Will of Edward Walsh
from Newfoundland will books volume 1 pages 96 & 97 probate year 1830.

In the Estate of
     Edward Walsh       deceased.

In the name of God Amen. I Edward Walsh being very weak and sick in body but in perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of the Almighty God that gave it to me, and my body to the earth to be buried in a Christian like burial by the Revd Edmond Doyle & Mr. Patrick Brazil whom I do appoint and nominate to be my executors, touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased Almighty God to bless me in this life, I give demise of the same in the following manner & form after paying all my lawful debts
first I give & bequeath unto my lawfull & wedded wife Cath. Walsh the sum of Twenty pounds now in my Possession and Eighty four pounds nine shillings and eleven pence half of my property remaining in the possession of Mr. Thomas Beck of St. Johns in the Island of Newfoundland together with all my furniture,
I bequeath to my son Edmond Walsh of Bede a Verb the sum of Twenty pounds remaing in my Possession and the sum of Eighty four pounds nine shillings & eleven pence the other half of my property remaining on the hands of the aforesaid Mr. Thomas Beck. Edward his x mark Walsh.
Signed under my hand and seal in the presence of two witnesses, viz. the Revd Edmond Doyle and Mr. Patrick Brazil, on the 31^st of March 1830. Edmond Doyle   Patrick Brazil.

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