In the Name of God Amen
I John Trimmer of Farnham in the County of Surry Tin Plate worker being desirous 
that all my Worldly Affairs may be found ready Settled when it shall please God to 
take me hence which I know not how soon he may to a Blessed State which I hope 
for with the Faithful in Christ Jesus son and while I enjoy a sound and disposing 
mind memory and understanding make and ordain my last Will and Testament in 
manner and form following whereas I have only two Children to wit two Sons John 
and Robert both of whom are at present under the Age of twenty one years the 
Eldest of whom is bred to my own Trade and by this time is Qualified to follow the 
same now therefore I do hereby appoint constitute make and ordain my loving 
Brother Robert Trimmer of Guildford in the said County of Surry Baker to be 
Guardian over both my said Sons untill their respectively attaining their Ages of 
twenty one years and that my said Eldest Son may be enabled at my decease to 
take to and follow the Trade of a Tin Plate Worker I do give and bequeath unto him 
my said Son John all my Household Furniture Utensils Linnen Goods and Things of 
what kind soever by me used in and about my Household and all my Stock in Trade 
Working Tools and Things used in and about my said Trade but first and before he 
my said Son John do take Possession thereof I will and order my said Brother to 
take a fine full and Particular Inventory and account of all and singular my said 
Stock in Trade Working Tools and things used in my said Trade and that my said 
Brother do cause the same to be fairly appraised and valued by two sensible 
discreet and indifferent men and that such Inventory Appraisement and Valuation 
be made in writing and fairly entered into a Book to be kept untill my youngest Son 
shall attain hes Age of twenty one years And whereas I am seised of a Freehold 
Messuage or Dwelling house situtate in Basingstoke in the County of Southampton 
now I do hereby give and devise the same Messuage or Dwelling House and all the 
Buildings Land and Tenements thereto belonging with all other the Appurtenances 
thereto and also all other my Messuages Buildings Lands Tenements and 
Hereditaments of whatsoever Tenure or Quality the same be and all other my Real 
Estate wheresoever and all my Estate Right Title and Interest thereof therein and 
thereunto unto my said Brother Robert Trimmer and his Heirs in Trust to be by him 
my said brother Robert Trimmer or his Heirs sold to the best Purchaser or 
Purchasers which he or they can get for the same as soon as conveniently may be 
after my decease and out of the monies thereby arising to pay in the first place all 
my Just Debts as well as what I do owe to my said brother and after payment of all 
my Just Debts then in Trust to pay unto my said younger Son Robert his Executors 
or Administrators out of the residue of the moneys arising by such said Sale a Sum 
of Money equal to the whole that my Household Furniture Untensils Linnen Goods 
and things and Stock in Trade Working Tools and things hereby or before given 
unto my Eldest Son shall have been appraised and valued at as aforesaid and 
afterwards in Trust to divide the overplus of the monies arising by such Sale as 
aforesaid into two equal Parts and to pay one of the said Parts or Moieties unto my 
said Eldest Son John his Executors or Administrators and the other of the said parts 
or Moieties unto my youngest Son Robert his Executors or Administrators it being 
my intention that the whole of my Real and Personal Estate shall be equally divided 
between my said two Sons as to the Value thereof Also I do hereby give and 
bequeath unto my said Brother Robert all my Goods Chattels monies Book Debts 
and Securities for money and all other my Personal Estate whatsoever not hereby 
before otherwise disposed of in Trust to be by him equally divided paid and 
delivered unto my said two Sons John and Robert on their respectively attaining the 
Age of twenty one years he my said Brother having first paid and satisfied the 
expenses of my Funeral (which I will to be in a decent Christian mannner at his 
discretion) and all his reasonable Charges in and about his Execution of the Trust 
hereby in him reposed Also I do hereby appoint and ordain him my said Brother 
Robert full and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament in Trust to and for 
the Benefit of my said two Sons John and Robert and I do hereby revoke every 
former Will by me made In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal 
this Eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
fifty five John Trimmer Signed sealed and declared by the Testator John Trimmer 
as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence 
and at his request have hereunto subscribed our names in attestation thereof John 
Bradly John Bradly John Peck 

This Will of John Trimmer late of Farnham in the County of Surry deceased was 
proved on the fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven 
hundred and Fifty five before the Reverend Cornelius Jeal Clerk a Surrogate by the 
oath of Robert Trimmer the Executor to whom Administration was granted being 
first sworn duly to administer