King Family

Notes: John presumably died before 1765, when a brother was also named John, although I have not found a burial record.

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Robert King captain in the Royal Artillery now of Greenwich in the county of Kent but about to sail to Gibraltar made whilst in good health and of sound mind perfect and disposing memory whereby I recommend my Soul to God and dispose of my Estate and Effects as follows first I give and bequeath unto my Dear and Beloved wife Sarah King to and for her own absolute use and Benefit all and my Singular my Household Goods and ffurniture plate pictures China Linen and Household Stuff of every Sort and Kind soever that I shall leave at the time of my Decease also I give and bequeath Dear Wife Sarah King the several sums of five thousand pounds Stock three per cent Reduced Bank Annuities and three thousand pounds Stock three per cent Consolidated Bank Annuities absolutely to and for her own Use & Benefit and Disposal and which said Several sums of five thousand pounds Stock three per cent Reduced Annuities and three thousand pounds Stock three per cent Consolidated Bank Annuities I hereby will order and direct shall be assigned and transferred by my Executors hereinafter named unto her my said Wife as soon as may be after my Decease which said Several Sums of Money is so given and bequeathed by me to my said Dear Wife for her own absolute Disposal in the firmest Confidence nevertheless that she will give and dispose of the same at her Decease unto and amongst such Child or children as I shall have by her at my Decease and who shall be living at the time of her Death | and whereas under and by virtue of the last will and Testament of my late father Shaw King Esquire deceased I am seized of and intitled to the reversion in fee simple expectant and to take effect in posession upon the Decease of my Mother Mrs Elizabeth King now living of in and to an undivided third part of and divers freehold Oyster Layings Messuages Farms Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Real Estates situate and being in the Several Counties of Northampton and Essex Now I do hereby give devise and bequeath my said reversion in fee simple expectant and to take effect in possession upon the Decease of my said Mother of in and to the said undivided third part of and in the said freehold hereditaments and premises so given and devised to me by my said late father in and by his said will and also all and every other the Messauges Tenaments Lands Heriditaments and Real Estates and Parts and Shares of Messauges Tenaments Lands and Heriditaments and Real Estate in or to which I have any Estate of freehold or Inheritance by or under the said last will and Testament of my said father or otherwise in any manner howsoever either in possession Reversion Remainder or Expectancy and wheresoever the same are or shall be Situate and being unto my said wife Sarah and my Brother the Reverend Shaw King Clerk and to their heirs In Trust for and unto and between all and every such Child or Children as I have or shall have by my said Wife or as she may be ensient with at the time of my Decease and their heirs and assigns for ever equally share and share alike to take as Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants if more than one and if but one then In Trust for such only Child his or her heirs and assigns for ever But In Case any or either of such children as I have by my said Wife or as she may be ensient with at the time of my Decease shall happen to die under the age of twenty one years and have no lawful Issue then In Trust for the Survivors of such Children and their heirs and assigns forever equally share and share alike to take as Tenants in Common and not as joint tenants if more than one and if but One Child then In Trust for such Surviving or only Child and his or her heirs and assigns for ever | and I do hereby give and bequeath unto and will order and direct that the whole of the Rents and profits which shall arise and become payable upon and from my said Real Estates so devised by me In Trust as aforesaid shall be paid to and be had and received by my said Wife to and for her own use and benefit until such Child or Children shall respectively attain their age and respective ages of twenty one years as well for the better support and Maintenance of herself as for the maintenance and support of my said Child or Children in the mean time But if it shall happen at the time of my Decease I shall Leave no Child or Children by my said Wife and my said Wife shall not be then ensient of any Child or Children or there being any such Child or Children whether born in my Lifetime or in due time after my Decease shall happen to die under the age of twenty one years and have no lawful Issue by any of them then upon further Trust upon either of the said Events happening and immediately thereupon to pay to or otherwise permit and Suffer my said Dear Wife and her assigns In Case she shall be then Living from thenceforth to have receive and take the whole of the annual Rents Issues and profits to arise and to grow due and to be payable upon and from the said freehold Heriditaments and Real Estates so given and devised by me as aforesaid In Trust as aforesaid for and during the term of her Natural Life and from and Immediately after her Decease I give devise and bequeath the same freehold Heriditaments and Real Estates unto and between my said Brother Shaw King and my brother John King and to their respective heirs and assigns for ever equally share and share alike as Tenants in Common and not as joint Tenants but in Case either of my said Brothers Shaw King and John King shall happen to die without lawful issue then I give and devise the whole of my said freehold Heriditaments and Real Estates unto the Survivor of my said Brothers and to his heirs and assigns for ever and as to all and every Sum and Sums of Money which Can shall or may arise and become payable to me or to which I now am or Can shall or may become intitled upon or from the Sale or Sales of any Estate or Estates given devised and bequeathed by my said late father deceased in and by his said will and therein and thereby directed to be sold as well upon his Decease as after the Death of my said Mother and the Money to arise by and from such Sale and Sales to be paid and payable unto and between me and my two Brothers John King and Charles King since deceased in equal shares and proportions I do hereby will order and direct that the same respective Sum and Sums of Money Last mentioned and every part thereof shall fall into and Compose part of the Residual and remainder of my personal Estate and Effects and be paid applied and disposed of as part thereof and I do hereby give and bequeath the same as part thereof accordingly and as to all the Rest Residual and remainder of my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever or of what Nature or kind soever the same shall or may Consist at the time of my Decease and not hereinbefore by me given and disposed of I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my said Wife and my said Brother Shaw King and to the Survivor of them and the Executors and administrators of the Survivor of them upon Trust in the first place to pay and discharge thereout or out of some part or parts thereof my Debts funeral Expenses and the Expenses of proving this my Will and from and after such several payments thereout as Last aforesaid upon further Trust to lay out and Invest the whole of the said residual and Remainder of my said personal Estate and Effects in the purchase of Stock in some one or more of the public Stocks or funds of this Kingdom in their Names or in the Name of the Survivor of them or the Executors or administrators of the Survivor and I do hereby will order and direct that they my said Trustees and the Survivor of them and the Executors and administrators of the Survivor of them shall and will stand and be possessed of the Several and respective capital or principal Stock Monies which shall from time to time be so bought and purchased by with and from such residue and remainder and every part of the same respectively upon Trust nevertheless that she my said Dear Wife and her assigns shall and may receive and take the whole of the Dividends Interest and profits thereof and every part thereof respectively for and during the term of her Natural Life to and for her own use and Benefit and from and Immediately after her Decease then upon Trust to pay apply and dispose of assign and transfer the said Rest Residue or remainder of my said personal Estate and the Stocks funds or Securities in which the same shall be invested unto and amongst all and every such Child or Children as I shall have Living by my said Wife or as she may be ensient with at the time of my decease to be equally divided between them share and share alike if more than One and if but one then to such only child But in case any or either of such children as I shall have by my said wife or as she may be ensient with at the time of my Decease shall happen to be under the age of twenty one years then upon further Trust that my said Trustees shall and do pay apply and dispose of assign and transfer the part and share in parts and Shares of him her or those so dying under the said age of and in the said Rest Residual and Remainder of my said personal Estate and Effects and the Stocks funds or Securities in which the same shall be invested unto and amongst the Survivors of them to be equally divided between them share and share alike if more than One at his her and their several ages of twenty one years and if there shall be but one such child who shall live to attain that age then to such only or Surviving Child absolutely to and for his or her own use and of my said personal Estate and Effects and the Stocks funds or Securities in which the same shall be invested shall go to and be paid and applied unto and amongst such person or persons as should or would be my next of kin and intitled to Distribution of my personal Estate and Effects in case I had died unmarried and Intestate and I do hereby will order and direct that the Receipt and Receipts of my said Trustees and the Survivor of them and the Executors and admons of the Survivor of them of and for the said Several Sum and Sums of Money to which I now am or shall or may become intitled under and by virtue of the said Will of my said father as therein and hereinbefore mentioned shall and will be good and sufficient Discharge and good and Sufficient Discharge to the person or persons who shall or may pay the same and his her and their respective heirs Executors and administrators and that the person or persons so paying the same shall not be bound to see to the application of the same respective Monies or any part thereof or be Subject or liable to the Misapplication or Nonapplication of the same or any part thereof and I do hereby will order and direct that it shall and may be lawful to and for my said Trustees and the Survivor or them and the Executors and Administrators of the Survivor of them from time to time to deduct and retain to themselves and each of them by and out of the said respective Trust Estate and promises all such reasonable costs charges and Expences as they shall respectively Suffer bear pay Sustain or be put unto in and about the Execution of the said Several Trusts hereby in them reposed and that my said Trustees and the Survivor or them and the Executors and administrators of the Survivor of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any more money than they shall respectively actually receive by Virtue of the Trusts aforesaid nor with nor for any Loss which shall or may happen to the said Trust monies and promises or any part thereof provided the same happen without their or either of their Wilful Neglect or Default and that the one of them shall be answerable for the other of them or for the acts deeds Receipts Disbursements Defaults Executors or Administrators of the other of them but each of them for her and his own Acts Deeds Receipts Disbursements Defaults Executors or Administrators only and I do hereby nominate and appoint my said Dear Wife and my said Brother Shaw Ling Executrix and Executor of this my last Will and Testament and also Guardians to my said Child or Children during his her and their respective Minorities and Lastly I do hereby revoke and make void all former and other wills by me at any time heretofore made and publish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament In Testimony whereof I have to this my Last Will and Testament Contained in this and the four preceding sheets of paper hereto annexed and to a Duplicate of the same set my hand and Seal to wit my hand to the Bottom of each of the preceding sheets and my hand and Seal to this last Sheet and my Seal at the Top of the first of the preceding Sheets where all the said Sheets are fixed together the Eighteenth Day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred Robert King Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Robert King the Testator as and for his Last Will and Testament on the Day of the Date in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereto Subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto Will Allen Tho Wisdarken Chas R Parker Downham Street

This Will was proved at London the twenty sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and two before the Right Honourable Sir William Wynne Kinght Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or commissary of the prerogative court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oaths of Sarah King Widow the Relict and the Reverend Shaw King Clerk the Brother and Executors named in the said Will to whom administration was granted of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and credits of the deceased having been first Sworn by commission duly to administer

The King Family

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Charles King

Elizabeth King

Elizabeth King

Elizabeth Pollard (King) Hulke

Emma King

John King

John King

John King

John King

John Shaw King

Robert King

Robert King

Robert Shaw King

Shaw King

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