Description Will of John Duncan Cameron of Scotch Hill, Pictou Co., NS

(Typed)

Will of John D Cameron, deceased

Certified Copy for Reg of Deed

s I, John Duncan Cameron of Scotch Hill in the County of Pictou, farmer, do hereby make this my last will and testament.

After payments of all my debts and funeral and testamentary expenses including the coat of a suitable monument

I give and bequeath one hundred dollars unto Jennie May Cameron, daughter of Sarah Jane Cameron. I give devise and bequeath the residue of my estate real and personal unto Arthur Chambers Cameron son of said Sarah Jane Cameron.

I appoint John Dunbar and William McQuarrie both of Scotch Hill aforesaid executors of this will. And whereas I am sole executor of the last will and testament of said Sarah Jane Cameron, deceased, dated the twenty-fourth day of June A.D., 1899 and duly proved and registered in the Court of Probate for the said County of Pictou, and whereas by the said last will and testament I am constituted guardian of her three children, said Jennie May Cameron, and Arthur Chambers Cameron, and Everett Arnold Cameron, and also trustee of her estate; and whereas the said estate is not yet fully administered, and the said Arthur Chambers Cameron and Jennie May Cameron are still infants: I do hereby appoint and constitute the said John Dunbar and William McQuarrie and the survivor of them, in succession to me, to be executors of under and in respect of the said last will and testament of said Sarah Jane Cameron, and guardians of the said infants Arthur Chamber Cameron and Jennie May Cameron, and trustees of the said estate of Sarah Jane Cameron; and I do hereby devise and bequeath unto the said John Dunbar and William McQuarrie and the survivor of them as such executors, guardians and trustees, all of said estate, real and personal property, of said Sarah Jane Cameron in trust for the purposes of and under the terms of the said last will and testament of said Sarah Jane Cameron.

I revoke all wills by me at any time heretofore made.

In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand on this twenty-fourth day of September A.D. 1912.

(signed) John D. Cameron

Signed executed and published by the testator, John Duncan Cameron, as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us witnesses who at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

(signed) J.W. MacKay

(signed) Chas. E. Tanner

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 John Duncan Cameron late of Scotch Hill in the County of Pictou Farmer deceased which said will was duly admitted to Probate in said Court at Pictou this 26th day of October AD 1912

 . Witness my hand at Pictou aforesaid this 26th day of October AD 1912. John D. MacLeod Registrar

Stamp - PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA, REGISTRAR OF DEEDS Office, County of Pictou, MAR 12, 1913 I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at 2 PM of the above day in Book 5 page 124 on the certificate of John D. MacLeod Reg John Yorston Registrar.