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Acte No. 5662 17 June 1901
Last Will of Andrew Truax
On the seventeenth day of the month of June, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and one, in the afternoon,
Before Me. Siméon Noiseux, Notary Public, for the province of Quebec Canada, residing in the town of Farnham, in the District of Bedford, and in the presence of the two witnesses hereinafter named, undersigned,
Came and appeared Mr. Andrew Truax, residing in Brigham, in the East part of the township of Farnham, said district, old farmer,
Who being sick of body, but sound of mind, memory, & judgment, as it appeared to us the Notary, and witnesses, hath requested me the said Notary, to write down and receive in due form of law his last will and testament, which he has declared in manner and form following, to wit;
- I recommend my Soul to God.
- I do give and bequeath by special gift to my dear son Parker Truax the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, being the same sum of money I loaned to him, and for which I hold a mortgage on his real estates.
- I do give and bequeath to my dear and beloved wife Lucy Ingalls, by universal gift my full and entire property, the whole of the remainder of my property, real and personal, movable and immovable of which I may die possessed, hereby constituting my said wife my universal legatee and devisee.
- I appoint my dear wife, my sole executrix of this my last will and I revoke all wills and codicils I may have heretofore made.
The present will was thus declared, by the said testator, to me the said Notary, and in the presence of the said Thomas Alexander Munroe, Congregational Clergyman and Thomas E. Smith merchant both residing in the village of Brigham, said district, witnesses called for the purpose hereof, and read by the Notary in the presence of the said witnesses to the said testator who declared to well and truly understand the same and to persist therein.
Done and passed in the village of Brigham, East part of the township of Farnham, in the dwelling house of the testator, on the date above written under the number five thousand six hundred and sixty two, of the undersigned Notary original records, and the testator declaring he is unable to sign his name being now too old, he made his mark with a cross, and has given his consent to these presents, in the presence of the Notary and witnesses, and the witnesses have signed with the Notary, in the presence of the testator, in the presence of each other after due reading hereof as aforesaid.
<signed> Andrew {x, his mark} Truax, Thos. A. Munroe, Thos. E. Smith, S. Noiseux NP
- Transcribed by H. L. Jackman, April 2016
Original Notarial Documents
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