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A Collection of Newfoundland Wills
(M)
Isaac Mercer

 

Will of Isaac Mercer from Newfoundland will books volume 15 page 2 probate year 1929

IN RE                              DECEASED.
ISAAC MERCER

This is to certify that I, the undersigned Isaac Mercer of Country Road in the District of Bay Roberts Nfld do hereby divide my property as follows.
That is to say that I give unto my wife Malaha Mercer to be hers as long as she remains in my name.
One half of my dwelling house and also one half of all the out houses including one half of all the property I own.
Together with one half of all my land. That is to say that my wife Malaha Mercer is to have one half of the land now under cultivation together with one half of the uncleared land.
But if my wife Malaha Mercer after my deceased marries again she is to forfeit all claim to any and all of my property.
And unto my son Agustus Mercer I give one half of my dwelling house together with one half of the outhouses and also one half of the land now under cultivation together with one half of the uncleared land. And further that after the deceased of my wife Malaha Mercer that my son Agustus Mercer is to come into possession of all my property.
That is to say that my son Agustus Mercer is to own, together with what I now give to him the whole of all I now give to my wife Malaha Mercer.
But it is to be clearly understood that if my wife Malaha Mercer after my decease marry again that she is to forfeit everything that I now give to her and further that my son Agustus Mercer is to become the sole possessor of all my estate.
Signed and sealed by me at Country Road this twentyeth sixth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty nine

Signed ISAAChisXmarkMERCER

witness Edward J. French
Abram Snow
William Belbin
.

CORRECT
William F. Lloyd
Registrar of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland

(Listed in the margin next to this will the following)
Fiat
W. J. Higgins
Judge
Oct 2/29
administration granted
Malaha Mercer
on the 3rd day
of October 1929
Value of Estate
$700.00

 

 

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