TUCKER,  GEORGE

will dated 11 Nov 1622
codicil 14 Dec 1625
proved 14 Jan 1625/6

The Will of GEORGE TUCKER of Milton next Gravesend, co. Kent, Esq., dated 11 November 1622. To be buried in Milton under my stone. To Mary, my wife, all corn and grain and household stuff. To my son Robert Tucker £300, to be paid him when twenty-four at or in the porch door on the south side of the Gravesend parish church. To my sons Henry and Daniell 500 marks each. To my daughter Maria Tucker £500 when twenty-one. My daughter Ann Tucker has already been provided for in marriage. To my daughters Sarah, Martha, and Hester Tucker £500 apiece when nineteen, in performance of an indenture made 16 February, 41 Elizabeth (1598/9), between me, George Tucker John Darell, Esq., deceased, my wife's father, and Sir Robert Darell, Knt., her brother. Residuary legatees: my wife Mary and my eldest son, George Tucker. Executrix: my wife Mary. Overseers: my brothers Sir Robert Darell, Knt., and John Darell, Esq.
     To Mary, my wife, my dwelling mansion in Milton called Sir Thomas Wyatt's place, for one year, and then to my son George Tucker. To my son George, my manor of Milton and land purchased from John Childe and James Crispe, Sir William Page, Knt., and Henry Stacie, executors of the will of STephen Colt, and lands bought of _____ Peers and Bradbent and of one Anne Barnes, widow, at Dorkenstile, with remainder to my sons John, Robert, Henry, and Daniell, successively. My son John is to have the lands settled for my heirs male, my annuity from the manor of Mallgraves, co. Essex, and other lands in Hornedon on the Hill, my ten parts and shares in the Summer Islands als Barmother purchased of Sir Robert Mansfeild, Knt., two shares purchased of John Watts, Esq., and four shares purchased of Sir Thomas Smith, Knt. To my wife for life and then to my son John lands bought of the Earl of Salisbury in co. Kent. Witnesses: Lawrence Loulase, Francis Jackson, William Pepper, and Thomas B!olke.
     Codicil, dated 14 December 1625. As I have given to my son John lands purchased of George and Thomas Morris and lands purchased of Roger Gardiner in Lower Sherne which cost me near £800, the sixteen shares of the Summer Islands are to go to my son George; he giving my wife half the profits, and my son is to do the best for his brother Daniell in those shares lately given him by his uncle, Capt. Daniel Tucker. To the poor of Gravesend £10 and to the poor of Milton £10. To the poor of Hoo, Chalke, and Norfleet, each parish, 40s. Witnesses: Martin Stower, minister, Edward Tenche.
     Proved 14 January 1625/6. Administration was granted, 1 July 1630, to Sir Nicholas Salter, creditor, the executrix being dead. (P. C. C., Hele, 5.)[1]
[2] Two of these wills have already appear in print--that of George Tucker, the testator of 1622, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 17, pp. 394-395, and that of his son George, the testator of 1639, in the same publication, vol. 39, pp. 354-355. The importance of these two wills in the history of the Tucker family and, especially, the reference in the will of the younger George to his (half) brothers John and Robert, whom the late Ephraim Tucker claimed as settlers of Massachusetts, warrant their reproduction in this article. The abstract of the first of these two wills has been adapted from the abstract printed in The Virginia Magazine, while that of the second will has been made directly from the recorded copy of the will in Somerset House, London, and has been compared with the abstract printed in The Virginia Magazine.