The “Father of our Country,” General George Washington, left the bulk of his estate to his wife, Martha Washington, for life,[63] with the “liquors and groceries” on hand at his death, to dispose of as she saw fit. Upon her death he willed that all slaves owned by him, in his own right, should have their freedom and that the old and infirm and sick ones should be protected and maintained by his heirs so long as they lived and the younger ones educated and maintained the same as other poor children. He left the fifty shares in the Potomac Company, given him for his services in the Revolutionary War, to endow a University within the limits of the District of Columbia; some of his lands were distributed among the sons of his deceased brothers; his military and state papers were left to his nephew, Bushrod Washington; he recommitted the “box of oak that sheltered the great Sir William Wallace,” to the Earl of Beuban; to his brother, Charles, he left the gold headed cane left him by Dr. Franklin and among the “mementos of esteem and regard,” to his many friends, are a pair of pistols to General De La Fayette. He desired that in case of any dispute over his will that the disputants select each an arbitrator, the two thus selected to agree upon a third and the finding of any two as to his intentions, he desired to be “as binding upon the parties as if it had been given in the Supreme Court of the United States.” Like Washington, and many other of the patriots of the past century, William Penn prepared his own will, in 1718, so as to cause no little concern to his friend, James Logan, as to the different constructions that could be placed upon it. The Government of the Province of “Pennsylvania and territories thereto belonging,” he devised in trust to the Earls of Oxford, Mortimer and Powelett, “and their heirs, upon trust, to dispose thereof to the Queen” or to any other person to the best advantage to carry out the object of the devise. He further devised to his wife, Hannah Penn; to her father, Thomas Callowhill; to his sister, Margaret Lowther; to his friends “Gilbert Heathcote Physitian, Samuel Waldenfield, John Field, Henry Gouldney, all living in England” and to his friends, Samuel Carpenter, Richard Hill, Isaac Norris, Samuel Preston and James Logan, “liveing in or near Pensilvania and their heires” all his lands, tenements and hereditaments, with “other profitts scituate, lyeing and being in Pensilvania and the territores thereunto belonging,” in trust, first for the payment of his debts, second, to convey 10,000 acres each to the three children of his son, William, a like quantity to his daughter, Aubrey, and the rest to be divided among the children of his present wife, “in such proporcon and for such estates as my said wife shall think fit.” His wife was made executrix and all his personal estate was left to her.