Ancient, Curious, and Famous WillsHarris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
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Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills
Harris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
Wills
“2nd. But in the event of the decease of my said Son, which God forbid,
my beloved wife still surviving, I do hereby constitute her the Sole
Executrix of all my goods, estate and property not previously
administered, with such assistants as she may name and as may be
assented to by the Judge of Probate of the County wherein my said will
may be proved and approved.”
He gives and bequeaths to his beloved wife Louisa Catherine Adams, his
dwelling house and lot in the city of Washington, and the dwelling house
and farm at Quincy “including the lots of Salt Marsh heretofore leased
in Connexion therewith.”
He also gives to his wife the dwelling-house and land situated on F.
Street in the city of Washington, being his residence in the capital.
He gives to his said wife the furniture in the dwelling-house at Quincy,
with the exception of such articles as are specifically otherwise
bequeathed, also all carriages and horses, china, plate and plated ware,
as well at Quincy as at Washington, excepting such articles thereinafter
otherwise bequeathed, and all the wines in the cellars and closets in
dwelling-houses in both places.
He gives to his said wife in lieu and as a full equivalent for her right
of dower in all the rest and residue of his real estate, whether in
Massachusetts or in Washington, or elsewhere, provided she consent to
renounce the same, the sum of $2000 per annum, to be paid to her during
her natural life, constituting the same a charge upon his estate, to be
paid to her in cash every year she may live.
To his son, Charles Francis Adams, he gives all shares and certificates
of stocks in the Middlesex & Quincy Canals, Braintree and Weymouth
Turnpike, Banks, Insurance Companies, Markets and Hotels; also all
interest in mortgages upon real estate and city stocks, and generally
all and singular the personal property of every description, not
otherwise bequeathed, in trust upon the following conditions and for the
following purposes: That he shall, “during the natural life of my said
wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, pay over to her one entire third part of
the revenue in each and every year; and of the remaining two-thirds of
said revenue, he shall reserve one-half to himself and his own use and
behoof, and of the other half he shall pay over to my daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Mary Catherine Adams one moiety thereof during her natural life,
and the remaining moiety to my granddaughter, Mary Louisa Adams,
daughter of my son John Adams, deceased, and said Mary Catherine.”
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