Last Will and Testament of Thomas Knaggs of Whitby 28th March 1772

In the name of God Amen

I Thomas Knaggs of Whitby in the County of York, Mariner being in bodily health and of sound and disposing mind and memory and considering the perils and the dangers of the sea and other uncertainties of this transistory life. I do for avoiding controversies after my decease make publish and declare this my last will and treatment in the manner following that is to say.  Firstly 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 disperse thereof as followth that is to say. I give and bequeath to my sisters Mary Hill, Elizabeth Buttery and Ann Knaggs each the sum of one guinea and as for all and every my.  			
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Wages , sum and sums of money, lands, testaments., goods, chattels and estate whatsoever, as shall be anyways due, owing or belonging to me at the time of  my decease,  I do give, devise and bequeath the same unto my wife Adelina Knaggs her heirs executors, administrators and assigns to hold unto her and them according to several notices and tenures of such estates and effects subject to payment of the prenimenary legacies aforesaid and I do herby nominate and appoint  the said Adelina Knaggs sole
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Executrix of this my last will and testament, herby revoking all former and other wills, testaments and or deeds or gifts by me at any time hereto made and I do ordain and ratify these presents to stand and be for and as my only last will and testament
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in things where of this my  said will I have set my hand and seal the twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Two and in the Twelfth year of the reign of his majesty King George Third over Great Britain.

Signed, Sealed, Published
And Declared in the presence of us
By the above Thomas Knaggs
As and for his Last Will and Testament

Signatures of:

Luth Brough      N.T. (North Tyneside?) Northshields
Thos Knaggs		

John Gilley		Thomas Hedley