Description Will of Alexander Brown of Pictou, NS

(Handwritten)

Copy of Will - late Alexander Brown Registrar of Deeds

This is the last Will and testament of me, Alexander Brown of Pictou, in the County of Pictou and Province of Nova Scotia, Labourer. I devise and bequeath all the real and personal estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of me decease unto Helen Brown of Pictou, my wife to have and to hold the same unto her the said Helen brown, her heirs and assigns forever.

And I appoint the said Helen Brown the executrix of this my Will, hereby revoking all other testamentary writings.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord, One Thousand,

Eight Hundred and Seventy four.

Signed Alexander Brown Signed by the said Testator Alexander Brown, as and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his sight and presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses.

Signed R.Macdonald P.P.

Signed G.H. Elliott

Being duly read and understood.

County of Pictou

In the Court of Probate of Wills

I do hereby certify that the foregoing instrument consisting of one page, is an exact and literal copy of the last Will and Testament of Alexander Brown late of Pictou in the County of Pictou, deceased, testate, which has been duly filed and admitted to Probate in accordance with the practice of the Court.

Given under my hand at Pictou this sixteenth day of April A.D. 1880 John H. Lane Registrar To John Ferguson Esqr. Registrar of Deeds for the County of Pictou

Province of Nova Scotia Registrars Office Pictou 3rd of May 1880 I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at 11 Am of the above day in the Registration of Wills Book No 1 page 40 on the certificate of John H. Lane Registrar

John Ferguson Rgr.