part of the profits of my Carving Trade of all the Contract of the two Navy Yards untill she arrives to the age of twenty one years of Chatham and Sheerness

Also I give devise and bequeath unto my dear and loving Son Thomas Savage all and ever part of my Implements and stock in the Carving Trade

Also I give devise and bequeath unto my loving Daughter Mary Lloyd all the Rest, Residue and Remainder of my Estate both real and personal apparel Bills Bonds and all Book debts that may be due to me at the time of my decease after payment of all my Just debts and Funeral Expences out of the same

And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my Trusty good Friends William Lloyd my Son in Law the Husband of my Daughter Mary Lloyd aforesaid and Richard Woodrifte of the City of Rochester aforesaid Shipwright Executors of this my last Will and Testament
likewise I constitute and appoint my Son in Law William Lloyd and my daughter Mary his Wife joint Guardians to the care of my aforesaid daughter Elizabeth’s Education and property arising from the carving Contract

And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannull all and every other or former Testaments Wills Legacies bequests and Executors by my in any wise before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament

In Witness whereof I the said William Savage have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty four
William Savage

Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by the said William Savage the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other and at his request have hereunto set our names as Witnesses hereunto
William Cackett - Jno. Forwood - King Williams

This Will was proved at London the twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty five before the Worshipful George Harris Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oath of William Lloyd one of the Executors named in the said Will to whom administration was granted of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased having been first Sworn duly to administer, power reserved of making the like grant to Richard Woodrift? the other Executor named in the said Will when he shall apply for the same

Notes:
Daughter Mary Savage married William Lloyd by Licence on 20th August 1783 at St. Margaret, Rochester.
William Savage, Ba., married Sarah Allen, Sp., both of St. Paul, Deptford, on 24th July 1742. This is one of London’s Clandestine Marriages. None of their children were christened in Chatham or Rochester.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 5th April 2020. All rights waived for personal use – BUT please quote source and reference.

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