Item I give devise and bequeath unto my son John Sills All that my messuage or tenement backside
garden and hereditaments whatsoever thereunto belonging Scituate lyeing & being in the Towne and
Liberty of Faversham afores�d in a street there called Tannery Street and now in my own Occupation To
have and to hold the same and every part thereof unto my said son John Sills and his assignes for and
dureing the terme of his naturall Life
And from and after his decease I give devise and bequeath the said messuage or Tenement backside
garden and appurtenances unto my Grandaughter Elizabeth Browne and to her heires and assignes forever.
Item Whereas I have now a mortgage from John Claggett of Badlesmere in the s�d county Carpenter of
and upon a certain messuage or Tenem�t Barne Stable garden orchard and two peeces of Land
containing by Estimation six acres (more or less) Scituate and being in Baddlesmere afors�d & now in the
occupation of the said John Claggett or his assignes for a long terme of yeares yet to come Redeemable
by payment of the sume of One hundred pounds and Interest (as by the Deed of mortgage relation being thereto had may appeare)
Now I doe hereby give fifty pounds part of the said sume of One hundred pounds unto my Daughter
Mary Browne wife of George Browne of Faversham afores�d Coachman
And the Interest of the other Remaining Fifty pounds I give and bequeath to my s�d son John Sills for his
life to be paid to him by my Executor by weekly payments once in every week weekly as the same shall
amount by just and Equall proportion
And after his decease I also give and bequeath the said remaining fifty pounds unto my s�d daughter Mary Browne
All the rest of my Effects and personall estate I give and bequeath unto my son in Law the s�d George Browne
And I doe hereby make nominate & appoint him the sd George Browne Sole Executor of this my last will
and Testament hereby makeing void all former Wills
In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this Nineteenth Day of November Anno Dm
1719 and in the sixth yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King George over Great Britain &c.
William Sills his marke
Signed sealed published and declared by the sd Testator for his last will and Testament in the p�sence of
us who in his p�sence Subscribed our names as Witnesses hereunto
Peter Remy � John Biggs � Walter Jones
Probate 28 Nov 1719
Notes:
William Sills was the son of Constantine & Rabidge, baptized at Badlesmere 8 Oct 1648
William Sills married Elizabeth Pickerel at Faversham 16 Jul 1682
Mary dau of William & Elizab Sills was baptised 6 Jun 1686
John son of Wm & Eliz Sills bapt 28 Jun 1693
Elizabeth wife of William Sills was buried 17 May 1710
George Brown & Mary Sills both of Faversham married 8 Apr 1711
William Sills was buried 22 Nov 1719
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