Will of Thomas Stroud

of Ramsgate, Kent

First I give & devise all my Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Heredit[ament]s & Real Estate whatsoever whether in possession reversion or remainder unto my loving Wife Catherine Stroud & to her Heirs and Assigns for ever

Also I give & bequeath all my Household Goods, Household Furniture, Plate, Linen, China, Sum & Sums of Money & all other my Personal Estate whatsoever belonging to me at my decease (after all my just Debts, Funeral Expences & the Charge of Proving this m Will are first thereout paid & discharged) unto my said Wife Catherine Stroud and her Ex[ecut]ors & Assigns

And lastly I do appoint my said Wife Catherine Stroud sole Executrix of this my Will, hereby revoking all former Wills by me made

In Witness whereof I the said Thomas Stroud the Testator have to this my Will (in one sheet of Paper contained) set my hand & Seal the seventh day of December in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred & Ninety one & in the thirty second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith & so forth
Thomas Stroud

Signed, Sealed, Published & declared by the said Thomas Stroud the Testator for & as his last Will & Testament in the Presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto in the Presence of the said Testator
Eliz'th Sampson, Matilda Sampson, Fra. Small

Proved at London 10th January 1814 before the Judge by the Oath of Catherine Stroud Widow the Relict & sole Executrix to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted, she being sworn (by Com[missi]on) duly to Administer. Ex'd.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 28th August 2021

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