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Will of Josiah Clarke In re Josiah Clarke deceased I Josiah Clarke. Laborer. Do hereby give and bequeath my whole Estate and effects real and personal, of which I may die possessed, or be entitled to, unto James Clarke, my Father. And I hereby appoint James Clarke Executor of this my will, and I hereby revoke all former Wills and Codicils. In witness whereof I have subscribed these presents at Whitbourne Sixth day of December nineteen hundred and fifteen years in presence of two witnesses. Josiah Clarke X his mark. Signed by the Testator as and for his last Will and testament in presence of us, who at his request, in his presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names. as witnesses. E.W. Leslie. H.L. Leslie. Witness to mark of Josiah Clarke. H.L. Leslie. Correct William F. Lloyd (Listed in the margin next to this will the following)
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Note: The wills in those will books are NOT actual wills. They
are hand-written copies of a, "last will and testament," written by the
court clerk, after the death of the testator, when the executor presented
them to the court for probate. The court clerk didn't list the signatures
at the bottom, he (or she) just put them in the book in whatever order
they were in, on the original document, no spacing most of the time, no
punctuation. The originals were kept by the executor.
We who have typed these wills, have made every effort to include all the errors that were on the microfilm, in order to avoid destroying the integrity of the originals, where ever they may be. |
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