Deed 1: Nicholas Spencer granting land to his son and future daughter in law, 1641 Transcription

To all christian people to whome this present writing shall come Nicholas Spencer of Ramsgate in the parish of St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Thanet in th County of Kent yeoman sends greeting in our Lord god everlasting Know yee that I the said Nicholas Spencer for and in consideration of a marriage by the grace of god shortly to bee had and Solemized between William Spencer of Ramsgate aforesaid mariner my naturall Sonne and Mary Goodson daughter of Alexander Goodson late of the parish of St. Peter in the said Isle and County yeoman deceased and of Parnell Goodson widdow of the said Alexander and for diverse other good causes and considerations mee thereunto moveing Have given granted and confirmed and by these presents doth give grant and confirme unto the said William Spencer my sonne and Mary Goodson all that my house or Tennement with one barne two herringhouses and other outhouses thereunto belonging with the appurtennces also one orchard one garden and one acre of land by estimation more or lesse hereunto belonging and adjoyning situate lying and being at Ramsgate aforesaid in the said parrish of St. Lawrence to the kings high way there towards the Southeast to the lands of William Sacket towards the Southwest and Northwest and to the lands of the Heirs of Azavias(?) Spencer towards the Northeast, and also one other p[ar]cell of arrable land containing by estimation three acres more or lesse lying and being in the said parrish of St Lawrence to a place there called the liberty way towards the Southwest to the lands of William Sacket towards the northwest and northeast towards the lands of Thomas Coppin & James Coppin towards the Southeast with all and Singular their appurten[an]c[e]s To have and to hold the said house or tennement barne herringhouses outhouses orchard garden lands and premises with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said William Spencer and Mary Goodson to the onely uses intents and purposes following in these presents That is to say to the onely use and behoofe of mee the said Nicholas Spencer for and during the time and tenure of my naturall life and from and after my decease to the use and behoofe of the said William Spencer and Mary Goodson for and during the time and terme of their naturall lives and the longest lives of them and after their decease to the heires males of the said William Spencer on the body of the said Mary Goodson lawfully to be begotten and for want of such heires to the right heires of the said William Spencer for ever And I the said Nicholas Spencer and my heires the said house or tennte barnes herringhouses outhouses orchard garden lands and premises with appurten[an]c[e]s unto the said William and Mary to the uses and intents aforesaid shall and will warrent and for ever defend by these presents In Witness whereof I the said Nicholas Spencer have hereunto set my hand and seale Dated the seaven and twentieth day of December the seaventeenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the faith anno qt dom 1641