Will of Jacob Chafe
from Newfoundland will books vol 11 pages 231 & 232 probate year 1918

In re Jacob Chafe       deceased

This is the last will and testament of me Jacob Chafe Fisherman of Petty Harbor, in the Electoral District of St. John's West.
First I desire that all my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses, and the cost of headstone shall be first paid out of my Estate.
Second: I appoint Henry J. W. Bishop of Petty Harbor sole executor of this my will.
Third: I give devise and bequeath to my son Daniel my dwelling house household goods, furniture and garden.
Fourth: I give devise and bequeath to my three sons Edward William and Daniel my premises and lands situate at Petty Harbor together with outhouses, fishing stages flakes and all other buildings and erections thereon but at the death of my son William his share of the property is to go to the children of my son Edward.
Fifth: I give devise and bequeath to my son Edward the sum of five hundred dollars.
Sixth: I give devise and bequeath the remainder of all monies of which I shall die possessed to my five children hereinafter named in equal shares between them, that is to say - my two sons William and Daniel and my three daughters [1] Hannah wife of Henry Chafe [2] Mary Ann wife of Nathaniel Chafe [3] Margaret, wife of Edward White. Witness my hand at Petty Harbour this twenty-fourth day of April A.D. one thousand nine hundred and eighteen Jacob his X mark Chafe. Signed published and declared by the said Testator as and for his last will and testament in our presence, who in the presence of the said Testator and of each other, all present at the same time have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. The said Will having been first read over to and approved by the said Testator as and for his last will and testament John R. Witten    Jacob Chafe of Ambrose

Correct Charles H. Emerson
Registrar of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland.

(Listed in the margin next to this will the following)
Fiat
Nov. 8/18
Kent J.
Probate
Nov. 13/18
granted
to Henry
J. W. Bishop
Estate
sworn
at $3050.00

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