Ancient, Curious, and Famous WillsHarris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
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Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills
Harris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
Wills
“20th. I give and bequeath to my grandson Charles Francis Adams second
son of my son, aforesaid, a cane also cut from the timbers of the
frigate Constitution, and given to me by its Commander Commodore Isaac
Hull in the year 1836, which is marked upon a silver ring immediately
under the head of said cane.
“21st. I give to my grandson Henry Brooks Adams, third son of my son
aforesaid, a cane made of olive from Mount Olivet in Jerusalem, given to
me by my nephew Joseph Harrod Adams by whom it was caused to be cut on
the spot, he being personally there as an officer of the United States.
“22nd. I have given to my daughter A. B. Adams, wife of my son Charles
Francis Adams, the portfolio of engravings of pictures of Colonel
Trumbull, presented to me by him. I now give to her a silver tankard
which was my mother’s, from her grandfather John Quincy--also the
portrait of the said John Quincy at two years of age now in her house at
Quincy, and that of his mother, being Anna Shepard, daughter of the
celebrated Thomas Shepard, minister of Charleston, by whom the estate at
Mount Wollaston was bequeathed by will to the said John Quincy. These
pictures were given to me by will of Norton Quincy, only son of the said
John Quincy.
“23rd. I give and bequeath to my friend the Reverend Dr. Nathaniel L.
Frothingham, a seal with a device of an oak acorn, and the motto ‘alteri
seculo’ as a small token of my personal esteem and friendship for him.
“24th. I give and bequeath to my friend Dr. George Parkman of Boston a
seal enchased with the image of General George Washington as a small
token of the esteem and affection which I bear to him.
“25th. I give and bequeath to my grandson John Quincy Adams my
Chronometer made by French, bearing his initials, being the same as my
own, to be kept by his father until he shall think proper to deliver it
to him.
“26th. I give to my granddaughter Mary Louisa Adams, my seal bearing a
Lion engraved upon a Silesian stone, which I had engraved there at the
time of my tour through that country; the gold medal presented to me by
the Corporation of the City of New York struck on the opening of the
Grand Canal, the silver cup with the inscription ‘Circes pocula
nosti’--and the seal engraved on a Sardonyx with my cipher on one side
and the Boylston arms on the other. I give all other medals, coins, or
presents of small value which I have received, a silver wafer box, and
pair of portable candlesticks, my own cushion, seal at arms on a
cornelian and my seal with the device of the Eagle and Lyre to my son
Charles Francis Adams. Also a bronze medal given to me by Commodore
Jesse D. Elliot struck by his order in honor of Thomas Cooper Esqr. and
also another medal in silver which he directed to be given to the
historical society of Rhode Island, refused by that society shortly
before his death and held by me subject to their order. Also the history
of the Croton Aqueduct a present from the City of New York.
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