In the Name of God Amen, I Alexr. Macintosh, Mariner on board his Majesty’s Ship Resolution now lying at Deptford in the County of Kent, being of sound and disposing Mind and Memory, do hereby make this my last Will and Testament.
First, and Principally I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping for remission of all my Sins through the Merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and Redeemer, and my Body to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God,
And as for such worldly Estate and Effects which I shall be possessed of or intitled unto at the time of my decease, I give and bequeath the same as followeth, that is to say unto my beloved Friend Duncan McAlpin at Deptford in the County of Kent, Cooper (?) all Estate, Real and personal and every thing I may die possessed of or any ways intitled to by Reversion or otherwise.
And I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my Friend Duncan McAlpin aforesaid Executors of this my last Will and Testament. And I do give and bequeath unto my said Executors all the Rest and Residue of my Estate whatsoever both Real and Personal, hereby revoking and making void all other and former Wills by me heretofore made and do declare this to be my last Will and Testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this sixth day of May and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and in the seventeenth 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 Alexander McIntosh.
Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses in the presence of the said Testator Andrew Murhead Joseph Phillips.
Cliff Thornton, July 2003