Anna Alchin of Plaxtol 1847

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Anna Alchin of Plaxtol in the County of Kent spinster made published and declared this twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven First I constitute and appoint my brother in law John Rabson and my sister Rebecca his wife my brother in law Jennings Gibbs and my sister Sarah his wife Executors and trustees of this my Will Also I give and devise all my real estate (except estates vested in me as a Trustee or Mortgagee) and I give and bequeath all my personal estate to my said Executors and Trustees their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively upon trust to sell my real estate together or in parcels by public auction or private contract and to convert into money and get in my said personal estate and out of the produce of such sale of my said real estate and of such conversion and getting in of my said personal estate to pay in the first place my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses and then to pay to Edward Godfrey my nephew and Rebecca Alchin the natural daughter of my sister Mary Twist one hundred pounds sterling apiece such sum of one hundred pounds to each of them the said Edward Godfrey and Rebecca Alchin respectively at such time or times and in such proportion as the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will (‘trustees etc’) may think proper and then upon trust as to one fourth part of the residue of the said prioncipal trust money to pay the same to my sister the said Rebecca Rabson her executors admons and assigns to and for her and their own use absolutely (‘her executors etc’) and one other fourth part to Mary the wife of William Twist her executors etc the same to the said Sarah the wife of the said Jennings Gibbs her executors etc and as to the other or remaining fourth part thereof upon trust to invest the same in the names or name of the trustees etc in or upon any of the prime (?) stocks funds or securities of the United Kingdom or any such securities in England or Wales with liberty for the said trustees or trustee to vary and transpose the investments from time to time for any other investment of the description aforesaid and upon trust that the trustees etc shall pay the said dividend interest and proceeds of the said trust money as and when then same shall become due and payable unto or for the benefit of my sister Hester Godfrey for and during the term of her natural life and it is my will and desire that the said trustees etc shall pay the said dividends and proceeds into the proper hands of the said Hester Godfrey …. And after the decease of the said Hester Godfrey upon trust to pay the said principal trust money or such part of the same as shall remain unpaid or unappiled to or for the benefit of the said Hester Godfrey at the time of her death to such child or children of the said Hester Godfrey then living and such issue then living and such issue then living of any child or children of the said Hester Godfrey ….as shall have attained the age of twenty one years or be or have been married or shall attain that age or marry as tenants in common in a …. Distribution according to the stocks and not to the number of individual objects ….

… the Testatrix have to this my last Will and Testament contained in four sheets of paper set my hand and affixed my seal …. The date and year above written Anna Alchin signed sealed published and declared by the said Anna Alchin the Testatrix on and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names  as witnesses thereof Silas Norton West Malling Kent Benjamin George his clerk

Proved at London with a codicil (changing the method of payment of 100 pounds to Rebecca Alchin) the 24^th August 1847 before the worshipful John Elliot Paisley Robertson Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of John Rabson Rebecca Rabson wife of the said John Rabson the sister Jennings Gibbs and Sarah Gibbs wife of the said Jennings Gibbs the sister also the Executors to whom admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer

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