| 0001: | In the Name of God Amen
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| 0002: | I Thomas Silver of the Parish of Henley upon Thames in
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| 0003: | the County of Oxon Carpenter being of sound and disposing
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| 0004: | Mind and Memory do hereby make this my last Will and
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| 0005: | Testament First and principally I commend my Soul into the
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| 0006: | Hands of Almighty God hoping for Remission of all my Sins
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| 0007: | through the Merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and
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| 0008: | Redeemer and my Body to the Earth or Sea as it shall please
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| 0009: | God and as for such Worldly Estate and Effects which I shall
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| 0010: | be possessed of or intituled unto at the time of my decease I
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| 0011: | give and bequeath the same as followeth that is to say
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| 0012: | unto my loving brother William Silver of the Parish of St
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| 0013: | Margarets Westminster in the County of Middlesex Tallow
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| 0014: | Chandler I give bequeath and devise and to his Heirs
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| 0015: | Executors Administrators and Assigns all my Real and
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| 0016: | Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever In Trust for
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| 0017: | my two Children Elizabeth and Ann Silver and to their Heirs
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| 0018: | and Assigns equally to be divided between them Share and
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| 0019: | Share alike And I do hereby nominate constitute and
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| 0020: | appoint the said William Silver Executor of this my last
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| 0021: | Will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all
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| 0022: | other and former Wills by me heretofore made and do
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| 0023: | declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness
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| 0024: | whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this
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| 0025: | seventeenth day of December in the Year of our Lord one
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| 0026: | thousand seven hundred and forty three and in the seventeenth
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| 0027: | Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second
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| 0028: | by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
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| 0029: | King Defender of the Faith
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| 0030: |
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| 0031: | Thomas Silver
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| 0032: | Signed Sealed
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| 0033: | Published and Declared by the said Thomas Silver the
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| 0034: | Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence
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| 0035: | of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses
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| 0036: | in the presence of the said Testator
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| 0037: |
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| 0038: | Jno Ayres
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| 0039: | G Davies
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| 0040: | Tho[ma]s Hackman |