“I give and bequeath to the inhabitants of the town of Concord and successors forever the residue of my real estate that I shall dye seized of in said Commonwealth of Massachusetts; to come into possession of the same at the decease or marriage of my wife above named and not before and the income thereof to be solely applied for the support of the poor of said town of Concord, and my will is that the care of the principal and income of said estate be under the particular direction of the selectmen of Concord for the time being; and that the said income be uniformly and annually delivered by them to the poor of said town to whom they shall think the proper objects of it; the sale of part of said estate if thought best by the inhabitants of Concord when they are in possession and the interest of the money coming by said sale to be applied as above ordered I am content with: But the farm I give to the town, called the Stratton farm, lying in the middle of the town of Concord, I entail the same to be improved as a poor house and the land to be improved by and for the benefit of the poor; and to be under the special direction and care of the overseers of the poor of the town of Concord for the time being for the purposes afore^{sd} for ever.” His widow, Rebecca Cargill, on December 27, 1800, in anticipation of her marriage to Paul Adams (which occurred August 2, 1801), executed releases to the town of all her interest in the estate devised, and thus vested the gift.[37] The estate is still used as a poor farm. Mr. Cargill’s remains rest on the westerly slope of the Old Hill burial ground in Concord, close by the grave of his wife, Rebecca Cargill Adams, who died March 5, 1838. His grave is marked by a slab surmounted by an urn in relief, on which is inscribed the initials of his name. Beneath is the following inscription:[38] Here lyes Intered the remains of Mr. Hugh Cargill late of Boston who died in Concord Jan^ry 12, 1799 in the 60th year of his age Mr. Cargill was born in Ballyshannon in Ireland came into this country in the year 1774 destitute of the comforts of life but by his industry & economy he acquired a good estate and having no Children he at his death devis’d his estate to his wife Mrs. Rebecca Cargill and to a number of his Friends & Relations by Marriage & Especially a large and Generous Donation to the Town of Concord for Benevolent and Charitable purposes. How strange O God who reigns on high, That I should come so far to die, And leave my friends where I was bred, To lay my bones with strangers dead But I have hopes when I arise, To dwell with The in yonder skies.