Description Will of Robert Matheson of Pictou, NS

(Handwritten)

Estate of Robert Matheson late of Pictou, Esquire, deceased, Testate

Copy of Will for the Registrar of Deeds

This is the last Will and Testament of me, Robert Matheson of Pictou in the County of Pictou and Province of Nova Scotia, Prothonotary, make this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand and eight hundred and ninety four, as Follows.

I Give, devise and bequeath all my messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments and all my household furniture, ready money, mortgages and other securities for money, money secured by life Assurance, goods and chattels and all my other real and personal state & effects whatsoever and wheresoever situate, unto my sisters Mary Matheson and Emily Matheson their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, in equal shares to and for their and each of their Sole use and benefit according to the nature and quality thereof respectively duly set only to the payment of my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses

And I appoint my said sisters Mary Matheson and Emily Matheson Executrices of this my Will and hereby revoking all other wills. I declare this only to be my last Will and Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year above written.

Signed Robert Matheson L.S.

In Presence of us,

Signed ---- Daniel McDonald
" ---- Agnes Fraser

Signed, Sealed, Published and declared by the said Robert Matheson the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who at his request in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses to the due execution thereof.

Signed ---- Daniel McDonald
" ---- Agnes Fraser

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 Robert Matheson, late of Pictou in the County of Pictou, Prothonotary, 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 30th. day of June A.D. 1894. (words are scratched out)
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, 28th July 1894 I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at 2:30 PM of the above day in Wills 2, pages 349 & 350 on the certificate of John H. Lane Rgr.

John Yorston Registrar