In the Name of God Amen, I Thomas Edgar, Mariner of the Sig''l Station Dungeoness in the County of Kent, Widower, being in Bodily Health and of sound and disposing Mind and Memory. and considering the Perils and Dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this transitory Life, do for avoiding Controversies after my Decease, make, publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in Manner following, that is to say –
First, I recommend, my Soul to God that gave it and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God to order. And as for and concerning all my worldly Estate, I give, bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth, that is to say –
I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughters in Law, Mrs Ann Foley and Lydia Bean Spinster all Wages, Sum and Sums of Money, Lands, Tenements, Goods, Chattels and Estate whatsoever as shall be any ways due, owing or belonging unto me at the time of my Decease. I do give, devise and bequeath the same unto my beloved Daughters in Law Mrs Ann Foley and Lydia Bean to be equally divided between them after all my Funeral Expences is paid Head Stone and Foot etc.
And I do hereby nominate and appoint Mrs Ann Foley and Lydia Bean to be my Executrix of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former and other Wills, Testaments and Deeds of Gifts by me at ant time heretofore made. And I do ordain and ratify these presents to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testimony. In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set my Hand and Seal the seventh day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and in the thirty ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the third over Great Britain etc. Thomas Edgar
Signed, sealed, published and declared in the presence of John Langley
Stephen Kingsley.
This Will was proved at London on the twelfth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, before the Worshipful Samuel Pearce Parson, Doctor of Laws Surrogate of the Right Honourable Sir William Wynne Knight, also Doctor of Laws, Master Keeper of Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the oaths of Ann Foley (wife of Jesse Foley) and Lydia Bean Spinster the Executrixes named in the said Will, to whom Administration of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the deceased was granted, they having been first sworn duly to Administer.
Cliff Thornton, August 2003