Description Will of Abram A. Stramberg of Cape John, Pictou Co., NS

(Handwritten)

Will of Abram A Stramberg, deceased

Certified Copy of Will for Reg of Deeds Pictou

In the name of God, Amen.

I Abram A. Stramberg of Cape John in the County of Pictou Province of Nova Scotia and Dominion of Canada being in usual health and Sound in mind and memory thanks be to God, for his great goodness, and calling to mind that it is appointed for all me to die do hereby thus make my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to Say.

First of all I commend my Spirit to Almighty God who gave it, and my body to the dust whence it came to be interred after the manner of a decent Christina burial.

And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me I bequeath and dispose of the same in the manner following that is to say

I order that all my outstanding debts be collected and jut debts together with the expenses of my decease and funeral be paid out of my personal property.

I give and bequeath to my late wife's Sisters Mary McKay and Annie McKay jointly the farm on which I now reside with the appurtenances thereto belonging together with any of my personal property if nay remains after the expenses are paid.

I constitute and appoint my friend John W. McLean and the above named Mary McKay and Annie McKay joint executors and executrix of this my last Will and Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and set my Seal on this the eighth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven.

Signed          Abram A. Stramberg   (L.S.)

Signed, Sealed pronounced and declared the presence of each other

   Robert Grant

   Osmond McCunn

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 Abram A. Stramberg late of Cape John in the County of Pictou Farmer deceased which said will was duly admitted to Probate in said Court at Pictou on the 12^th. day of February 1901.

Witness my hand at Pictou this 12^th. day of February 1901.

John D. MacLeod Registrar

Stamp

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 331, 332 on the certificate of John D. MacLeod Reg

John Yorston Registrar.