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Will of Arthur W. Pitts from Newfoundland will books volume 5 pages 15-17 probate year 1885 Last Will and Testament of This is the last Will and Testament of me Arthur
W. Pitts of St. John's Accountant I bequeath the whole of my estate
real and personal to my Executor hereinafter named subject to and in trust
to pay therefrom the following charges and legacies,,, I desire that all my
just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses shall first be paid and discharged.
I bequeath to my sister Selina Dickinson two hundred and fifty
pounds currency for her sole and separate use. I
bequeath to my sister Mary Julia Ayre two hundred and fifty
pounds currency for her sole and separate use. I
bequeath to my sister Lydia
Gertrude Ayre two hundred and fifty pounds currency for her sole and
separate use. I bequeath to my sister Fanny
Cochrane Pitts three hundred and fifty pounds currency ( £ 350)
for her sole and separate use. I bequeath to
my sister in law Augusta?? Louisa Pitts widow of my late brother George
Pitts one hundred pounds sterling for her sole and separate use. I
bequeath to my sister in law Mary Pitts wife of my brother James
S. Pitts two
hundred and fifty pounds currency for her sole and separate use.
I bequeath to the Four children of my late brother George A. Pitts the sum
of fifty pounds sterling each which amount I desire shall be deposited in the
Government Savings Bank at interest for each of them and shall be paid to each
with the accumulated interest upon his or her attaining the age of twenty one
years. In the event of the death of any of said children before attaining twenty
one years the said legacy to him or her shall go to the survivors of them equally
and be paid to them upon attaining twenty one years.
In the event of all four children dying before attaining twenty one years of
age I desire that the amount bequeathed to them as aforesaid shall be equally
divided among the male children of my sisters Selina Mary Julia Lydia
Gertrude and Fanny Cochrane who shall be living at the time of the death of the last
survivor of the said four children. I bequeath
to William Ford Dickinson the sum of fifty pounds currency. I bequeath to Minnie
Dickinson daughter of my sister Selina Dickinson twenty five pounds currency.
I bequeath to the trustees of the New Wesleyan College now in course of erection
the sum of one hundred pounds currency which sum I desire shall be safely invested
and the interest therefrom given annually as a prize to one of the Boys attending
the said College who shall write the best essay on any good English subject.
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