Antrim Wills: McWaters Or McWalters, Charles 4 July 1761 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Antrim Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com ANTRIM WILLS: MCWATERS OR MCWALTERS, CHARLES 4 JULY 1761 Source: National Archives Kew England Proved: 4 July 1761 In the Name of God Amen I Charles McWaters of Belfast in Ireland but now of his Majestys Ship Greenwich Mariner 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 after all my Just Debts are paid to my father Thomas McWaters in Case of his Decease to my Brother David McWaters or at his decease to Robert McWaters all of Belfast in Ireland all my Wages Sum and Sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods Chattels and Estate whatsoever as Shall be anyways Due owing or belonging unto me at the time of my decease I do Give Devise and bequeath the same unto my father Thomas McWaters in Case of his Decease to my Brother David McWaters or in Case of his Decease to my Brother Robert McWaters all of Belfast aforesaid And I do hereby Nominate and Appoint my father Thomas McWaters in Case of his Decease my Brother David McWaters or in Case of his Decease my Brother Robert McWaters Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments and Deeds of Gift by me at any time heretofore made And I do Ordain and Ratify these Presents to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set my hand and Seal the Seventh Day of July in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and fifty five And in the Twenty Ninth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Second over Great Britain etc, Charles McWalters, Signerd Sealed Published and Declared in the Presence of R Roddam _ Samuel Perry Proved at London 4 July 1761 to David McWalters the brother substituted for Thomas McWalters the father who died in the lifetime of the Testator PCC Prob11/867