Transcript:An 1871 Will of David Nelson Ring

On this eleventh day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the forenoon. Before me, Jean Moïse Lefebvre, the undersigned Public Notary for the Province of Quebec, residing at Sweetsburgh, in the Township of Dunham, in the District of Bedford, in the said Province and the witnesses hereinafter named and also hereunto subscribing, came and appeared David Nelson Ring of the east part of the Township of Farnham, in the said District, Yeoman, who being sound of mind, memory, judgment and understanding as it appeared to us, said Notary and witnesses, in the view of death, hath requested me, said Notary, in presence of said witnesses to take and receive his present last Will and Testament, which he declares to be in the terms following, viz:

1st I recommend my sole to almighty God.

2nd My body I commend to the earth to be buried in a Christian like manner.

3rd All my just and lawful debts I order shall be paid and wrongs, if any there be, repaired by my Testamentary Executrix hereinafter named.

4th I do hereby give devise and bequest, unto Juliet Truax my wife, all and whatever property both real and personal, movable and immovable which I may own at the time of my decease, of whatever nature & quality that the said property may be, to whatever sum and sums of money that the same may amount and in whatever place that same may be found due and situated, hereby to that effect instituting her, said Juliet Truax my universal Legatee & Devisee.

To have and to hold, use and enjoy my said property unto my said wife her heirs and assigns and to enter upon and take possession of the same at the time of my decease. And to cause my present intentions to be carried into effect, I do hereby name and appoint for Executrix the person of said Juliet Truax, my wife, into whose hands I do hereby divest myself of all my property according to custom, hereby revoking all former Will and Codicil that I may have heretofore made, the present being the only one containing my last intentions. Done and passed at East Farnham aforesaid, in the store of Rodney Hutchins Esquire, Trader, on the day, month and year firstly herein written, under the number one hundred and thirty-seven. In testimony whereof, the said Testator hath signed with and in the presence of me, said Notary and Rodney Hutchins and Lyman Buck, Esquires, Traders of said East part of the Township of Farnham, witnesses hereto expressly requested her who have signed in his presence and in the presence of each others these presents having been first duly read. {signed} David N. Ring Rodney Hutchins witness, Lyman Buck witness and J. M. Lefebvre

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