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This is the last Will and Testament of me George Gigger of Wareham in the County of Dorset Grocer made and Published the Twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen as followeth Imprimis I do first of all hereby revoke annull and make void all Wills by me at any time or times heretofore made and do declare this to be my Last Will and Testament Item I give and devise all that my Messuage or FarmHouse outHouses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever with their and every of their appurtenances called by the name of lower Bestall Scituate lying and being within the parish of East Scoake in the said County of Dorsett now in my possession unto my two Nephews Joseph Gigger and John Gigger for and during the Term of their natural Lives joyntly and equally between them and after the deaths of them or either of them Then I give and devise the same Lands and Hereditaments with their appurtenances to the Heirs Males of the Bodies of them the said Joseph Gigger and John Gigger lawfully begotten and to be begotten and for want of such Issue Males of them the said Joseph Gigger and John Gigger as aforesaid Then to the Heirs Female of them the said Joseph Gigger and John Gigger lawfully begotten and to be begotten and for want of such Issue Female in them the said Joseph Gigger and John Gigger Then I give and devise the before mentioned Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances unto John Chapman the eldest son of my Kinsman Mr Walter Chapman and to his heirs for ever Item I give to the said Mr Walter Chapman my Garden in Mill Lane in Wareham aforesaid containing about half an acre for and during the Term of his natural Life and after his Decease to his son John Chapman during his natural Life and after the death of the said John Chapman to Walter Chapman second son of the said Mr Walter Chapman and his Heirs for ever Item I give my now dwelling House wherein I live with its appurtenances unto my now lowing Wife Margaret Gigger during the Term of her natural Life and after her Decease I give and devise the same to my two Kinsmen Joseph Gigger and John Gigger and the Heirs of their Bodies lawfully begotten and to be begotten and for want of such Issue to their right Heirs for ever Item all the rest and residue of my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditamts whatsoever with their and every of their appurtenances scituate lying and being in Wareham and Stoborrow or in the parishes of Wareham aforesaid I give unto my aforesaid two Kinsmen Joseph Gigger and John Gigger equally between them during their natural lives and after their deaths Then I give the said last mentioned Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the Heirs Males of the Bodies of them the said Joseph Gigger and John Gigger lawfully begotten and to be begotten and for want of such Issue males as aforesaid then to the Heirs Female of the Bodies of them the said Joseph Gigger and John Gigger lawfully begotten and to be begotten and for want of such Issue Females of them the said Joseph Gigger and John Gigger as aforesaid then I give and devise the said last mentioned Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to my Kinsman George Chaldecoff Tanner and his Heirs for ever Item I give unto my Kinsman George Gigger the eldest brother of them the said Joseph Gigger and John Gigger my antient Lands which descended to me from my Mother called by the name of Grange lying in the parish of Wimborne Minster in the said County of dorsett for during the Term of his natural Life and my Lands at Poole likewise with the yearly Rents and Profits thereof and after his decease then I give the said Lands at Grange and Poole aforesaid to my aforesaid Two Kinsmen Joseph and John Gigger and their Heirs for ever Item I further give and grant to my said Kinsman George Gigger an Annuity or Rent charge of Thirteen Pounds yearly during the Term of his natural Life to be paid weekly and every Week to him out of all my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments at Bestall and Wareham aforesaid and I hereby charge all my said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments at bestall and Wareham aforesaid with the true payment thereof Item I give unto my Kinsman Mr Walter Chapman as a token of my Kindness to him Twenty Pounds and to my Neice his Wife Margaret Chapman Twenty Pounds more to be paid them within a year after my Death and I further give to their Children John Walter Thomas and Mary Chapman Twenty Pounds a peice to be paid them severally at their ages of one and Twenty years and in the mean time it is my Will and meaning and I do hereby direct that my Executors herein after named shall yearly after my Decease pay them Interest for their respective sum and sums of money herein before mentioned till they respectively attain their ages of one and Twenty years Item I further give unto my said Kinsman Walter Chapman and Margarett his Wife to and for the use and benefitt of their Children Two Hundred Pounds due to me from and lent by me some time since to Mary Pittman Widdow and her son Joseph Pittman on a Mortgage of their Lands att Chaldon in the said County of Dorsett and the growing Interest thereof from my Death and I do hereby direct that my Executors hereinafter named do Transfer the said Mortgage to the said Walter Chapman by Deed in three Months time after my Death to the use abovementioned Item whereas I did some years since lend unto my brother Mr John Gigger of the town and County of Poole (who is since dead) One Hundred Pounds on a Mortgage of his House he lived in in Poole aforesaid I do hereby give the said Hundred Pounds so lent as aforesaid and what Interest shall happen to be for the same at my death to my said to Kinsmen Joseph and John Gigger equally betwixt them Item I give to my said Two Kinsmen Joseph and John Gigger my Leasehold Estate called Haymoore in the parish of Corsfe Castle in the said County during the remainder of the Term of years therein to come at the time of my death equally between them Item I give to my two Kinsmen George Chaldecott and Joseph Chaldecott Forty Pounds apeice to be paid them within a year after my Decease Item I give unto my dear and loving Wife Mrs Margaret Gigger one Hundred Pounds to be paid her within Twelve months time after my Decease by my Executors herein after named out of my personal Estate And I give her likewise all the Silver Plate that was her own before I married her and to dispose of as she pleases and I likewise give her the use of all my Household goods which I shall leave behind me at my Death in the House I now live in (except what was my Fathers goods) and after her Decease all the said Household Goods to be equally divided amongst my Executors herein after named Item I give to each of my late Sister Alfords Daughters Five Pounds apeice as a token of my Kindness to them that they may remember me to be paid them in a Twelve month after my Decease likewise Item I give to my Kinswoman Ann Rogers the Wife of John Rogers of Poole Five Pounds to be paid her in a year after my Death Item I give towards the repairing of the Chancell of the Lady Church in Wareham aforesaid Five Pounds and I charge my Executors herein after named to see the same well done in Six months time after my Death Item I give to the poor of the Town of Wareham aforesaid Five Pounds to be distributed amongst the most necessitous of them within a month after my Decease Item I give all my God Children Twenty Shillings apeice to buy them Rings to wear in remembrance of me Item I give unto my Kinsman Mr William Cock and his Wife each of them a Ring of Twenty Shillings value and to my Brother in Law Mr Robert Coombes a Ring of Twenty Shillings value and to Mr Richard Kaines a Ring of Twenty shillings value and two Guineas for his pains for making my Will and to Mr Pullen a Ring of Twenty Shillings value and a broad peice of Gold called a Jacobus to preach a Funerall Sermon for me and I give to my two Brother in Lawes Mr John Jones and Thomas Chaldecott a Ring each of Twenty Shillings value Item I give a Cloth Coat that is to say a great coat next to my new Cloth great Coat to old Robt Delacourt to wear to keep him warm Item I charge all my Lands Tenements and Here- ditament and all my Estate both real and personal with the true payment of all the Legacies herein before given And Lastly all the rest residue and remainder of all my Goods Chattles Mortgages Bonds Debts ready monies Stock on my Estate and all my personal Estate whatsoever wheresoever or of what nature or kind soever and not herein before disposed of I hereby give and bequeath unto my said two Kinsmen Joseph Gigger and John Gigger whom I make joynt Executors of this my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said George Gigger to this my last will and Testament contained in two Sheets of Paper have sett my hand and seal the Twentieth day of May Anno Domini 1713 First above written Geo Gigger Signed sealed Published and Declared to be the last Will and Testament of me the said George Gigger I signing the same with my own Hand in the presence John Pullen Chr: White Sarah Reives Richard Kaines Probatum fuit ... apud London ... [this paragraph continues in Latin to grant probate on 14 February 1715] Decimo quarto die mensis Februarii Anno Domini Millesimo Sep- tingeentesimo Decimo quinto [to] Josephi Gigger et Johannis Gigger Executorum
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