William Kewley of Philpot St. aforesaid ship master & Ann his wife

I James Kewley of High Street in the parish of St. Paul, Shadwell in the County of Misddlesex Green Grocer do make and publish my last will and testament in manner and form following; that is to say I give and bequeath all my estate and effects of whatsoever nature kind or quality and wheresoever situate of I may die posessed of unto my dear dear wife Jane for her own use and benefit and I acknowledge and declare that I hold a certain deed poll bearing date the twentieth day of april eighteen hundred and nineteen under the hands and seals of nine of the Trustees for carrying into execution the Act of Parliament for rebuilding Shadwell Church pupporting to be an assignment from the Trustees to William Dixon of a portion of the rates made under the said provisions of the said Act for securing to him his executors administrators and assigns the repayment of five hundred pounds and interest lend by him for the purposes in the said Act mentioned and which said deed poll was on or about the twenty seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty two assigned to me in consideration oif the sum of four hundred and ninety five pounds and I further acknowledge and declare that the sum of two hundred pounds consideration maney was and still remains the proper money of Margaret Skillicorn of the said parish of Saint Paul Shadwell spinster and I hereby appoint my said wife sole EXECUTRIX of this my will hereby revoking al former wills by me at any time heretofore made

In witness whereof I have hereinto set my hand and seal this the thirteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six---------James Kewley --- L.S.

I WILLIAM KEWLEY shipmaster presently residing in Greenock and Master of the ship or vessel called the Mary Stoddart of Grangemouth being resolved so to settle my affairs as to prevent disputes after my death Therefore for the love favour & affection which I have and bear to my wife & children do hereby give grant assign dispone devise and bequeath to and in favour of Mrs Ann Boys or Kewley my spouse in liferent for her liferent not [only?] during the time she remains my widow and to William James Kewley and Martha Kewley my children and any other child or children who may be born of my marriage with the said Mrs Ann Boys or Kewley equally among them share and share alike and failing any of them by death without leaving lawful issue to the survivors of my said children in fee all and sundry lands and heritages debts heritable and moveable goods gear sums of money & others & in general my whole heritable and moveable ESTATE of whatsoever kind or denomination the same may be or wheresoever situate presently belonging to me or which shall belong to me at the time of my death with the whole vouchers and instructions and writs titles and securities of my said estate and in particular without prejudice to the foresaid generality all my freehold leasehold and copyhold messuages farms lands tenements and hereditaments in Saint John Newfoundland with their rights members and appurtenances to hold to my said disponees and devisees according to their respective rights of liferent and fee as aforesaid acconding to the nature and tenureof the said premises and I do hereby bind and oblige myself and my heirs and successors to infeft and seize my said disponees according to their respective rights of liferent and fee in the whole lands and other heritages generally above conveys and dispones by me requiring infeffment and for that purpose to make grant subscribe and deliver to my disponees all writs deeds and conveyances that may be necessary containing procurations of resignation precepts of sasine and other usuual clauses necessary for fully vesting and establishing the premiseds in their persons but these presents are granted under the burden of payment of all my just and lawful debts ....and funeral charges and with this declaration and provision that these presents as far as conceived in favour of the said Mrs Ann Boys or Kewley are granted under this burden vizt. that so long as she continues to enjoy the provisions herein conceived in her favour she shall be bound out of the sums of money which she may receive to .... upbring and maintain the said children in a manner suitable to the means at her command after due allowance for her own maintenance and that until they shall respectively be able to maintain themselves or be married and which provisions in favour of my said wife and children are hereby declared to be in lieu and in full of their jus relictae legitim half or third of moveables and any other claim, legal or conventional which the said Mrs Ann Boys or Kewley or the said children or any of them may or can claim in and through my decease and also in full of all that the said Mrs Ann Boys or Kewleys heirs executors or nearest of kin can ask or claim in the event of her predeceasing me which all such claims shall be held to be renounced and discharged by the acceptation by the said Mrs Ann Boys or Kewley and the said children respectively of the above written provisions in their favour and I do hereby nominate & appoint the said Mrs Ann Boys or Kewley as long as she remains my widow and Mrs Jane Kewley residing in High Street Shadwell London widowand the survivor of them to be my EXECUTORS with power to them to give up inventories of my personal estate and to confirm the same as use is they being bound to account and pay to my said wife & children according to their respective rights under these presents and also to be tutors and curators and guardians to the children of the said marriage with all the powers competenyt to executors tutors curators and guardians declaring that neither as executors tutors curators nor guardians ahall they be liable for omissions or to so exact diligence of one for another but for actual intromissions only deducting all necessary charges and I do hereby reserve my own liferent of the whole premises with the power to alter innovate or revoke these presents in whole or in part dispensing with the delivery hereof and declaring these presents so far as not altered to be sufficiently valid & effectual though found lying in my repositories or in the custody of a third party undelivered at the time of my death and consent tot the registration hereof in the Books of the Council of Session or others competent thereinto remain for preservation & for that purpose constitute [blank - NGC] Procurators

In witness whereof to these presents written upon this and the two preceding pagesby Stewart Neill Clerk to Robert Neill writer in Greenock I have set my hand and seal at Greenock the twenty third day of November eighteen hundred and fifty three years before these witnesses Henry Potter shipmaster of Saint Johns Newfoundland presently in Greenock and Edward Hyslop glass and china merchant twenty eight Hamilton Street Greenock. Signed sealed published and declared by the above named William Kewley the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in the presence of each other have have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto ~ (sigd) ~ WILLIAM KEWLEY (L.S.)

(Signed)~HENRY POTTER shipmaster of Saint Johns Newfoundland present in Greenock witness - (Signed)~EDWARD HYSLOP glass and china merchant 28 Hamilton Street Greenock witness -