Will of Joseph Power
from Newfoundland will books volume 7 pages 253-254 probate year 1903

The last will of Joseph Power late of
St. John's, Planter, deceased.

      This is the last will and testament of me Joseph Power at present of St. John's in the Island of Newfoundland, planter, made the twenty second day of September Anno Domini nineteen hundred and two. I hereby revoke and annul all previous wills made by me. I appoint E. P. Morris executor of this my will. I give, devise and bequeath to my said executor for the sole use and benefit of my wife during her life all the property of every description of which I shall die possessed and consisting principally of the house I now live in and the furniture therein, the house next door to known as the "Shed" the house next door to the shed, being a double house with four tenements and the house opposite the gas-house to have and to hold the said property to my said executor to devote the proceeds or rents from same toward the maintenance and support of my said wife during her life. On the death of my said wife the proceeds of my said property shall be devoted by my executor in perpetuity for the celebration of masses for the repose of my soul and that of my wife

Whatever moneys of which I shall die possessed and which shall come into the hands of my said executor I direct that he pay over the following sums to the following parties

• To the Reverend M. Slattery for Mount Cashel $100.00
• To the St. Michael's Orphanage the sum of $100.00
• To the Sisters of Charity, Mercy Convent, Military Road and Littledale $50 each
• To my godson John Fitzgerald $60.
• May Cummins now living in my house $400.00
• Also to Miss Cummins for nursing me. $100.00
• To the poor of St. John's to be distributed by my executor $100.00
• To the purchase of a headstone and railing around my burying grave plot the sum of $200.00
• To Jane Brown $100.00
• To John Brown $100.00
• To Miss Mary Franey $30.00
• And for my funeral expenses $100.00
• And to Reverend Father McDermott, St. Patricks Parish $40.
• Any balance that may remain in the hands of my said executor after the payment of the above sums shall be devoted by him in like manner to the poor of St. John's.

I devise that my executor shall expend the $200.00 due me by M. Coady towards the restoration and repair of the house or shed adjoining the house I now live in.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name at St. John's aforesaid the day and year first above written. Joseph Power
Signed by the said testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses the same having been first read over and explained and the words "during her life" and "pay" having been first interlined on the first page of this will and also the words "also to Mistress Cummins for nursing me $100" and to Reverend Father McDermott St. Patricks Presbytery $40.
John Fitzgerald.- Morris Deady. - E.P. Morris.

This is a codicil to my will bearing date the 22 day of September A.D. 1902. I revoke cancel and annul those two bequests in my said will namely the one hundred dollars to James Brown and the one hundred dollars to John Brown also I revoke and annul the bequest to my wife of the house near the gas house or opposite the same. I give devise and bequeath the sum of forty dollars to be equally divided between Mary & Ann Cummins residing in Boston relations of my wife I give devise and bequeath the house opposite the gas house to my niece May Cummins to have and to hold the same for ever. In all other respects I confirm my said will.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name to this the said codicil this 26 day of January A.D. 1903. Signed by the said Testator as a codicil to his last will & testament in our presence at his request and in the presence of each other in his presence having been first read over and explained have affixed our names as witnesses. Joseph Power. E. P. Morris. Alma Ross

      I certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the last will and codicil of Joseph Power

D. M. Browning
Registrar

(Listed in the margin next to this will the following)
Fiat
9^th Feby 03
Johnson J.
Letters of probate
granted on the 11^th
Feby 03 to
E. P. Morris the Exor
Est. Sworn at
$3700