Description Will of John A. McPhail of Pictou, NS

(Handwritten)

Estate of John A. McPhail late of Pictou, Master Mariner, deceased, Testate

Copy of Will for the Registrar of Deeds

I, John A. McPhail of Pictou in the County of Pictou , Master Mariner do hereby make publish and declare this to be my last Will and testament hereby revoking all wills by me heretofore made.

I give devise and bequeath al and Singular my real estate and personal property of whatsoever nature and kind and wheresoever Situate  to m y wife Jessie McPhail.

I appoint my said wife Jessie McPhail and my brother Edmund McPhail Executrix and Executor respectively of this my Will.

In witness whereof I have hereunto my hand Subscribed and Set this Seventh day of October A.D. One thousand eight hundred and ninety two.

Signed            John A. McPhail

Signed Sealed published and declared by the above named John A. McPhail as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request in his presence, and in the presence of each other and have Subscribed our names as witnesses hereunto. 

Signed       ----  Julia C. MacQuarrie
    "               ---- Jno. U. Ross

County of Pictou Sf
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 John A. McPhail, late of Pictou in the County of Pictou, Master Mariner, 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 2nd. day of February A.D. 1894.
John H. Lane  Registrar

To the Registrar of Deeds for the County of Pictou

Stamp

Province of Nova Scotia, Registrar of Deeds
Office, County of Pictou, 9th May  1894  I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at 11 AM of the above day in Wills Book 2, pages 332-3 on the certificate of John H. Lane Rgr.

John Yorston Registrar