[Sidenote: Mary Goodwin, $1000.]
I give and bequeath to Miss Mary Goodwin, daughter of the said Mrs.
Maria Goodwin, the sum of one thousand dollars.
[Sidenote: Delia Goodwin, $1000.]
I give and bequeath to Miss Delia Goodwin, daughter of the said Mrs.
Maria Goodwin, the sum of one thousand dollars.
[Sidenote: Rev. E. Peabody, $5000.]
I give and bequeath to my friend and pastor, the Rev. Ephraim Peabody,
of Boston, the sum of five thousand dollars.
[Sidenote: The servants, $5000.]
I give and bequeath to the servants who may be living with me at the
time of my decease the sum of five thousand dollars, to be distributed
among them in the manner and according to proportions fixed upon by
my beloved wife.
[Sidenote: To his Executors, $200,000 for public uses.]
And I do also hereby give and bequeath to my executors hereinafter
named--or such of them as shall accept the trust, the survivors or
survivor of them, to be by them applied, disposed of, and distributed,
for scientific, literary, religious, or charitable purposes--the
following manufacturing stocks at their par value, estimated at two
hundred thousand dollars, and situated as follows, to wit:--
1st. _At Manchester, State of New Hampshire._
Fifty shares in the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.
Forty shares in the Stark Mills.
Ten shares in the Manchester Print Works.
2d. _At Lowell, State of Massachusetts._
Twenty shares in the Merrimac Manufacturing Company.
Twenty shares in the Appleton Manufacturing Company.
Twenty shares in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company.
Twenty shares in the Suffolk Manufacturing Company.
Twenty shares in the Massachusetts Cotton Mills.
My wishes in regard to the particular institutions or objects to which
the aforesaid manufacturing stocks are to be applied, and also the
time and mode of the application thereof, I intend to make known to
my executors; and I feel sure that they will strictly comply with the
same; and, in default of any such directions from me, I have
confidence in their making such a disposition and distribution of said
property as they will think would be most likely to meet my
approbation.
[Sidenote: Powers of sale, &c.]
[Sidenote: Estate to be settled in 2 years.]
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