Ancient, Curious, and Famous WillsHarris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
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Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills
Harris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
Wills
“27th. I give to my daughters in law Mary Catharine Adams, widow of my
son John Adams, and to Abigail Brown Adams, wife of my son Charles
Francis Adams, one hundred dollars each to purchase some permanent token
of remembrance of me which they may leave to their daughters; and I
further give to my said daughter Mary Catherine Adams the clock with the
device of Penelope in my chamber at Washington.
“28th. I give to my nephew and namesake John Quincy Adams my small seal
with my cipher engraved upon a cornelian; and a pair of gold sleeve
buttons, with the motto ‘aequam memento servare memtem’ which I wore
when I was President of the United States.”
He gives to each of his two granddaughters, Mary Louise Adams, daughter
of his son, John Adams, deceased, and to Louisa Catherine Adams,
daughter of his son, Charles Francis Adams, one-half of the sums
deposited in his name in the Institution for Savings in the City of
Boston, the said sums to remain on deposit there until the thirteenth
day of August 1852, when the younger of the two would, if living, attain
the age of twenty-one years.
“30th. I also give to my son Charles Francis Adams and to his heirs and
assigns the Pew numbered Fifty four in the Stone Meeting house at
Quincy, also the Pew in the Gallery Numbered Five, and the family tomb
in the grave yard opposite the said meeting house.
“31st. I also give to my wife Louisa Catherine Adams the pew which I own
in St. Johns Church at Washington, and also the pew which I own in
Christ Church at Quincy.
“32nd. I give and devise to the supervisors of the Adams Temple and
school fund at Quincy all the remaining pews in the Stone Meeting house
at Quincy of which I retain the property to be by them held or sold as
in their judgment shall be deemed best; and the proceeds of the same
shall be applied to the erection of a stone school house over the cellar
which was under the house formerly built by the Reverend John Hancock,
conformably to the deed of gift of my deceased father John Adams, of the
twenty fifth of July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty two to the
Inhabitants of the Town of Quincy.
“33rd. I give and bequeath to my cousin Louisa Catherine Smith the sum
of fifty dollars per annum as an annuity to be paid by my Executor
during her life and as a slight token of my regard for her.
“In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at the City
of Boston this Eighteenth day of January in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and forty seven.
“JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.”
WILL OF CAPTAIN JOHN ALDEN
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