Description Will of Jardine MacLean of Hopewell, Pictou Co., NS

(Handwritten)

Will of Jardine MacLean, deceased

Certified Copy of Will for Reg of Deeds Pictou

I Jardine MacLean of Hopewell in the County of Pictou, Tanner, do hereby declare this to be my Last Will and Testament.

I give devise and bequeath all my property both real and personal and of every kind and description of which I shall die seized or possessed or to which my executors hereinafter named shall be entitled after my decease to my beloved wife Catherine MacLean her heirs executors and administrators absolutely subject however to the conditions hereinafter named.

That is to say – provided that if my said wife shall at any time marry again then in that event my said wife will be entitled only to such share or part of my estate as will be equivalent to dower or thirds in or out of my said estate of equal amount to that which she my said wife could have claimed thereout in the event of my having died intestate and in that event namely her marriage all the remainder of my estate after the payment to my said wife of her legal dower or thirds I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved children Harlan, Laura, Janet, Warren, Howard Annie, Harriet and Angus share and share alike absolutely

My executors hereinafter named shall be at liberty from time to time in their discretion to use the interest or income arising from my said estate and also the principal thereof or such part thereof as in their discretion may be necessary for the support of my said wife and children and the education of my said children.

I hereby direct that my interest or share in the business of the firm J.J. McLean & Sons be not called in or demanded from the said firm by my said executors until after expiration of three years from the date of my decease and after the expiration of said period of three years it will be in the discretion of my said executors whether my said shares or interest or any part thereof shall longer remain in the business or be withdrawn therefrom.

My said executors or any of them are both to be held responsible for the default of each other or for voluntary losses.

I nominate and appoint George W. McLean of Hopewell, Farmer, George Patterson of New Glasgow, Barrister, and James A. Reid of Green Hill to be executors of this my last Will.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal at Pictou this 26th. day of October 1901.

Signed Jardine McLean (L.S.)

Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Jardine McLean the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us both present at the same time, who at his request and in his presence have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

Signed John H. Sinclair
Signed John J. McLean

Province of Nova Scotia
County of Pictou S.S.
In the Court of Probate of Wills

I John D. McLeod Registrar of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing paper writing is a true copy of the last Will and Testament of Jardine McLean late of Hopewell in the County of Pictou Tanner deceased which said will was duly admitted to Probate in said Court at Pictou on the 15th. day of November 1901.

Witness my hand at Pictou this 15th. day of November 1901.
John D. MacLeod Registrar

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA, REGISTRAR OF DEEDS
Office, County of Pictou, JAN 21 1902 I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at 3 PM of the above day in Book 3 page 333,334 on the certificate of John D. MacLeod Reg

John Yorston Registrar.